Journal of Ecology of Health & Environment
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Journal of Ecology of Health & Environment


Volume
& Issue

Volume 6, Issue 1


Published
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January 1, 2018


Pages

9-13


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Article

Comparative Study on Two Different Up Scale Locally Available Construction Microbial Fuel Cells

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Authors

Saleh G. Ali Affiliation:
Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut branch, 71524, Egypt
, M. S. Mohammad* Affiliation:
Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut branch, 71524, Egypt
, Elsayed K. Bakhiet Affiliation:
Botany and Microbiology Department-Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt
and Sedky H. A. Hassan Affiliation:
Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, at New Valley Assiut University, El-Kharga, 71511, Egypt


Abstract

The present work deals with the up -scale double chamber microbial fuel cell (MFC) to generate electricity from wastewater. The experiment was performed to improve generation electricity from wastewater as the substrate using the MFC. There are two strategies for making large -scale MFCs for electricity generation and wastewater treatment: enlarging the size of an individual reactor and combining small MFC units as a stack cells. Present cells were constructed from locally available materials of clay pot . The performance of MFC was evaluated by characterizing the generated voltage, current, power and power densi ty. Large size MFC has given maximum voltage by 717 mV and COD removal 66.3%, while stack MFCs has given maximum voltage by 1185 mV and COD removal 75.5 %. Thus, this study has demonstrated that the MFC can be used for electrical energy generation and COD removal from wastewater with more efficiency and less cost.


Keywords

Renewable source, stack MFC, Microbes, clay pot.


Citation

Ali, S. G., Mohammad, M. S., Bakhiet, E. K., & Hassan, S. H. A. (2018). Comparative study on two different up scale locally available construction microbial fuel cells. Journal of Ecology of Health & Environment, 6(1), 9–13. https://doi.org/10.18576/jehe/060102

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