The effect of number and configuration of sediment microbial fuel cells on their performance in an open channel architecture

Abazarian, Elham; Gheshlaghi, Reza; Mahdavi, Mahmood Akhavan

doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.06.080

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“…Three reasons could account for the increased OCV and power loss: (a) ion conduction increased with unit number as it occurred between each two units; (b) the average internal resistance increased from 1500 to 5000 Ω when the unit number increased from one to five (Figure S4B); and (c) more unit showed electrode reversal when the unit number increased (data not shown). Abazarian et al also reported a higher power density with three stacked units than that with four units mainly caused by more reversal units …”

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“…The difference evidences that ion conduction caused power loss in hydraulically connected parallel stacks. A possible explanation is that most reported studies on MFC or MFC stacks used water/sediment‐exposed metal wires . These wires will cause electron shunt as the water or even sediment can deliver electrons to electron sinks .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Stacking multiple MFC units in serial or parallel mode is a promising method to increase the power output and environment tolerance compared with a single MFC . In contrast to the stacks of WMFCs, only few studies paid attention on SMFC stacks despite the unique fundamental processes and promising applications of SMFCs . In practical applications, SMFC stacks are generally deployed in hydraulically connected environments.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[10][11][12][13] In contrast to the stacks of WMFCs, only few studies paid attention on SMFC stacks despite the unique fundamental processes and promising applications of SMFCs. [14][15][16][17][18] In practical applications, SMFC stacks are generally deployed in hydraulically connected environments. The unit distance and unit number of a SMFC stack will be important because the ion-cross conduction, internal resistance, and substrate consumption may vary according to the unit distance and number.…”

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Effects of unit distance and number on sediment microbial fuel cell stacks for practical power supply

Yang

Yan²,

Lin

et al. 2019

Int J Energy Res

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Summary Sediment microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) can covert the biomass and organic matters in sediments into electricity. SMFC stack is an essential way for the application of SMFCs. The unit distance and number will be crucial for SMFC stacks applied in practical environments. This study showed that the power density of individual SMFC increased with the unit distance when compared with SMFCs with a small distance. For hydraulically connected serial stacks, increasing unit distance from 2 to 28 cm decreased the potential loss from 50.4% to 11.3%, but the power output did not increase with either unit distance or number of units due to higher internal resistance and electrode reversal. For hydraulically connected parallel stacks, increasing unit number from one to three multiplied the power output but no further power increase was observed with four and five units, indicating an optimal unit number (OUN) in parallel stacks due to ion conduction. Similar performance was shown when using SMFC stacks to power a light‐emitting diode and an environmental sensor. The results provide important information for improving the power and cost‐effectiveness of SMFC stacks.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effects of unit distance and number on sediment microbial fuel cell stacks for practical power supply

Yang

Yan²,

Lin

et al. 2019

Int J Energy Res

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“…Single-chamber SMFC has just an anode while the cathode is presented to the air, with electron acceptor O2. Graphite fibre Graphite fibre 0.664 (Xu et al, 2017 ) Carbon felt Carbon felt 0.158 (Abazarian et al, 2016) Graphite felt Iron 0.431 (Zhang et al, 2015) Iron Graphite felt 0.645 (Zhang et al, 2015) Carbon cloth Carbon cloth 0.250 (Majumder et al, 2014) copper zinc 1.…”

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Scale up sediment microbial fuel cell for powering Led lighting

Prasad

Tripathi

2018

Int. J. Renew. Energy Dev.

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Sediment microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) are expected to be utilized as a sustainable power source for remote environmental observing 30 day’s investigations of experiment to understand the long-term performance of SMFCs. The point of this investigation is to increase power generation, 8 individual sediment microbial fuel cells is stacked together either in series or in hybrid connection. Two combinations, of the hybrid connection, are proving to be the more effective one, step-up both the voltage and current of the framework, mutually. Polarization curve tests are done for series and hybrid connected sediment microbial fuel cell. The maximum study state voltage and current are obtained 8.150V and 435.25µA from series and 4.078V and 870.75µA hybrid connected SMFC. This study suggests that power of SMFC scale-up by connecting series and hybrid for practical use of the device.Article History: Received : September 26th 2017; Received: December 24th 2017; Accepted: January 4th 2018; Available onlineHow to Cite This Article: Prasad, J and Tripathi, R.K. (2018) Scale Up Sediment Microbial Fuel Cell For Powering Led Lighting. International Journal of Renewable Energy Development, 7(1), 53-58.https://doi.org/10.14710/ijred.7.1.53-58

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Progressive Transformation of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) to SedimentMFCs, PlantMFCs, and Constructed Wetland IntegratedMFCs

Mittal,

Dwivedi,

Gupta

et al. 2023

Microbial Electrochemical Technologies

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The effect of number and configuration of sediment microbial fuel cells on their performance in an open channel architecture

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

Effects of unit distance and number on sediment microbial fuel cell stacks for practical power supply

Effects of unit distance and number on sediment microbial fuel cell stacks for practical power supply

Scale up sediment microbial fuel cell for powering Led lighting

Progressive Transformation of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) to SedimentMFCs, PlantMFCs, and Constructed Wetland IntegratedMFCs

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