PERFOMANCE OPTIMISATION OF MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS FOR SUSTAINABLE CLEAN ENERGY GENERATION WITH THE APPLICATION OF COW DUNG
Abstract
The present work deals with the fabrication of a laboratory scale double
chambered microbial fuel cell (MFC) to generate electricity from cow dung. The
experiment was performed to generate electricity from locally available cow dung as
substrate using the fabricated MFC, The device was operated at anaerobic condition at
varying time duration of 6 days. PVC pipe was used to make a salt bridge using
agarose. The experimental readings were recorded at an interval of 1 hour. The
performance was evaluated by characterizing the generated voltage. current. and
temperature. It was observed that despite of high impedance of the substrate. all the
general parameters have shown maximum values.
Keywords: Cow dung. Microbes. Microbial fuel cell. Renewable
sources
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