Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 190, Issue -, Pages 458-465Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.02.103
Keywords
Microbial fuel cell; Renewable energy; Palm oil mill effluent; Anaerobic POME sludge; Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Funding
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia under the Research University Grant (RUG) [vot 07H47]
- UTM PhD Zamalah scholarship
- Ministry of Education of Malaysia (MyBrain15)
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A double-chambered membrane microbial fuel cell (MFC) was constructed to investigate the potential use of natural microflora anaerobic palm oil mill effluent (POME) sludge and pure culture bacteria isolated from anaerobic POME sludge as inoculum for electricity generation. Sterilized final discharge POME was used as the substrate with no addition of nutrients. MFC operation using natural microflora anaerobic POME sludge showed a maximum power density and current density of 85.11 mW/m(2) and 91.12 mA/m(2) respectively. Bacterial identification using 16S rRNA analysis of the pure culture isolated from the biofilm on the anode MFC was identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain ZH1. The electricity generated in MFC using P. aeruginosa strain ZH1 showed maximum power density and current density of 451.26 mW/m(2) and 654.90 mA/m(2) respectively which were five times higher in power density and seven times higher in current density compared to that of MFC using anaerobic POME sludge. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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