期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
卷 17, 期 2, 页码 451-458出版社
GH ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIV IASI
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2018.046
关键词
chemical oxygen demand; earthen plate; microbial fuel cell; power density; proton exchange membrane
资金
- Charles Parsons Energy Research Award through Science Foundation Ireland
The performance of microbial fuel cells (MFC) employing an earthen plate as a membrane separator is compared to that using Nafion 117 in an identical up-flow dual-chambered cylindrical cell configuration. The MFC configuration is of a cylindrical outer cathode chamber separated by the membrane from a concentric rectangular inner anode chamber. The fuel cells, operated under continuous mode at hydraulic retention time of 12 hr, achieved average chemical oxygen demand removal efficiency of 60% and 48%, for the Nafion and earthen plate separators, respectively. The microbial fuel cells based on the earthen plate separator generated slightly lower average (28%) and maximum (48%) power densities than Nafion separator which is likely due to the higher membrane resistance. The earthen plate separator is 99% cheaper than the Nafion membrane, showing promise as an alternate separator for application to MFC technology.
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