A terrestrial microbial fuel cell setup and its experimental study Online publication date: Thu, 29-Jan-2015
by Daxing Zhang; Yubing Ge; Weidong Wang; Yongxian Guo
International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems (IJAMECHS), Vol. 6, No. 1, 2014
Abstract: Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) can generate electric current while treating waste water. Therefore, MFCs are considered as one of the most promising alternative renewable energy sources, especially for remote monitoring applications. Aquatic microbial fuel cells (AMFCs) must be inoculated and work in water environment. Terrestrial microbial fuel cells (TMFCs) can overcome the shortcoming and extend the application fields of MFCs. A TMFC experimental setup is proposed and the performance of the proposed TMFC is tested. The open circuit voltage (OCV) of the proposed TMFC is about 0.75 V and the output power density is about 3 mW/m², which are normal values in previous researches of AMFCs. The relationship between environment temperature, soil water content and the output power density of the proposed TMFC are tested by experiments. Experiment results show that TMFCs are one of alternative power sources for small electronic devices.
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