Simultaneous power generation and waste water treatment using microbial fuel cell

Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) is one of the major pollutants in Malaysia. Conventional aerobic and anaerobic treatment of wastewater needs more energy to operate it. In this context, treatment of wastewater using Microbial Fuel Cell seems to be promising technology because it reduces operational ene...

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Main Author:	Lin, Choo Quan
Format:	Undergraduates Project Papers
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	TP Chemical technology
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7175/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7175/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7175/1/Simultaneous_power_generation_and_waste_water_treatment.pdf

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spelling	ump-71752015-03-03T09:34:38Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7175/ Simultaneous power generation and waste water treatment using microbial fuel cell Lin, Choo Quan TP Chemical technology Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) is one of the major pollutants in Malaysia. Conventional aerobic and anaerobic treatment of wastewater needs more energy to operate it. In this context, treatment of wastewater using Microbial Fuel Cell seems to be promising technology because it reduces operational energy requirement and shows efficient treatment too. This research focused on simultaneous power generation and wastewater treatment by using MFC. The objectives of the study are to study the performance of MFC using Polyacrylonitrile carbon felt (PACF) as electrode and to study the effect of surface area of electrode on coulombic efficiency and Chemcial Oxygen Demand (COD) removal efficiency of MFC. POME was used to harvest energy and reduce COD from complex POME. Different size of PACF was used as electrode for all the experiments. The data collection mode was through observing and recording the voltage, current and power produced by the MFC. The findings were analyzed to obtain optimum power density, coulumbic efficiency and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) removal efficiency. Power density, current density and coulombic efficiency of MFC with POME were calculated. Comparing the results obtained and calculated, MFC with PACF surface area (34.79cm2) showed the highest value for maximum power density of about 76.2133 mW/m2, coulumbic effiency of 0.9561% and COD removal efficiency of 45.6%. 2013 Undergraduates Project Papers NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7175/1/Simultaneous_power_generation_and_waste_water_treatment.pdf Lin, Choo Quan (2013) Simultaneous power generation and waste water treatment using microbial fuel cell. Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang. http://iportal.ump.edu.my/lib/item?id=chamo:74978&theme=UMP2
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description	Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) is one of the major pollutants in Malaysia. Conventional aerobic and anaerobic treatment of wastewater needs more energy to operate it. In this context, treatment of wastewater using Microbial Fuel Cell seems to be promising technology because it reduces operational energy requirement and shows efficient treatment too. This research focused on simultaneous power generation and wastewater treatment by using MFC. The objectives of the study are to study the performance of MFC using Polyacrylonitrile carbon felt (PACF) as electrode and to study the effect of surface area of electrode on coulombic efficiency and Chemcial Oxygen Demand (COD) removal efficiency of MFC. POME was used to harvest energy and reduce COD from complex POME. Different size of PACF was used as electrode for all the experiments. The data collection mode was through observing and recording the voltage, current and power produced by the MFC. The findings were analyzed to obtain optimum power density, coulumbic efficiency and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) removal efficiency. Power density, current density and coulombic efficiency of MFC with POME were calculated. Comparing the results obtained and calculated, MFC with PACF surface area (34.79cm2) showed the highest value for maximum power density of about 76.2133 mW/m2, coulumbic effiency of 0.9561% and COD removal efficiency of 45.6%.
format	Undergraduates Project Papers
author	Lin, Choo Quan
author_facet	Lin, Choo Quan
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title	Simultaneous power generation and waste water treatment using microbial fuel cell
title_short	Simultaneous power generation and waste water treatment using microbial fuel cell
title_full	Simultaneous power generation and waste water treatment using microbial fuel cell
title_fullStr	Simultaneous power generation and waste water treatment using microbial fuel cell
title_full_unstemmed	Simultaneous power generation and waste water treatment using microbial fuel cell
title_sort	simultaneous power generation and waste water treatment using microbial fuel cell
publishDate	2013
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7175/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7175/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7175/1/Simultaneous_power_generation_and_waste_water_treatment.pdf
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