Title
Vicia faba crop residues for sustainable electricity generation using a sludge-based microbial fuel cell
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Mamani-Asqui L.J.
Peredo-Berlanga L.N.
Salazar-Banda G.R.
Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa
Publisher(s)
Assoc. of Chemists and Chemical Engineers of Croatia
Abstract
Microbial fuel cells (MFC) simultaneously degrade organic substrates and generate electricity in a sustainable and eco-friendly way. Here, we built a 4-unit MFC and studied the efficiency of MFC at different conditions, including pH, substrate concentration of Vicia faba agricultural wastes with exoelectrogenic bacteria P. aeruginosa. The exoelectrogenic bacteria were obtained from industrial effluents and used to inoculate the MFCs. The optimized conditions in terms of yielding maximum potential of 802 mV, yielding maximum power density of 283 mW m-2 were reported at a substrate concentration of 6 g L-1 of V. faba waste and pH of 5.5, corresponding to a current density 1255.93 mA m-2. Using exoelectrogenic bacteria from industrial effluents and agricultural wastes resulted in efficient MFC. Thus, the developed MFCs using V. faba agricultural wastes can be used in rural areas that have limited access to electricity, by reusing agricultural wastes and concomitant electricity generation.
Start page
289
End page
296
Volume
34
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85101912028
Source
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly
ISSN of the container
03529568
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (grant TP-04-2019-UNSA) for the financial support of this work. GRSB also thanks the Brazilian National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development – CNPq (grant 305438/2018-2) and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel – CAPES (grant 001).
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