Archiv:Microbial fuel cell

Motivation

In the last years (microbial) fuel cell technology advanced significantly, involving air cathode and single chamber designs and utilizing low-cost materials as charcoal for the anode. Especially for farmers (having a lot of animals dung), or others that have bigger animals in the neighbourhood, this could prove valuable.

Requirements

• Simplicity.
• Scalability.
• Material affordability before efficiency. (Use of easy to get materials for the electrodes!)
• (tdb) Option of using this in combination to biothermanl energie (two different processes emerging from the same source! one being transformation of heat to electricity, the other direct electricity harvesting).

Prototype 1 - MFC

• single chamber
• cathode: charcoal
• anode: stainless steel

Design

This is up to come in the next weeks if everything works as expected.

Build

This will not be accomplished too qickly. Don't expect it before fall.

Further reading

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