Role of ohmic resistance on the performance of pure culture microbial fuel cell

Author

Hosseinpour, Amin ; Mahdavi, Mahmood A. ; Gheshlaghi, Reza

Author_Institution

Dept. of Chem. Eng., Ferdowsi Univ. of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

fYear

2012

fDate

6-8 March 2012

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

161

Abstract

A cube two-chamber microbial fuel cell cultivated with Shewanella sp. was investigated and analyzed in terms of voltage generation behavior, maximum attainable power, internal resistance, and operational considerations from the beginning. The results indicated that with a certain architecture of the MFC utilized in this study, about 80% of the maximum power is achievable. Polarization curve were obtained in 10, 47, 116 days after start of operation, showed that there is reverse relationship between internal resistance and power density.

Keywords

electric resistance; microbial fuel cells; MFC; cube two-chamber microbial fuel cell; internal resistance; maximum attainable power; ohmic resistance; polarization curve; power density; pure culture microbial fuel cell; voltage generation behavior; Anodes; Biomembranes; Cathodes; Electricity; Fuel cells; Immune system; Microbial fuel cell; Shewanella; maximum power density; membrane fouling; ohmic resistance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation (ICREDG), 2012 Second Iranian Conference on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0663-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0664-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICREDG.2012.6190454

Filename

6190454