Abstract
Depletion of fossil fuel increased direction towards renewalable energy sources. Microbial Fuel Cell substitute technology for converting waste water from industry effluent as well meet the requirement for environmental problem. Study was made to treat the distillery effluent as substrate in mfc for bio-energy considering effect of oxygen flow rate, pH and substrate concentration. Different organic load were used in mfc for power generation and different oxygen flowrate for oxidation of proton coming from anode chamber effect of pH also keep consideration regading microbial growth of saccharomyces as a biocatalyst. The maximum power generation were observed at optimized condition of oxygen flow rate 250rpm, pH6 and substrate 60% (in form of organic load) at 0.9114 mW and current density 82.48 mA/m 2 .
Highlights
The growing demand for energy, depletion of fossil fuels and increasing concerns of environmental issues have challenged researchers to develop new technological processes to generate clean and sustainable energy mainly through the utilization of renewable energy sources (Cai et al, 2013; Jatoi et al, 2016c; Jatoi et al, 2018; Liu et al, 2014; Logan et al, 2006)
Effect of oxygen flowrate on power generation In mfc operation were successful with addition of air in proper into cathode chamber for oxidation proton coming through salt bridge from anode chamber
From 100-250ml/min of air flowrate tested and analyzed the maximum voltage generated at 250ml/min with 0.98 v/l. in fig 03 it highlights after 56 hour the line in decreasing way due to the changing in dissolved oxygen, because during running of mfc different parameter effect regarding dissolve oxygen becuas at that time temperature of cathode chamber increasing it decease the voltage generation
Summary
The growing demand for energy, depletion of fossil fuels and increasing concerns of environmental issues have challenged researchers to develop new technological processes to generate clean and sustainable energy mainly through the utilization of renewable energy sources (Cai et al, 2013; Jatoi et al, 2016c; Jatoi et al, 2018; Liu et al, 2014; Logan et al, 2006). Production of unmanageable quantity of sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants is the major issue in terms of capitaland environmental burden. This costs 60% of the total plant capital cost, and its disposal has become problematic due to stringent sludge disposal laws (Canales et al, 1994; Pilli et al, 2011; Xiao et al, 2013). In this study distillery effluent used as substrate in mfc for power generation
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