Room: Poster Area
Date: Monday, 24 June 2024
Time: 17:30 - 18:30 CEST
Session code 3AV.6
Local bioenergy solutions
Research and Development of a Sediment Microbial Fuel Cell Module for a Livestock Wastewater Treatment System
Short Introductive summary
The purpose of this research is to recover extra micro-electricity and biogas from the anaerobic digestion of livestock wastewater simultaneously. Our team initially applied basic two-chamber microbial fuel cell (MFC) reactors using piggery wastewater as fuel to characterize the patterns of micro-electricity from sediment microbial populations. Analytic results of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) show that the current of this MFC includes a direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC), which may be related to the behavior of the microbes studied in ours. Besides, pilot-scale (180-L polyethylene tanks) experiments were performed using a self-designed and self-assembled sediment MFC module (SMFC) with cattle wastewater as fuel in a cattle farm. All micro-electricity produced from the SMFCs was stored in 10 capacitors with inductors. For practical applications, integrating 10 serial/parallel capacitors and a DC-to-DC booster can charge a rechargeable battery for at least 2.5 min. Hopefully, the SMFC can be applied to support the electricity needed for DC aerators in the automatic piggery wastewater treatment soon.
Presenter
Jung-Jeng SU
National Taiwan University, Animal Science and Technology Dpt., TAIWAN
Presenter's biography
Pro. Jung-Jeng Su is a professor at National Taiwan University and received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Rutgers University in 1994. He joined the Pig Research Institute Taiwan in November 1994, mainly focusing on researching and developing livestock wastewater treatment technology.
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Co-authors:
J. Su, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, TAIWAN
L. Huang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TAIWAN
W. Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TAIWAN
Session reference: 3AV.6.16