Performance of electrical energy monitoring data acquisition system for  plant-based microbial fuel cell

Wilgince Apollon; Alejandro Isabel  Luna-Maldonado; Juan Antonio  Vidales-Contreras; Humberto  Rodríguez-Fuentes; Juan Florencio  Gómez-Leyva; Sathish-Kumar  Kamaraj; Víctor Arturo  Maldonado-Ruelas; Raúl Arturo  Ortiz-Medina

doi:10.18006/2022.10(2).387.395

Authors

Wilgince Apollon Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y de los Alimentos, Francisco Villa S/N, Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, 66050, México
Alejandro Isabel Luna-Maldonado Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y de los Alimentos, Francisco Villa S/N, Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, 66050, México
Juan Antonio Vidales-Contreras Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y de los Alimentos, Francisco Villa S/N, Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, 66050, México
Humberto Rodríguez-Fuentes Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y de los Alimentos, Francisco Villa S/N, Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, 66050, México
Juan Florencio Gómez-Leyva TecNM-Instituto Tecnológico de Tlajomulco (ITTJ), Laboratorio de Biología Molecular, Km 10 Carretera a San Miguel Cuyutlán, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, C.P. 45640, México
Sathish-Kumar Kamaraj TecNM-Instituto Tecnológico El Llano Aguascalientes (ITEL), Laboratorio de Medio Ambiente Sostenible, Km.18 Carretera Aguascalientes-San Luis Potosí, El Llano Ags., C.P. 20330, México
Víctor Arturo Maldonado-Ruelas Universidad Politécnica de Aguascalientes (UPA), Departamento de Posgrado e Investigación, Calle Paseo San Gerardo No. 207, Fracc. San Gerardo, Aguascalientes, Ags. C.P. 20342, México.
Raúl Arturo Ortiz-Medina Universidad Politécnica de Aguascalientes (UPA), Departamento de Posgrado e Investigación, Calle Paseo San Gerardo No. 207, Fracc. San Gerardo, Aguascalientes, Ags. C.P. 20342, México.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18006/2022.10(2).387.395

Keywords:

Data acquisition system, Open circuit voltage, Polarization curve, Power density, Stevia rebaudiana

Abstract

Plant microbial fuel cell (Plant-MFC) is an emerging technology that uses the metabolic activity of electrochemically active bacteria (EABs) to continue the production of bioelectricity. Since its invention and to date, great efforts have been made for its application both in real-time and large-scale. However, the construction of platforms or systems for automatic voltage monitoring has been insufficiently studied. Therefore, this study aimed to develop an automatic real-time voltage data acquisition system, which was coupled with an ATMEGA2560 connected to a personal computer. Before the system operation started it was calibrated to obtain accurate data. During this experiment, the power generation performance of two types of reactors i.e. (i) Plant-MFC and (ii) control microbial fuel cell (C-MFC), was evaluated for 15 days. The Plant-MFC was planted with an herbaceous perennial plant (Stevia rebaudiana), electrode system was placed close to the plant roots at the depth of 20 cm. The results of the study have indicated that the Plant-MFC, was more effective and achieved higher bioelectricity generation than C-MFC. The maximum voltage reached with Plant-MFC was 850 mV (0.85 V), whereas C-MFC achieved a maximum voltage of 762 mV (0.772 V). Furthermore, the same reactor demonstrated a maximum power generation of 66 mW m_¯²on 10 min of polarization, while a power density with C-MFC was equal to 13.64 mW m_¯². S.rebaudiana showed a great alternative for power generation. In addition, the monitoring acquisition system was suitable for obtaining data in real-time. However, more studies are recommended to enhance this type of system.

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