Improving the power performance of microbial fuel cells using UV light

Munaf Salih Majeed; Ban Faisal Rasheed; Zaid Ali Hussein; Hawraa Abdulhadi Salman

doi:10.30574/ijsra.2024.12.2.1588

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Improving the power performance of microbial fuel cells using UV light

Munaf Salih Majeed ¹, Ban Faisal Rasheed ¹, Zaid Ali Hussein ^{1, *} and Hawraa Abdulhadi Salman ²

1 Department of Biomass Energy , Al-Nahrain Renewable Energy Research Center, Al-Nahrain University, Jadria, Baghdad, Iraq.
2 Department of Computer Networks Engineering, College of Information Engineering, Al-Nahrain University, Jadria, Baghdad, Iraq.

Research Article

International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2024, 12(02), 2670–2674.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2024.12.2.1588
DOI url: https://doi.org/10.30574/ijsra.2024.12.2.1588

Publication history

Received on 17 July 2024; revised on 22 August 2024; accepted on 25 August 2024

Abstract

This study investigates the digestion of cow dung (CD) for biogas production at laboratory scales. The study was carried out through anaerobic fermentation using cow dung as substrate. The digester was operated at ambient temperatures of 39.5 °C for a period of 10 days. The effect of iron powder in controlling the production of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been tested. The optimum concentration of iron powder was 4g/L with the highest biogas production. A UV light and Q – swatch Nd: YAG laser has been used to mix and homogenize the components of one of the six digesters and accelerate digestion. At the end of digestion, all digestions effluent was subjected to 5 laser pulses with 250mJ/pules to dispose waste biomass.

Keywords

UV light; Biogas production; Cow dung; Laser enhances digestion; Renewable energy production; Hydrogen sulfide control.

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Munaf Salih Majeed, Ban Faisal Rasheed, Zaid Ali Hussein and Hawraa Abdulhadi Salman. Improving the power performance of microbial fuel cells using UV light. International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2024, 12(02), 2670–2674. https://doi.org/10.30574/ijsra.2024.12.2.1588

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