Modelling and Simulation of Double Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell: Cell Voltage, Power Density and Temperature Variation with Process Parameters
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar is a PhD student since December 2010. He did his B. Sc. Engg in 2008 and M. Tech. in 2010 in Chemical engineering.Prasenjit Mondal is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, since 2009. He has industrial, research and teaching experience for 11 years. He has completed good number of research and consultancy projects on energy and environmental area. Presently he is working on the production of energy from biomass including algae and wastes, gasification, pyrolysis, microbial fuel cells, water and waste water treatment. He has published one monograph and 32 papers in peer reviewed international journals. He is a reviewer of some reputed international journals.
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Shri Chand
Shri Chand is in teaching and research profession for almost 30 years. Presently, he is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India and has more than 100 research publications to his credit. Professor Shri Chand works extensively in the field of Environmental Engineering and Hydrocarbon Engineering.
Abstract
In the present paper steady state models of a double chamber glucose glutamic acid microbial fuel cell (GGA-MFC) under continuous operation have been developed and solved using Matlab 2007 software. The experimental data reported in a recent literature has been used for the validation of the models. The present models give prediction on the cell voltage and cell power density with 19–44% errors, which is less (up to 20%) than the errors on the prediction of cell voltage made in some recent literature for the same MFC where the effects of the difference in pH and ionic conductivity between anodic and cathodic solutions on cell voltage were not incorporated in model equations. It also describes the changes in anodic and cathodic chamber temperature due to the increase in substrate concentration and cell current density. Temperature profile across the membrane thickness has also been studied.
About the authors
Ravi Shankar is a PhD student since December 2010. He did his B. Sc. Engg in 2008 and M. Tech. in 2010 in Chemical engineering.
Prasenjit Mondal is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, since 2009. He has industrial, research and teaching experience for 11 years. He has completed good number of research and consultancy projects on energy and environmental area. Presently he is working on the production of energy from biomass including algae and wastes, gasification, pyrolysis, microbial fuel cells, water and waste water treatment. He has published one monograph and 32 papers in peer reviewed international journals. He is a reviewer of some reputed international journals.
Shri Chand is in teaching and research profession for almost 30 years. Presently, he is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India and has more than 100 research publications to his credit. Professor Shri Chand works extensively in the field of Environmental Engineering and Hydrocarbon Engineering.
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- Masthead
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Short Reports
- The German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Community – Successes and Failures
- Modelling and Simulation of Double Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell: Cell Voltage, Power Density and Temperature Variation with Process Parameters
- Raceways-based Production of Algal Crude Oil
- Future Conferences on Sustainable Energy Science and Policy 2013
