TY - JOUR
T1 - Characteristics of a single chamber microbial fuel cell equipped with a low cost membrane
AU - Hernández-Flores, G.
AU - Poggi-Varaldo, H. M.
AU - Solorza-Feria, O.
AU - Ponce-Noyola, M. T.
AU - Romero-Castañón, T.
AU - Rinderknecht-Seijas, N.
AU - Galíndez-Mayer, J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/12/28
Y1 - 2015/12/28
N2 - The aims of this research were: (i) to develop and test a new, low cost, organic membrane (LCM) in an air-cathode, single chamber microbial fuel cell (MFC), and (ii) to compare its characteristics with those of an MFC equipped with a Nafion® 117 membrane (NF). The internal resistances (Rint) were 112 and 110 Ω using LCM and NF, respectively, whereas the maximum volumetric powers (PV,max) were 2146 and 14,246 mW/m3 for LCM and NF, respectively. The relatively low value of Rint of the MFC equipped with LCM was encouraging. Furthermore, the Rint of the NF-equipped MFC was of the same order. PV,max delivered with LCM was 15% of that with NF. However, the cost ratio LCM/NF was very low, ($14/m2)/($1733/m2) ∼ 0.8%. These results point out to a trade-off between sacrificing some power output of the cell (85%) but achieving outstanding savings on membrane costs (99.2%).
AB - The aims of this research were: (i) to develop and test a new, low cost, organic membrane (LCM) in an air-cathode, single chamber microbial fuel cell (MFC), and (ii) to compare its characteristics with those of an MFC equipped with a Nafion® 117 membrane (NF). The internal resistances (Rint) were 112 and 110 Ω using LCM and NF, respectively, whereas the maximum volumetric powers (PV,max) were 2146 and 14,246 mW/m3 for LCM and NF, respectively. The relatively low value of Rint of the MFC equipped with LCM was encouraging. Furthermore, the Rint of the NF-equipped MFC was of the same order. PV,max delivered with LCM was 15% of that with NF. However, the cost ratio LCM/NF was very low, ($14/m2)/($1733/m2) ∼ 0.8%. These results point out to a trade-off between sacrificing some power output of the cell (85%) but achieving outstanding savings on membrane costs (99.2%).
KW - Low cost membrane
KW - Microbial fuel cell
KW - Nafion 117 membrane
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.10.024
DO - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.10.024
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:84959270195
SN - 0360-3199
VL - 40
SP - 17380
EP - 17387
JO - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
JF - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
IS - 48
ER -
