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Development of Home-built Portable & Sustainable Microbial Fuel Cell System from Living Plants

CSEF · 2023 Alternative Energy Honorable_mention Award

Lu Candace · 7

Overview

Current energy sources are not sustainable and harmful to our environment. There is an urgent need to find a renewable solution. Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is one of the promising solutions for low power electric power devices. The purpose of this project is to develop a portable and sustainable plant MFC system. In order to determine the key experimental factors that aided in the value of their output voltage, three experiments were designed and conducted based on my home-built plant MFC system: 1) Soil effect study; 2) S-MFC vs. P-MFC; and 3) Plant effect using a thermometer and multimeter to record the output voltage as a function of time. Experimental variables are type of soil, type of plants, type of electrode, moisture, temperature, sunlight, etc. Three different types of soil are; mountain soil, river soil, and park soil. Three different types of plants are; spike dracaena, daisies, and butter lettuce.

Source coverage

This record comes from a published award list, not a complete project archive. Its abstract comes from CSEF's public project showcase as archived by the Internet Archive before judging (https://web.archive.org/web/20230401224130/https://ca-csef.zfairs.com/showcase/ShowcaseInfo?f=838e60b7-ea75-46e8-865c-fde4864244b3); the version presented may differ.

Awards (1)

  • Category Award: HM

Competition history

  • CSEF 2023 Alternative Energy · Entry J0211

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