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Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations
The automated bacterial fuel cell
Summary
The fossil fuel emissions and wastewater treatment high costs forced the world to invent many alternative energy sources to both decreases fossil fuel usage and excite wastewater treatment with reasonable costs. However, many alternative energy sources whether have side effects on environments like hydropower or compete with food production for arable land and fertilizers and are inefficient for applicable usages like biofuels. We address an idea that is an alternative energy source, and a wastewater treatment method, all-in-one, to outweigh the demerits of other counterparts, today, by converting chemical energy in wastewater, and sunlight into electricity and freshwater.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Preserving the integrity of our planet is a very important matter, so we thought of devising a practical way to preserve it from environmental pollution in addition to producing clean energy instead of the pollution caused by fossil fuels
How We Developed This Project
We have developed this idea through some basic information in the science of bacteria, and by pairing it with physics, we have found that bacteria in the soil can generate negative charges that pass through an anode and cathode and can be used as an electric current source.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Nasa will help our idea by investigating the change in the efficiency and focusing of the solar radiation on the plants, and the relation between solar energy and produced energy and clean water, as solar energy is our energy input that the plant transforms to organics that in turn are digested by bacteria to give electricity. Also, Nasa will monitor growth of the plant and the change in the soil bio-diversity within a long exposure to metallic ions in the soil from the anode and the cathode.
Project Demo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bePXo1S-AfOkoINfwVjwHMK35EMgYjBe/view?usp=sharing
Data & Resources
Helder, M., Strik, D. P., Hamelers, H. V., & Buisman, C. J. (2012). The flat-plate plant-microbial fuel cell: the effect of a new design on internal resistances. Biotechnology for biofuels, 5(1), 70. Retrieved April 26,
2020 from https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1754-68345-70 [PDF].
Logan, B. E., Hamelers, B., Rozendal, R., Schröder, U., Keller, J., Freguia, S., & Rabaey, K. (2006).
Microbial fuel cells: methodology and technology. Environmental science & technology, 40(17), 5181-5192.
Retrieved April 28, 2020 from https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es0605016 [PDF].
Reece, J. B., Urry, L. A., Cain, M. L., Wasserman, S. A., Minorsky, P. V., & Jackson, R. B. (2014). Campbell
biology 9th Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson. pp.456. Retrieved April 30, 2020 from
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1829656078133050/ [Book].
Zumdahl, S. and Zumdahl, S., 2014. Zumdahl Chemistry C2014 Textbook. 9th Edition. Australia:
Brooks/Cole Gengage Learning, pp.839 - 844, 1039, 1064 & 1065. Retrieved May 3, 2020 from
https://eighbooks.xyz/read.php?q=Chemistry_By_Zumdahl_9th_Edition [Book].