TY - GEN
T1 - Nano-watt fueling from a micro-scale microbial fuel cell using black tea waste
AU - Rojas, Jhonathan Prieto
AU - Alqarni, Wejdan Mohammed Mofleh
AU - Kalantan, Kalthom Kamil Saleh
AU - Hussain, Muhammad Mustafa
AU - Mink, Justine E.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2016/2/3
Y1 - 2016/2/3
N2 - In this report, we show the rapid assessment of black tea as potential fuel to power up nanopower systems using a microsized, simplistic and sustainable air-cathode microbial fuel cell. It was found that tea produced more power compared with traditional sodium acetate media due in part to its acidophilic pH and its higher organics content. Although high internal resistance remains a big concern, this simple, curiosity-driven experiment gave us the preliminary results to say that energy could be extracted from the reuse of waste resources such the collection of our afternoon-tea's leftovers.
AB - In this report, we show the rapid assessment of black tea as potential fuel to power up nanopower systems using a microsized, simplistic and sustainable air-cathode microbial fuel cell. It was found that tea produced more power compared with traditional sodium acetate media due in part to its acidophilic pH and its higher organics content. Although high internal resistance remains a big concern, this simple, curiosity-driven experiment gave us the preliminary results to say that energy could be extracted from the reuse of waste resources such the collection of our afternoon-tea's leftovers.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/621343
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7388776/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84964319066&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/NANO.2015.7388776
DO - 10.1109/NANO.2015.7388776
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781467381567
SP - 955
EP - 958
BT - 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ER -