Islam, M. Amirul and Chee, Wai Woon and E., Baranitharan and Cheng, C. K. and Yousuf, Abu and Khan, Maksudur R. (2016) Prolonged Stability of Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cell Performance by Inhibiting Aerobic Microbial Growth Using Platinum and Carbon Nanotube (PT-CNT) Nanoparticles as a Cathode Catalyst. In: Proceedings of the 6th IGCESH2016: International Graduate Conference on Engineering, Science and Humanities , 15-17 August 2016 , Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor. pp. 251-253.. ISBN 978-967-0194-67-7
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Abstract
The inescapable growth of heterotrophic aerobic bacteria on the surface of air cathodes is an important factor causing oxygen depletion and substrate loss thus reduce the performance stability of air cathode single-chamber microbial fuel cells (MFCs). In this study, the possible use of platinum and carbon nanotube (Pt-CNT) nanoparticles as an antimicrobial agents as well as cathode catalyst for air-cathode MFCs was examined. The biomass content on carbon air-cathodes (CACs) was substantially decreased by 38.2% with Pt-CNT treatment after 26 days of MFCs operation. As a result, the oxygen reduction catalytic performance of the Pt-CNT treated CACs was much stable whereas the fast performance decline of the untreated cathode. Consequently, a quite stable electricity production was obtained for the MFCs with the Pt-CNT treated CACs, alternatively with a 22.5% decrease in maximum power density of the MFCs observed with the untreated cathode. Based on these results, it can be concluded that (1) the growth of oxygenconsuming heterotrophic microbes could be inhibited by Pt-CNT, (2) Pt-CNT could be applied as a cathode catalyst for oxygen reduction, thus (4) the MFC with the Pt-CNT -coated cathode led to the enhenced stable current generation.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Air-cathode microbial fuel cell, Platinum nanoparticles, Oxygen reduction reaction, Bacterial inhibition |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering Faculty of Engineering Technology |
| Depositing User: | Noorul Farina Arifin |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2016 03:08 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2018 08:31 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15760 |
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