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A commercially viable microbial fuel cell system to generate electricity while treating waste water was developed by a local research faculty in Korea.
Seoul, KOREA ¶ May 29, 2012 (Whowired) -- A commercially viable microbial fuel cell system to generate electricity while treating waste water was developed by a local research faculty in Korea. The MEST (Ministry of Education Science and Technology) said on May 28 that Prof Jang In-sub and Prof Kim Dae-hu at at the GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) have jointly developed a system to enhance practical commercial applicability of micro-organism fuel cell technology.
The results of this development was published in ChemSusChem, a sister journal of Angewandte Chemie, one of the most distinguished academic journals in the chemical field. (The published title is Scaling-Up Microbial Fuel Cells: Configuration and Potential Drop Phenomenon at Series Connection of Unit Cells in Shared Anolyte).
The microbial fuel cell system is using microbes to generate energy, and it was recently found that the system could apply to treating waste water. Applying the microbial fuel cell system to treating waste water is ‘killing two birds with one stone’ since it transforms useless wasted water into a sustainable renewable energy source.
The research team led by Prof Jang has developed a module system which is practically applied to actual waste water treatment facilities not just in labs by ‘piling up’ each cell into a series-connected single cell to dramatically increase the total amount of generated electricity from the cells. Prof, Jang said “Through the development of the system, we have gone a step further to the technological commercialization of the microbial fuel cell system by greatly increasing practical applicability of it to actual environments.”
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