Development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15A membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent

A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a device capable to convert chemical energy to electrical energy by using microorganisms. Typically, microbial fuel cell is recognized with its dual chamber system. In this dual chamber system, the membrane acts as the separator that divides anode and cathode as the ce...

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Main Author:	Nordin, Nur Dianaty
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Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	TP Chemical technology
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spelling	my-utm-ep.346052017-09-14T04:33:25Z Development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15A membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent 2013-01 Nordin, Nur Dianaty TP Chemical technology A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a device capable to convert chemical energy to electrical energy by using microorganisms. Typically, microbial fuel cell is recognized with its dual chamber system. In this dual chamber system, the membrane acts as the separator that divides anode and cathode as the cell compartment. One aspect in microbial fuel cell (MFC) development involves the challenge in finding suitable membrane as separator. Excellent membrane should be low in cost, high in proton conductivity, limits substrate and oxygen diffusivity. In this work, a composite membrane constituting a sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) (SPEEK) and cloisite 15A is studied meanwhile the palm oil mill effluent (POME) waste water was used as the source for electricity generation. The addition of organoclays; cloisite 15A to the SPEEK dope solution during the preparation of the membrane is expected to overcome the limitation imposed by the pure SPEEK and extensively studied membrane Nafion, a sulfonated tetrafluoroethylene. The addition of cloisite 15 A indeed improve the overall membrane properties. The water uptake, mechanical strength and oxygen diffusivity for the SPEEK/Cloisite membrane is 22.6%, 46.2 MPa and 0.36x10-5 cm2 s-1 exceeding the performance of Nafion and pure SPEEK. During MFC operation, the maximum power density was obtained by Nafion with 3.5 mW/m2 slightly higher than SPEEK/Cloisite with power density of 2.8 mW/m2. The assessment on the POME properties shows that the COD values, total ammonia and total nitrogen were reduced in in all three MFCs using SPEEK/Cloisite, SPEEK and Nafion membrane respectively. 2013-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/34605/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/34605/1/NurDianatyNordinMFKK2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:69551?site_name=Restricted Repository masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Chemical Engineering
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spellingShingle	TP Chemical technology Nordin, Nur Dianaty Development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15A membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent
description	A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a device capable to convert chemical energy to electrical energy by using microorganisms. Typically, microbial fuel cell is recognized with its dual chamber system. In this dual chamber system, the membrane acts as the separator that divides anode and cathode as the cell compartment. One aspect in microbial fuel cell (MFC) development involves the challenge in finding suitable membrane as separator. Excellent membrane should be low in cost, high in proton conductivity, limits substrate and oxygen diffusivity. In this work, a composite membrane constituting a sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) (SPEEK) and cloisite 15A is studied meanwhile the palm oil mill effluent (POME) waste water was used as the source for electricity generation. The addition of organoclays; cloisite 15A to the SPEEK dope solution during the preparation of the membrane is expected to overcome the limitation imposed by the pure SPEEK and extensively studied membrane Nafion, a sulfonated tetrafluoroethylene. The addition of cloisite 15 A indeed improve the overall membrane properties. The water uptake, mechanical strength and oxygen diffusivity for the SPEEK/Cloisite membrane is 22.6%, 46.2 MPa and 0.36x10-5 cm2 s-1 exceeding the performance of Nafion and pure SPEEK. During MFC operation, the maximum power density was obtained by Nafion with 3.5 mW/m2 slightly higher than SPEEK/Cloisite with power density of 2.8 mW/m2. The assessment on the POME properties shows that the COD values, total ammonia and total nitrogen were reduced in in all three MFCs using SPEEK/Cloisite, SPEEK and Nafion membrane respectively.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Nordin, Nur Dianaty
author_facet	Nordin, Nur Dianaty
author_sort	Nordin, Nur Dianaty
title	Development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15A membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent
title_short	Development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15A membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent
title_full	Development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15A membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent
title_fullStr	Development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15A membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent
title_full_unstemmed	Development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15A membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent
title_sort	development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15a membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Chemical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Chemical Engineering
publishDate	2013
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Development of microbial fuel cell using speek/cloisite 15A membrane for electricity generation from palm oil mill effluent

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