Hi all,

 i am Harini from India n i am working on MFC's,

 My current value is very much less to the theoritical value,eg.my voltage value is 250 mV,and my resistance is 100 ohms,so i must get a cueent value of 2.5 mA,but I am getting only 0.2 mA, is my work wrong? what should i do to raise my current output

Also, i need some informations abt the methods of maintaining anaerobic conditions in the anode of a microbial fuel cell.

will neural red, methylene blue contribute to maintaining anaerobic conditions in the MFC anode when added to it

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Hi,

I have carbon paper like anode and one GDE like cathode. Before the utilization, can i do a treatment on my electrodes ? According several publications, a nafion 117 is bonding with nafion liquid on the GDE. And other publications use nafion 117 in a plexiglass holder between the anode and the cathode... Can you indicate to me what is the best solutions ?

Thank you

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Hi,

I am a PhD student from Greece, and i want to build an MFC.Can you please help me to find flexible carbon cloth with Pt catalyst and with wet proofing? Almost all papers refer to E-Tek  as their supplier ,but this company no longer produces carbon cloth.

Thanks,

Mina

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Hi,

 I am a studnet doing some research on MFCs. I came across the process and found that anaerobic digestion takes place in the anode chamber.

 My question is does methane form in the anode chamber like in usual anaerobic digestion by methanogenesis. If not, then why ?

 Also if methane is a product in MFC too, then does it simply mean that MFCs are better than conventional Anaerobic Digestors.

Why is everyone talking only about the hydrogen produced not even mentioning about methane ? 

 Thanks in advance for the help.

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Hi, I am interested in constructing a two chambered MFC with locally available material. 

Can anyone help me regarding some suppliers in India for carbon paper and carbon cloth for electrode material?

I have been unable to get any so far. all websites point to suppliers in US or elsewhere. Anyone in India or is US the only hope? Thanks a lot for the help!!  

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Newspaper releases and tutorials

Identification of Benthic Microbes Utilizing Bioremediation and Microbial Fuel Cells, Abbie Groff, Conastoga Valley High School,  Newspaper release - pdf (295 kb). Abbie won the Lancaster county grand prize for her project.

Harvesting Energy from Wastewater in a 2-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell - pdf (442 kb), Sikandar Porter-Gill, Gaithersburg High School

Design of a Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell - pdf (1.40 mb), Eric A. Zielke, Humboldt State University

Probabilistic Analysis of a Monod-type equation by use of a single chamber Microbial Fuel Cell - pdf (374kb), Eric A. Zielke, Humboldt State University

Application of Microbial Fuel Cell technology for a Waste Water Treatment Alternative - pdf (1021kb), Eric A. Zielke, Humboldt State University

Thermodynamic Analysis of s single chamber Microbial Fuel Cell - pdf (707kb), Eric A. Zielke, Humboldt State University

Numerical Analysis of a one dimensional Diffusion Equation for a single chamber Microbial Fuel Cell using a Linked Simulation Optimization (LSO) technique - pdf (924), Eric A. Zielke, Humboldt State University

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Has anyone successfully built small MFCs?  Were stack configurations investigated?

Also what are the best materials for electrodes?

 This would all be done under continous flow and with waste water.

Thanks

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Hi,I am a student on MFC. I want to know how to decide the size of electrode and PEM in MFC  and the chamber size? And what relations ?between the performance of MFC and the sizes of parameters?

Thanks!

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