Pre-Immobilization of Anaerobic Mixed Culture on Electrode of the Upflow Bio-Filter Circuit Microbial Fuel Cell

Abstract:

Microbial extracellular electron transfer is a significant process in a microbial fuel cell (MFC). Owing to many potential losses in the electron transfer from microorganism to an electrode, a promotion of microbial attachment to electrode should be a productive solution to this difficulty of MFC. We also introduced here a prior colonization of microbes on electrode instead of a conventional immobilization which entirely occurred in a MFC reactor to expedite an attachment of microorganisms on the electrode surface. Coconut shell-based granular activated carbons (CGACs) used as one of the electrodes in the upflow bio-filter circuit microbial fuel cell were immersed in Lysogeny broth (LB) at pH 7 before an inoculation of anaerobic consortium from a wastewater treatment plant was performed. The immobilization was proceeded in an Erlenmeyer flask at 30°C with a shaking speed of 100 rpm throughout an experiment. CGACs taken from a collection of flasks were examined a surface with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). On the 3^rd day of immobilization, SEM images showed that a colonization was seen obviously in large pores on CGAC surface. There were quite plentiful possessions on a rough surface while smooth surface not supporting well at the beginning got worse in attraction of bacteria on day 9 of immobilization. An addition of fresh LB into immobilization solution was conducted to improve the microbial attachment to smooth surface of CGAC. At 9 days after inoculation, the consequence of fresh medium filling did obviously raise the number of bacteria on the plain surface as opposed to earlier experiment.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 751)
• Pages: 431-434
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.751.431
• Online since: August 2017
• Authors: Chinnatad Sinprasertchok*, Nuwong Chollacoop, Sumittra Charojrochkul, Korakot Sombatmankhong
• Keywords: Granular Activated Carbon, Granular Electrode, Immobilization, Mixed Culture, Upflow Bio-Filter Circuit Microbial Fuel Cell

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