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Potential Effect of Sugar Mill Waste Water as Substrate for Bio-Electricity Generation using Laboratory Scale Double Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell
1Mohammad Siddique, 2,Abdul Sattar Jatoi, 1Faisal Mushtaq,1Ghulamullah Khan,3,4Masroor Ahmed Abro, 3 Shaheen Aziz, 3Suhail Ahmed Soomro
1Chemical engineering department Dawood university of engineering and technology Karachi
2Chemical engineering department Dawood university of engineering and technology Karachi
3Chemical engineering department Mehran university of engineering and technology Jamshoro,Sindh
4College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, P. R. China.
*Corresponding author: siddiqnasar786@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Bio-electrochemical system for power generation getting attention due to utilization of waste material. Based on that study was made to convert sugar industry waste water for bio-electricity generation using double chamber microbial fuel cell. Different organic load in form of substrate concentration and parametric effect were tested to optimize the best condition for electricity generation. From 100g/l to 300g/l with step size 100g/l, for aeration rate from 100-250ml/min with step size 50ml/min, and for as pH from 4.5 to 6.5 with step size 0.5pH. the maximum power generation were observed at pH 6, aeration rate 200ml/min and organic load 200g/l about 820mA. Regarding above results that found favorable condition on environment as well as waste reduction.
Key words Biotreatment, Electricity Generation, Sugar Mill Waste Water, MFC
