Hello from Cincinnati OH, another waste-to-energy guy here!
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:41 pm
Hey everyone,
my name is Cody, just found out about this forum recently and it seems like a fantastic resource. I commend everyone here who is a proponent of sharing information for the good of humanity.
I'm also working on a waste-to-energy project and would love to get people's thoughts on it. We have a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that we've hyper-piliated and disrupted the bacterial colonies' ability to disperse from the biofilm in an effort to make it a more effective strain to use in a microbial fuel cell. Right now we are culturing our bacteria and getting ready to start running wastewater through the system to see what sort of remediation results we'll get. Our plan right now is to start with plain remediation, then move to electricity production, and then to biogas production (hopefully).
Lots and lots of areas we could use help on.. The first bacterial substrates we're going to try are a carbon foam/felt-like material, and a porous biochar substance. So that would be the anode when the system is set up as a circuit/MFC. Cathode material is still up in the air, as is catholyte, buffer, PEM (or lack thereof). Thoughts on any of this? Better place to post this discussion?
Best Regards,
Cody
my name is Cody, just found out about this forum recently and it seems like a fantastic resource. I commend everyone here who is a proponent of sharing information for the good of humanity.
I'm also working on a waste-to-energy project and would love to get people's thoughts on it. We have a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that we've hyper-piliated and disrupted the bacterial colonies' ability to disperse from the biofilm in an effort to make it a more effective strain to use in a microbial fuel cell. Right now we are culturing our bacteria and getting ready to start running wastewater through the system to see what sort of remediation results we'll get. Our plan right now is to start with plain remediation, then move to electricity production, and then to biogas production (hopefully).
Lots and lots of areas we could use help on.. The first bacterial substrates we're going to try are a carbon foam/felt-like material, and a porous biochar substance. So that would be the anode when the system is set up as a circuit/MFC. Cathode material is still up in the air, as is catholyte, buffer, PEM (or lack thereof). Thoughts on any of this? Better place to post this discussion?
Best Regards,
Cody