Electrochemical performance of microbial fuel cells based on disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) membranes
- Title
- Electrochemical performance of microbial fuel cells based on disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) membranes
- Author
- 이영무
- Keywords
- Fuel Cells; Microbial fuel cell; Polymer electrolyte membrane; Sulfonated polymer membrane
- Issue Date
- 2012-12
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V.
- Citation
- Journal of power sources, Dec 2012, 220, P.269-279
- Abstract
- A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bio-electrochemical system that drives a current by mimicking bacterial interactions found in nature. Usually, MFCs use Nation as a PEM to separate the electrodes while permitting protons transfer between the anode and cathode. However, Nation is expensive and accounts for a large percentage of the costs in MFC configuration. Here, we show MFCs using hydrocarbon-based PEM, disulfonated poly (arylene ether sulfone) (BPSH), which is considered as one of alternative PEM, and relatively inexpensive as compared with Nation. BPSH membranes exhibit a comparable performance to Nation 212. Especially, BPSH 40 and 60 (mole %) have higher proton conductivity than Nation 212. In a two-chamber system, MFC with BPSH 40 shows higher voltage than that with Nation 212. MFCs with BPSH 20 and 30 show lower voltage decline than other PEMs. In a single-chamber system, a voltage of MFC with BPSH 40 shows about 30% higher (17 mV) than that with Nation 212 (13 mV) with internal resistance of 10 Omega. In addition, The MFC with BPSH 40 produced about 10% higher maximum power density (126 mW m(-2)) than that with Nation 212 (111 mW m(-2)). (C) 2012 Elsevier BM. All rights reserved.
- URI
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037877531201244X?via%3Dihubhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/50468
- ISSN
- 0378-7753
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2012.07.109
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