2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Performance improvement of microbial fuel cells by using microbe control with ultrasonic standing waves
| Project/Area Number |
22560146
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Design engineering/Machine functional elements/Tribology
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| Research Institution | Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
TATENO Toshitake 産業技術大学院大学, 産業技術研究科, 産業技術研究科 (30236559)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
KAKUTA Akira 国立東京工業高等専門学校, 機械情報システム工学専攻, 准教授 (60224359)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 微生物燃料電池 / 超音波 / 微小振動 / 長期発電 / 循環型燃料電池 |
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| Research Abstract |
Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) are known that the generation power becomes down in a long term generation by influence of inactive microbes sticking to an electrode. In this study, a method using ultrasonic standing waves is proposed to remove them from the electrode or to avoid them sticking, and evaluated with some experiments. The experimental results showed that the microbes, which had covered the electrode during the long term generation experiment, could be removed with ultrasonic waves, and the electric generation power was recovered. It was also confirmed that the microbe used in this experiment had no obvious damages from the ultrasonic waves on the functional ability of electric generation.
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