MY RESEARCH INTEREST

The impressive development over the last few decades in the arena of renewable energy turns
up to nurture the new and innovative methodologies. Globally most of the energy has been
derived from fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal which are progressively running to be out.
Moreover, by using this fuel the earth’s environment gets affected by the way of air pollution,
toxic gas emission and global warming.
As engineers, we should take care about our future generations and need to explore the
possibility of switching over to cleaner and greener fuel options for the generation of
electrical energy. In the recent past, researchers have turned their review towards the
Microbial fuel cell (MFC). MFC produces energy by using variety of bio degradable
substrates as fuels at low operating cost. These systems are very adaptable and holds good to
provide energy in a sustainable nature. But it requires major improvements for the wide
spread applications.

In that pursuit, in my present research I have focussed to address three prime aspects relating
to their enhancement of MFC’s performance.

a. Is cow dung slurry is suitable for a sustained electricity generation.

b. The distance between electrodes of MFC has any influence on performance of

MFCs.

c. A demonstration of improved performance of CNT coated SSM electrode by

oxidation-reduction process.

Since microbes are considered as the driving forces in MFCs, the bacterial community
involved in electrochemical reactions have also been screened. It is in this venture an attempt
is made to design, fabricate and operate a MFC under different operational strategies. Four
set of MFC systems have been fabricated and executed for thirty days cycle to achieve the
objectives of the present study. The proposed methodologies are imbibed with indigenous
ideas and gives better and reliable performance.

The future scope of my research extends to identify and culture the bacterial communities for
efficient power flow.