UTILIZATION OF CATTLE DUNG FOR GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY
| dc.contributor.advisor | MAHADEVA MURTHY, M | |
| dc.contributor.author | SHIVARAJKUMAR, ARIKATTI | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-08T09:55:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-08T09:55:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 40583 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Nowadays Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) are very promising technology in mitigating greenhouse gas effect. MFC is a device that converts chemical energy to electrical energy by their catalytic reaction. An attempt was made to generate electricity by using cattle dung. Results revealed that, the distance between electrodes (zinc and carbon) had negligible or no role in voltage generation. Among the different concentrations of cattle dung with distilled water, 1:1 ratio of cattle dung slurry was found to be the best in terms of both maximum and stable voltage generation. Among different types of waste water formulations used with sterilized cattle dung slurry, it was found that, biogas slurry was producing stable and maximum voltage followed by sewage waste water. The bacterial consortium identified for electric power generation from biogas slurry had Escherichia coli, Bacillus sp., Pseudomonas sp., Cellulomonas sp., Staphylococcus sp., Enterobacter sp. and Micrococcus sp. as the major components. Testing on different concentrations of glucose for electricity generation, revealed that, voltage generation was directly proportional to concentration of glucose. Under different conditions of oxygen, voltage generation was maximum under anaerobic condition, followed by partial anaerobic condition. In applicability of MFC, it was observed that, both scientific calculator as well as LED- bulb were operative continuously for a period of 30 days. But rechargeable battery failed to recharge from the final setup of MFC as it failed to reach required amount of voltage. Department | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | TH-10109 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/89727 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Bangalore | en_US |
| dc.sub | Environmental Science | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
| dc.title | UTILIZATION OF CATTLE DUNG FOR GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |