Bone Char as a Support Material to Build a Microbial Biocapacitor
E.D. Isaacs-Páez, B. Cercado
Waste biomass can be exploited as an alternative material for carbon-based capacitors. Bone char has intrinsic properties such as surface area, porosity and capacitance, which are suitable for building capacitive electrodes. These properties also favor the development of biofilms to prepare capacitive bioelectrodes. A capacitive bioanode has been constructed with a compost leachate-based biofilm developed on a packed electrode of bone char. The bioanode showed a capacitance of 16.07 µFs(a-1)/cm2 (a = 0.8), a pseudocapacitance of 23.6 µF/cm2 and was able to discharge 32,800 C/m2 in a period of 110 h.
Keywords
Biochar, Bioelectrodes, Biofilm, Capacitance, Charge, Green Energy
Published online 6/20/2020, 20 pages
Citation: E.D. Isaacs-Páez, B. Cercado, Bone Char as a Support Material to Build a Microbial Biocapacitor, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 78, pp 1-20, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900871-1
Part of the book on Biomass Based Energy Storage Materials
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