Development of microbial fuel cell prototype for bioeletricity production in wastes treatment

• Grant number: 17/24524-0
• Support Opportunities: Program for Research on Bioenergy (BIOEN) - Regular Program Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2019
• End date: May 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Sanitary Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Antunes Nolasco
• Grantee: Marcelo Antunes Nolasco
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Mariana Cardoso Chrispim ; Vitor Cano
• Associated research grant(s): 19/23624-6 - Sustainable wastewater treatment, resources recovery and the SDGs, AP.R SPRINT
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/06266-9 - Physicochemical characterisation of wastewater, BP.TT

Abstract

This project will be developed in the context of a PhD Thesis of the Graduate Program in Sustainability of University of Sao Paulo. The main focus is very much aligned to The BIOEN Program of FAPESP, mainly because it is innovation interdisciplinary science and technologically approached at least in two important aspects: (1) To produce renewable energy in the form of bio-electricity, (2) can use wastes or wastewater in order to avoid soil and surface and groundwater pollution. The vinasses from bioethanol production will be simulated prior it´s use in land in sugarcane production. This means the use of vinasses in our Microbial Fuel Cell can be associated with the chain of bioethanol production without disturbing the practices of land application and will produce bioelectricity. This means an important contribution to the science of Sustainability in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals - Agenda 2030 of United Nations. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CANO, VITOR; CANO, JULIO; NUNES, SABRINA C.; NOLASCO, MARCELO A.. Electricity generation influenced by nitrogen transformations in a microbial fuel cell: assessment of temperature and external resistance. RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS, v. 139, APR 2021. (17/10325-5, 17/24524-0)

CANO, VITOR; NOLASCO, MARCELO A.; KURT, HALIL; LONG, CHENGHUA; CANO, JULIO; NUNES, SABRINA C.; CHANDRAN, KARTIK. Comparative assessment of energy generation from ammonia oxidation by different functional bacterial communities. Science of The Total Environment, v. 869, p. 14-pg., 2023-01-31. (17/24524-0, 19/06266-9, 17/10325-5)

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