Researchers from the Environmental Biotechnology Lab at IIT Jodhpur have demonstrated that plant-based microbial fuel cells dubbed as MFCs, can generate power from wastewater compared to algae-based systems.
Organic waste materials have a lot of latent energy, domestic waste contains nine times more energy than the treatment consumes and there has been interest all over the world to generate energy from waste during the process of waste treatment, as per a statement.
Photosynthetic MFCs use algae or plants to generate oxygen from waste at the cathode of the fuel cell. Algae-based systems have been extensively studied in recent years because algae grow faster and easily but are sensitive to cultivation conditions.
