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Optimization of Agro-Industrial Waste Bioconversion into Bioelectricity

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Last updated: 09 Mar 2025

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Inorganic chemistry

Abstract

Bioelectricity is considered one of the most important sources of clean green energy that has attracted the attention of many scientists to try to discover some of its secrets. Agro-industrial waste is widely used in the production of alternative energy in general and electricity in particular. There is an important agro-industrial waste produced during the molasses (black honey) industry in Upper Egypt, this waste called (El-ghasheem). In the present work, El-ghasheem was used in an economical-designed microbial fuel cell (MFC) to obtain cheap green electricity. The 'H'-type MFC was operated with a capacity of 600 ml in each chamber, and copper wire was used to link the two graphite rod electrodes. Lamp wicks that had been soaked in a 1M KCl solution were used to create an inexpensive salt bridge. Factors affecting the production of bioelectricity from this MFC were optimized to get the optimum power. Bioelectricity production was enhanced using crude microbial laccase as a cathodic reaction biocatalyst. Laccase produced from Penicillium chrysogenum was used to increase voltage and current from 0.40±0.011 V, 0.02±0.002 A to 0.608±0.002 V and 0.05±0.003 A, respectively at 37 °C, anolyte pH 6, and catholyte pH 5 for a 10-day incubation period.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2024.284772.9629

Keywords

Microbial fuel cell, Bioelectricity, bioconversion, agro-industrial waste, Laccase

Authors

First Name

Abdelrahman

Last Name

Tammam

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Microbiology and Botany department, Faculty of Science,Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

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abdotammam@yahoo.com

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First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Saleh

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Cairo University

Email

msaleh@sci.cu.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0003-2218-3947

First Name

Hani

Last Name

Moubasher

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Affiliation

Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University

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moubasher54@hotmail.com

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Volume

68

Article Issue

1

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53249

Issue Date

2025-01-01

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2024-04-23

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

457

Page End

462

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_356629.html

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356,629

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Optimization of Agro-Industrial Waste Bioconversion into Bioelectricity

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01 Feb 2025