A Stable Potentiostat for Measuring Power From Low Powered Microbacterial Fuel Cells

Abstract

This technical document details our team's research that was focused on harvesting electrical power from the Mudfish. The Mudfish research takes advantage of bacteria that live in the ocean bottom mud to generate electrical power. This document shows how the harvesting of electrical power was done and looks at possible applications of using electrical current attained from the Mudfish. Our research is based on naturally forming bacteria that grows in the mud. Anode electrodes are placed in the mud with the bacteria. The bacteria living in the mud expel electrons as part of their metabolism.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1064922

Entities

People

  • Jack Dea
  • Michael T. Murphy
  • Wayne Liu

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Bacteria
  • Cells
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Electrical Equipment
  • Electrodes
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Engineering
  • Fermions
  • Fuel Cells
  • Governments
  • Microbial Fuel Cells
  • Military Research
  • Monitoring
  • Operational Amplifiers
  • Printed Circuit Boards
  • Printed Circuits
  • Resistance
  • Resistors
  • United States
  • United States Government

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  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Library and Information Science

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Microelectronics