Similar to a hydrogen fuel cell, here is a new device that creates electricity using bacteria for treating wastewater. Thanks to the environmental scientists at Washington University in St. Louis for inventing this eco-friendly device for harvesting renewable energy.
Fed continuously, it is electricity producing microbial fuel cell — called ‘up-flow microbial fuel cell’ (UMFC). Unlike most microbial fuel cells, this device works with chambers atop each other, and not beside each other.
The upflow microbial fuel cell is a promising wastewater treatment process and has, as a lab-scale unit, generated electricity and purified artificial wastewater simultaneously for more than five months.
With population growing and energy resources depleting worldwide, production of energy from wastewater should be a high international priority, scientists predict.
Via: Whats Next Network
