From the lab to the field: Self-stratifying microbial fuel cells stacks directly powering lights

Highlights • Urine fed microbial fuel cell stacks were used as a direct power source.• Maintaining individual cells at high potential enables stable series connections.• A stack continuously and directly powered LED spotlights in the field.• A stack was connected to the lights through a LED-driver to limit cell reversal.• Directly connecting LEDs to a stack is more stable than using LED drivers.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Applied Energy

• Publication date

  2020-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115514PMID 33144751PMCID 7567022
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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