A Terrestrial Microbial Fuel Cell Powered Wireless Sensor Networks
Daxing Zhang, He-Wen Tian, Yongxian Guo
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95% confidenceMFC research with emerging-tech focus on technology, economic, standard. Terrestrial Microbial Fuel Cells (TMFCs) can be inoculated and work using of soil, which overcomes the shortcomings of A...
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- System
- MFC
- Substrate
- complex media
- Inoculum
- soil collected from the forest (Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi, China)
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Abstract
Terrestrial Microbial Fuel Cells (TMFCs) can be inoculated and work using of soil, which overcomes the shortcomings of Aquatic Microbial Fuel Cells (AMFCs) and extends application areas of MFCs. Energy supply, as a primary influential factor determining the lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) nodes, remains an open challenge. In theory, sensor nodes powered by MFCs have an eternal life. However, low output voltage and power density of MFCs are two pronounced challenges for the application in WSNs. A Terrestrial microbial fuel cell (TMFC) reactor is proposed in the paper. The power generation performance of the proposed TMFC is tested. A single-hop WSN powered by a TMFC experimental setup was designed and experimented with. Results show that the TMFC can achieve enough power for the WSN node working periodically, which validates the feasibility of WSNs powering by TMFCs. Keywords-Terrestrial microbial fuel cell; wireless sensor network; energy harvesting; power management
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- Journal
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (WCSN 2016)
- Year
- 2017