Development of sulfonated porous graphitized carbon by pyrolysis from lemongrass and its coating on sulfonated carbon brush for use as anode in single chambered microbial fuel cell
摘要
The focus on the biomass waste-generated graphitized carbon-employed anode for the single-chambered microbial fuel cell (SMFC) is extremely limited in the literature. Additionally, grafting, as well as the sulfonation process, has been hardly explored. Thus, this present investigation incorporates a synthetic approach in which lemongrass-derived graphitized carbon is activated through sulfonation (S-KLg). Furthermore, it is attached to sulfonic acid functionalized carbon fibers brush by employing the grafting process using glutaraldehyde as a grafting agent (denoted as S-KLg@GCB), for the application in SMFC. The results suggest that S-KLg possesses a three-dimensional porous structure, signifying the likelihood of adhesion and growth of microorganisms, and it also exhibited high conductivity and capacitance. Furthermore, the SMFC with S-KLg@GCB as an anode has shown a significant augmentation in the power density with a corresponding value of 1452.7 mW/m3, which is 1.95 times higher than that of a plain carbon brush anode.
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