The usage of UI lake and coconut charcoal as a bio electrode with microbial desalination cell for optimizing a concentration of sodium percarbonate

Putri Anggun Puspitarini, Nur Widdya Damayanti, Maulina Aini Hfidzah, Tania Surya Utami

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Abstract

The Microbial Desalination Cell (MDC) is one of the energy efficient methods to desalinate sea water developed from the Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) employing the metabolism of microorganisms. In this study, we utilized microorganisms from Universitas Indonesia (UI) lake water as substrate and coconut shell charcoal as bio electrode instead of conventional electrodes. Coconut shell charcoal is known to have good performance capability in MDC system, low price and environmentally friendly. We used sodium percarbonate (NP) that has excellent buffering capability as a catholyte and UI lake water as an anolyte in our MDC system. With this, we could reduce the cost of sea water desalination process and at the same time we could manage to overcome pH imbalance which commonly occur in MDC system. The optimum result of the seawater model desalination after 50 hours was obtained from the MDC system employing NP concentration of 0.15M. The salt removal (SR) was 15.14% with desalination rate (DR) of 0.1876mmol/hour.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication3rd Biomedical Engineering''s Recent Progress in Biomaterials, Drugs Development, and Medical Devices
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the International Symposium of Biomedical Engineering, ISBE 2018
EditorsPraswasti P.D.K. Wulan, Misri Gozan, Sotya Astutiningsih, Ghiska Ramahdita, Radon Dhelika, Prasetyanugraheni Kreshanti
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9780735418226
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Apr 2019
Event3rd International Symposium of Biomedical Engineering''s Recent Progress in Biomaterials, Drugs Development, and Medical Devices, ISBE 2018 - Jakarta, Indonesia
Duration: 6 Aug 20188 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume2092
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference3rd International Symposium of Biomedical Engineering''s Recent Progress in Biomaterials, Drugs Development, and Medical Devices, ISBE 2018
Country/TerritoryIndonesia
CityJakarta
Period6/08/188/08/18

Keywords

  • bio electrode
  • lake
  • microbial desalination cell
  • salt removal
  • sodium percarbonate

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