Preparation of a new type of composite anode and microbial fuel cell based on nitrogen doped biological carbon and porous volcanic rocks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10991967-B2
Application number	US-201716303541-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 1, 2017
Priority date	Apr 11, 2017
Publication date	Apr 27, 2021
Grant date	Apr 27, 2021

Abstract

A preparation method for a novel composite anode based on nitrogen-doped charcoal of sludge and porous volcanic, and a microbial fuel cell, relating to the technical field of resource utilization of new materials, new energy and wastewater. Active sludge is prepared into porous nitrogen-doped charcoal by using a nitrogen high-temperature pyrolysis baking method; and then, surface minerals are removed by using an acidification method to improve the electrical conductivity of the charcoal; finally, surface charcoal loading is performed by taking volcanic granules as a carrier to prepare and form nitrogen-doped charcoal granules on a volcanic surface. The novel granules have high porosity, high electrical conductivity and large specific surface area, and fully meet the performance requirement of the anode material of the microbial fuel cell. The anode of the novel nitrogen-doped porous charcoal can increase the loading capacity of electricity-producing bacteria and microorganisms of the anode of the microbial fuel cell, and improve the conversion rate of biomass energy in wastewater; by virtue of low-resistance characteristics, the electron transfer efficiency is also improved, and finally, the power of the microbial fuel cell is enhanced, so that both wastewater treatment and recycling and efficient biological power generation are achieved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A preparation method of a composite anode doped nitrogen based on biological carbon and porous volcanic rocks, comprising:
(1) preparing dry power sludge by drying activated sludge and calcining the activated sludge at 600˜700° C. without oxygen;
(2) making porous carbon powder doped with nitrogen by purifying the dry powder sludge by acidification;
(3) drying the porous carbon powder doped nitrogen;
(4) selecting volcanic rock particles with more than 40% porosity for purge and deionized water cleaning;
(5) using PVDF as binder, mixing PVDF and drying the porous carbon powder doped with nitrogen in DMF, and then adding the volcano rock particles, evenly coating the porous carbon powder doped with nitrogen on outer surface of the volcano rock particles after mixing; then calcining them at 600-700° C. without oxygen, inoculating new porous carbon particles doped with nitrogen with Shewanella , which is a composite anode doped with nitrogen based on biochar and porous volcano rocks.

2. A MFC using a composite anode doped with nitrogen based on the biochar and porous volcanic rocks, wherein:
biochar doped with nitrogen based on porous volcano rock is filled in an anodic chamber of MFC as electrode, a filling rate is 95-100%; carbon rods are inserted in the composite anode porous biochar doped with nitrogen, and titanium wire on a top of the carbon rods is connected with data collection system; a water inlet is set on a top of the anodic chamber, hydraulic transmission is performed using gravity flow model; a gas check valve is arranged at a top end of an anode chamber; a saturated calomel reference electrode is inserted into the biological carbon, which is connected to an external data collection system;
the anode chamber and a cathode chamber are designed from top to bottom, the chambers are separated by nonwoven fabrics; activated carbon is used as air cathode catalyst of the cathode chamber, PVDF membrane is coated on carbon cloths, connecting with the data collection system; an external resistance is connected between the cathode and the anode.

Assignees

• Univ Dalian Tech

Inventors

• Liu Lifen
• Gao Changfei
• He Jingwen
• Li Yihua
• Li Liang

Classifications

• H01M8/16 Primary

  Biochemical fuel cells, i.e. cells in which microorganisms function as catalysts · CPC title

• C02F1/46109 Primary

  Electrodes · CPC title

• C02F11/13

  by heating · CPC title

• C02F11/18

  by thermal conditioning (by pyrolysis C02F11/10) · CPC title

• C02F3/34

  characterised by the microorganisms used · CPC title