Abstract:

Renewable energy alternatives currently constitute new paradigms of sustainability, microbial fuel cells (MFC) allow the accumulation of energy and, in another context, one of the major environmental problems is water pollution as a result of irregular settlements in urban areas. The research was oriented to identify the potential for obtaining electric energy using primary and organic nutrients in biocells. For its development, wastewater was used and a prototype was designed in which three treatments were evaluated (flowers, NPK and the interaction between both), finding the effectiveness of the nutrients applied. A statistical design was used using the analysis of variance with multiple observations applying an experimental design with factorial arrangement to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatments. As a result, it was established that the cell that used flowers as a nutrient produced a greater amount of energy, which leads to the conclusion that it is possible to obtain electrical energy from wastewater by manipulating variables and applying experimental methods and interactions between primary and organic nutrients.

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