Accession Number:

ADA551479

Title:

Deployable Microbial Fuel Cell and Methods

Descriptive Note:

Patent application, filed 8 Sep 2010

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• McNeilly, Frank J.

Report Date:

2011-09-08

Pagination or Media Count:

21.0

Abstract:

An anodecathode system is disclosed for use in a Benthic microbial fuel cell. Carbon cloth forms at least a portion of the anode and is disposed on one side of a water oxygen impermeable layer, which can be weighted around a periphery thereof to hold the anode against a water-sediment interface. Carbon cloth flaps or strands can be attached to the other side of the impermeable layer to form the cathode. The anode and cathode can be divided into sections with each section having an electrical lead coupled thereto. The system is deployed onto the seafloor with the anode side in contact with the water-sediment interface.

Descriptors:

• *FUEL CELLS
• *PATENT APPLICATIONS
• *UNDERWATER
• ANAEROBIC PROCESSES
• ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION
• OCEAN BOTTOM
• ORGANIC MATERIALS
• SEDIMENTS

Subject Categories:

• Electric Power Production and Distribution

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE