Studies on bioelectricity production from microalgae Spirulina platensis cultivation; supplemented with tannery effluent in microbial fuel cell
1*Kangasalam Amala, 1Karuppiah Vijay, 2Murugesan Krishnaveni, 3Arulprakasam Ajucarmelprecilla and 1Krishna babu Siddarth babu
1Department of Microbiology, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), affiliated to Thiruvalluvar University, Tirupattur 635 601, Tirupattur District, Tamil Nadu (India) 2Nadar Saraswathi College of Arts and Science, Vadaputhupatti 625531, Theni District, Tamil Nadu, (India) 3Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Science Campus, Alagappa University, Karaikudi 630003, Sivaganga District, Tamil Nadu, (India) *Corresponding author: Dr. Kangasalam Amala Ph.D., Email: amalak87@gmail.com ORCiD: 0000-0003-4210-9664 Author’s ORCiD: Author 1: 0000-0003-4210-9664, Author 2: 0000-0001-7950-7899, Author 4: 0000-0002-6198-6235
ABSTRACT
In recent years the demand for the energy supply has become one of the major issues worldwide. Every day the energy requirement is an ever-increasing entity throughout the world due to the enormous increase in the vehicles and population. Continuous use of fossil fuels, especially petroleum oil and natural gas, has led to the environmental pollution. In this regard, renewable energy source has been viewed as a possible alternative to fossil fuels, which have potential to generate energy and also environment friendly energy source. Increasing human population and their activities are consuming the natural energy sources; it leads to depletion of fossil fuels. Active research for finding out alternate sources of energy generation especially from renewable sources is on the way. The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a promising alternative technology that utilizes microbes as biocatalyst for power generation. Microalgae sp. offers an interesting step for wastewater treatments as well as it might be promising sources of biomass (waste water) for generating renewable energy sources.