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Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bio-electrochemical system known for converting biochemical energy to electricity. A design of MFC was developed consisting of graphite and titanium plates as anode and cathode, respectively, with piggery wastewater as organic substrate. The architectural design of MFC was a single-chamber air-cathode membraneless which is simple and cheap design. A rectangular chamber plexiglass was fabricated able to hold 500 mL piggery wastewater and electrodes with the anode that has an active surface area of 0.0149 m2. The piggery wastewater contained a mixed culture of Escherichia Coli, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., and Proteus spp. which were incubated in a mediatorless system. The physicochemical characteristics of the piggery wastewater in terms of temperature, pH level, dissolved oxygen level, total dissolved solids, and electrical conductivity before the operation were 29.2oC, 6.54, 9.53 mg/L, 3,550 ppm, and 7,519 μs/cm, respectively, and after the one-day incubation and 7 days operation in a room temperature were 29.9oC, 5.55, 3.74 mg/L, 6,857 ppm, and 13,859 μs/cm, respectively. The measured electricity parameters of the MFC produced a maximum output, in terms of cell voltage, current output, and power density, were 112.50 mV, 100.00 μA, and 570.47 μW/m2, respectively.
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