Date of Thesis
Spring 2024
Description
This thesis presents the development of a cost-effective and efficient current sensing module designed for monitoring of soil-based Microbial Fuel Cells and the influence plant phenomena has on power production. Soil-based Microbial Fuel Cells has the potential to provide efficient powering of IoT devices in agricultural fields and knowledge behind plant-soil relationships gives insight to optimizing their deployment. The field of study for Microbial Fuel cells falls within multiple disciplines and thus results in inconsistent practices across the varying research groups. This thesis highlights the common practices within each discipline, the avoidable challenges faced during experiments, and the results of plant phenomena Allelopathy and Nitrogen Fixation has on the performance of Microbial Fuel Cells, monitored by the proposed current sensing module.
Keywords
Microbial Fuel Cell, Allelopathy, Nitrogen Fixation
Access Type
Masters Thesis (Bucknell Access Only)
Degree Type
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Major
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Peter Mark Jansson
Recommended Citation
Luong, Tyler, "Exploring the Performance of Soil Based Microbial Fuel Cells in the Presence of Allelopathic and Nitrogen Fixing Plants" (2024). Master’s Theses. 279.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/masters_theses/279