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

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