Majid Taghavi
Wearable self sufficient MFC communication system powered by urine
Taghavi, Majid; Stinchcombe, Andrew; Greenman, John; Mattoli, Virgilio; Beccai, Lucia; Mazzolai, Barbara; Melhuish, Chris; Ieropoulos, Ioannis
Authors
Andrew Stinchcombe
John Greenman john.greenman@uwe.ac.uk
Virgilio Mattoli
Lucia Beccai
Barbara Mazzolai
Chris Melhuish Chris.Melhuish@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Robotics & Autonomous Systems
Yannis Ieropoulos Ioannis2.Ieropoulos@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Bioenergy & Director of B-B
Contributors
Michael Mistry
Editor
Ale� Leonardis
Editor
Mark Witkowski
Editor
Chris Melhuish Chris.Melhuish@uwe.ac.uk
Editor
Abstract
A new generation of self-sustainable and wearable Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) is introduced. Two different types of energy - chemical energy found in urine and mechanical energy harvested by manual pumping - were converted to electrical energy. The wearable system is fabricated using flexible MFCs with urine used as the feedstock for the bacteria, which was pumped by a manual foot pump. The pump was developed using check valves and soft tubing. The MFC system has been assembled within a pair of socks. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.
Citation
Taghavi, M., Stinchcombe, A., Greenman, J., Mattoli, V., Beccai, L., Mazzolai, B., …Ieropoulos, I. (2014). Wearable self sufficient MFC communication system powered by urine. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8717 LNAI, 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_12
Journal Article Type | Conference Paper |
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Conference Name | 15th Annual Conference, TAROS 2014 |
Conference Location | Birmingham, UK |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Sep 14, 2015 |
Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
Print ISSN | 0302-9743 |
Electronic ISSN | 1611-3349 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8717 LNAI |
Pages | 131-138 |
Series Title | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_12 |
Keywords | robotics, user interfaces and human computer interaction, data mining and knowledge discovery, computation by abstract devices, microbial fuel cell, MFC, urine, energy, wearable system |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1434798 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_12 |
Additional Information | Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : Advances in Autonomous Robotics Systems, 15th Annual Conference, TAROS 2014 |
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