Photos and Videos
of Microbial Electrolysis Cells (MECs)/BEAMR systems researched in the Logan
lab
A single chamber MEC with
a brush anode and a flat carbon cathode, shown with a
reference probe. See the paper by
Call & Logan (2008).
A new, high performance
two-chamber microbial electrolysis cell (MEC). The anode chamber is
filled with graphite granules(shown with a red clip
connector). The hydrogen gas evolves from the cathode(black
clip) and is captured in the tube above. Gas flows through a
respirometer to measure gas flow rate. (Photo by Shaoan
Cheng).
See
the paper by Cheng and Logan, PNAS, 2007, 104(47):
18871–18873.
Shaoan Cheng (left) and
Bruce Logan examine one of the new MEC reactors.
Hong Liu (left) and Bruce
Logan examining an MEC/BEAMR reactor.
A data logging multimeter
is used to monitor voltage in the circuit containing a
resistor. From the voltage and resistor information, we can
calculate current.
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