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

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.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 15th Annual Conference, TAROS 2014
• 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
• 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
• Contract Date: May 26, 2016