Our laboratory actively works on optimizing different biosystems and extractions of bio-based components like proteins and biodiesels. At present, we are working optimizing the performances of bioelectrochemical systems. Bioelectrochemical systems integrate the knowledge of multiple disciplines – electrochemistry, microbiology and material sciences. Being biological-based systems, there are several factors that influence their performance, for maximizing their performances. Our research team is currently working on two major types of bioelectrochemical systems – microbial electrosynthesis systems and microbial fuel cells.
The major work in microbial electrosynthesis systems is on development and optimization of novel electrode materials. We are using optimization tools to maximize the acetate yield from CO2 in these microbial electrosynthesis systems. Our work in Microbial fuel cells focuses on construction and up-scaling of low-cost systems for industrial wastewater treatment. We are further working on optimizing the microbial fuel cells performance in terms of power density and COD removal.
Currently we have centrifuge, hot air oven, muffle furnace, constant temperature bath, data logger and multimeters which are required for electrode construction and microbial fuel cell monitoring. We are a budding team of 2 PhD students and 1 MTech student working on these systems.
