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Modelling of the electricity generation from living plants
Choo, Ying Ying1, Jedol Dayou2.
Electricity can be harvested from living plants by generating reaction between the plant
and a pair of different metals. It has great potential in sustainable energy production
because it offers a green approach to harvest energy from sources that are abundantly
available. Previous investigation has shown that electrochemistry process is accountable
for its mechanism of energy production. In this paper, the behavior of the ions flow in the
electrodes-plant system is modelled and illustrated. For this purpose, energy harvesting
system consists of Zn-Cu electrodes and aloe Vera was used where the electrodes were
immersed in the aloe Vera leaf. It was hypothesized that during the energy harvesting
process, oxidations of zinc atoms occur when an external load is connected between the
two electrodes. For 72 hours of harvesting process, the zinc electrode experienced a mass
loss of 3.2mg compared to electrochemistry prediction which is 0.0853mg when 1MΩ load
was used. However, using a lower load resistor (1kΩ), the measured mass loss of the zinc
increased to 6.7mg compared to the prediction which is 4.0452mg. This means that there is
an increase of efficiency when a lower load resistance is used, which is 60.4% for 1kΩ,
compared to 2.67% when using 1MΩ. This shows that the electrochemistry process is
influenced by the load connected to the system. This finding improvises a better
understanding on the energy production mechanism of the system.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
- Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
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