'Bio-Battery' is likely to be the next mode of electric generation.

Electricity is a much needed energy in our day to day life without which, probably our generation will go back to the age of ‘Adam and eve’. But according to the current statistics and data, it’s been said that within 35 years, the all ‘probable’ mode of generating electrical energy will be out of stock. So, the question remains, what will be our next mode of generating electricity? The answer lies within our boundaries of life. It is nothing but ‘sewages’ which will be the next generation Electrical energy resources.

Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute of Environmental, Energy and safety technology came up with the idea and have also succeeded in considerably improving the efficiency of the bio-gas plants. The bio-battery process developed by the team not only gives electricity and heat, but also high quality products such as gas, oil and vegetable oil. Not only this bio-batteries are used in domestic appliances, but can also be utilized in chemical industries and used as admixtures for Aviation and Marine fuels.

The Process:

The bio-battery is a modular and consists of a pool of environmentally- friendly technologies such as bio-gas plants, thermal storage and various other storage plants to produce electricity. The main concept of this process is thermo-catalytic reforming. In this process the experts convert carbon out of organic material, for example fermentation residues from the bio-gas plants and bio-ethanol productions. The main advantage of bio-battery is that the number of raw material which would otherwise have to be disposed often at greater rate.

The raw materials first pass through a sluice without oxygen into a continuously rotating screw. There the material is heated up and broken down into bio-char and volatile vapors. The vapors are reheated and then cooled down again. In the process it condenses into a liquid, which contains bio-oil and water. Researchers separate the high quality oil to reuse it. The resulting gas is purified and collected.

Bio-gas plants have become very popular in Germany, producing electricity from renewable sources and can compensate for highly possible fluctuating wind and solar energy. According to statistics there almost 8000 plants running in Germany producing around 3.75 gigawatts in total, that is equivalent to three nuclear plants. So, you can imagine that how ‘Sewage can save our world when it will be on the brink of electric extinction.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150227112539.htm

/Anuttam/