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動科系蘇忠楨教授研發成果榮獲國科會2022未來科技獎

動科系蘇忠楨教授跨域整合臺灣科技大學電子工程學系蘇忠傑教授之頂尖團隊,經過10多年研究與技術突破,終於研發出「水底微生物燃料電池模組」,利用畜牧廢水為其燃料電池的燃料,並擬直接應用於已經建置在宜蘭縣商業畜牧場內的「智慧化畜牧廢水處理系統」內低耗電量設備,已經於2022年10月15日獲得國科會「2022未來科技獎---永續綠能與先進材料」殊榮。

研究團隊已經將養豬廢水直接應用於簡易式「雙槽微生物燃料電池」研究,陽極微生物族群來自養豬廢水場之厭氧污泥,再將陽極與陰極透過外電路分別連接一個可以充電之電容,透過使用「快速傅立葉轉換(FFT)」計算分析,藉由計算分析頻率區域內,經由降解養豬廢水中有機質所產生之電流遞減情況,分析結果顯示此MFC之電流是由直流電(DC)與交流電(AC)組成,可能與放電之微生物族群行為有關(Su et al., 2019)。本研究論文已經獲得國際高影響係數之國際期刊所引用(Serra PMD and Espírito-Santo, 2021),而且證明利用電容儲存微生物燃料電池之電能。本次獲獎技術係利用自行研發設計之直立式水底微生物燃料電池所產生之微電流可存於電容,再利用串連方式將多個電容串聯,可以提供充電電池充電使用,未來將實際供應智慧化畜牧廢水處理設施之低耗電裝置使用。本研究團隊於2018年起在科技部智慧農業計畫經費支持下,於宜蘭縣商業豬場建置國內首座智慧化養豬廢水處理系統設施,同時結合物聯網(IoT)技術建置水質遠端監控系統(Su et al., 2020)。此智慧化養豬廢水處理系統內安裝水質感知器,數據透過網際網路傳輸也需要耗用電力,短期擬將沉積物微生物燃料電池,設計成適合畜牧場廢水厭氣槽之水底微生物燃料電池,在妥善處理養豬廢水的同時,也能同時回收沼氣與微生物燃料電池電力等能源,利用此再生電力取代部份水質感知器所需要之電力需求。此次獲獎成果同時符合「SDG6乾淨水與衛生」、「SDG7負擔得起與潔淨的能源」及「SDG13氣候行動」等聯合國永續發展目標。

 

圖1. 蘇忠楨教授獲頒國科會「2022未來科技獎」獎座(左圖),同時參加「2022未來科技館」展覽,並推廣獲獎技術(右圖為獎座與參展攤位海報)。獎座由國科會主委吳政忠親自頒贈,蘇忠楨教授團隊一起上台領獎(左圖左起)臺科大蘇忠傑教授、吳政忠主委、蘇忠楨教授及台大動科系博士生陳偉禎。

Professor Jung-Jeng Su was awarded the 2022 Future Tech Award by the National Science and Technology Council

After more than 10 years of research and technological breakthroughs, Professor Jung-Jeng Su,Department of Animal Science and Technology, interdisciplinary integration of Professor Jung-Chieh Su, Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology finally developed the "Benthic microbial fuel cell module (BMFC)". The BMFC module uses livestock wastewater as fuel and intends to be directly applied to the low-power consumption equipment in the "Smart livestock wastewater treatment system" that has been built in the commercial livestock farm in Yilan County, and was awarded, the 2022 Future Tech Award---SustainableGreen Energy and Advanced Materials, by the National Science and Technology Council on October 15, 2022".

The research team has directly applied piggery wastewater to the simple "double-chamber microbial fuel cell" research, the anode microbial population comes from the anaerobic sludge of the piggery wastewater treatment facility, and then the anode and cathode are connected to a rechargeable capacitor through the external circuit, and the current generated by the degradation of organic matter in piggery wastewater was calculated and analyzed by using the "Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)" approach. The analysis results showed that the current of this MFC is composed of direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC), which may be related to the behavior of the microbial population of the discharging (Su et al., 2019). This published paper has been cited in international journals with a high impact factor (Serra PMD and Espírito-Santo, 2021) and demonstrates the use of capacitors to store electrical energy from microbial fuel cells. The award-winning technology usesthe microcurrent generated by the self-designed vertical BMFCthat can be stored in the capacitor, and then connects multiple capacitors in seriesto provide rechargeable battery charging, and will supply low-power consumption devices for smart livestock wastewater treatment facilities soon.

Since 2018, with the support of the Smart Agriculture Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the research team has built the first intelligent pig wastewater treatment system facility in a commercial pig farm, Yilan County, and a remote water quality monitoring system combined with Internet of Things (IoT) technology (Su et al., 2020). This smart piggery wastewater treatment system is equipped with water quality sensors, data transmission through the Internet also needs to consume electricity, thus, short-term sedimentmicrobial fuel cells, designed suitable for anaerobic digesters as benthic microbial fuel cells, while properly treating piggery wastewater, can also recover biogas and microbial fuelcell’s electricity. Hopefully, the use of this renewable electricity can replace somepower demand required by some water quality sensors. The award also meets the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of SDG6 Clean Water and Sanitation, SDG7 Affordable, and Clean Energy, and SDG13 Climate Action.

 

 

Figure 1. Prof. Jung-Jeng Su was awarded the 2022 Future Tech Award by the National Science and Technology Council (Left photo) and participated in the 2022 Future Tech exhibition (The right photo shows the trophy and poster). The trophy was awarded by MinisterTsung-Tsong Wu and the research team was coming to the stage to accept the trophy (From Left to Right, Prof. Jung-Chieh Su, Minister Tsung-Tsong Wu, Prof. Jung-Jeng Su, and Wei-Chen Chen, doctoral student).

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