Research Article
Degradation of Metal Ions with Electricity Generation by Using Fruit Waste as an Organic Substrate in the Microbial Fuel Cell
Table 2
Recorded degradation efficiency of metal ions in MFC.
| Organic substrate | Concentration of metal in chamber (ppm) | Operational days | Degradation percentage of Cr3+ | Degradation percentage of Co2+ | Degradation percentage of Ni2+ |
| Mango peel extract | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5 | 13.53 | 17.20 | 15.84 | 10 | 33.45 | 36.89 | 35.27 | 15 | 51.00 | 57.10 | 58.35 | 20 | 64.82 | 66.90 | 67.49 | 25 | 69.21 | 72.00 | 70.11 |
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