electricity from sweat
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WELCOME
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ELECTRICITY FROM SWEAT
PREPARED BY
SANPRIYA RAMESH P, ANAGA C.D
3RD YEAR BIOTECHNOLOGY
METS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
OVERVIEW
Introduction.
History.
Literature review
Basic principle.
Components.
Construction.
Working.
Merits.
Demerits.
Applications.
Scope for future
Conclusion.
Reference
INTRODUCTION
• Our life style is completely dependent on electricity.
• Scarcity of electric energy is not so far.
• We have to think of new methods for generation of electricity for different
purposes.
• Researches proved that sweat can be used to produce electricity
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Different sources of electricity
ELECTRICAL ENERGYWATER
WIND
SUNLIGHTTIDAL
WAVES
NUCLEAR ENERGY
FOSSIL FUELS
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HISTORY
• It is one of the newly developed technology.
• Researchers from University of California & American Chemical Society is
working on power generation from sweat.
• Joseph Wang presented the idea, in the 248th National Conference of American
Chemical society.
• With the help of an enzyme they generated power from human perspiration.
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LITERATURE REVIEW
Batteries produce energy by passing current and the ability to generate electrical
power from human perspiration through the use of epidermal tattoo bio-fuel
cells.(‘Angewante Chemie’- Dr. W. Jia and et all).
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BASIC PRINCIPLE
• It works on the principle of harnessing the electrons, during lactate
oxidation, in an enzyme mediated reaction.
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COMPONENTS
A simple tattoo
Lactase oxidase enzyme at anode.
Platinum black at cathode.
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CONSTRUCTION
TATTOO TYPE:
• Carbon forms the base for the
tattoo.
• Anode is a matrix of TTF-LOx-
Chitosan.
• Cathode consist of platinum black
coated with Nafion layer.
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WORKING
• During intense physical activity, sweat gland produce sweat , which contain lactate.
• Lactate is oxidized by LOx .
• TTF(tetra thio fulvalene) is employed to promote low potential oxidation.
• Chitosan layer above LOx prevents its efflux.
• Nafion layer prevents direct platinum skin contact .
• The resulting electron flow is exploited to produce electricity, by means of anode and cathode provided.
• Energy can be extracted by means of 2 leads – one at anode and other at cathode , connected to a battery.
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Biological reaction
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MERITS
• Mobile phones can be charged while doing exercise.
• External power supply is not required .
• Does not cause skin irritation.
• Conventional energy sources can be preserved.
• Tiny, temporary, removable, external, inexpensive.
• Safer renewable source- no leakage of toxic chemicals
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DEMERITS
• Elasticity against mechanical stress and strain.
• Possible for low voltage application only.
• Lots of work is to be done in this field.
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APPLICATIONS
• Recharge mobile phone bytapping into the energy fromperspiration.
• Implementing as wrist
bands & head bands
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FUTURE ASPECTS
• We can hope for a more efficient production of power from artificially produced
sweat.
• It will cause revolution in the field of the renewable sources.
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CONCLUSION
• Power from human perspiration creates a new era with saving electricity.
• A lot of research is to be done in this field.
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REFERENCES
• G. Cizza, A. H. Marques, F. Eskandari, I. C. Christie, S. Torvik, M. N. Silverman, T. M. Phillips,and E. M. Sternberg, “Elevated neuroimmune biomarkers in sweat patches and plasma ofpremenopausal women with major depressive disorder in remission: the POWER study,”Biological psychiatry, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 907, 2008.
• M. J. Buono, C. S. White, and K. P. Connolly, “Cholinergic sensitivity of the eccrine sweat glandin trained and untrained men,” Journal of dermatological science, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 33-37, 1992.
• T. Guinovart, A. J. Bandodkar, J. R. Windmiller, F.J.Andrade,andJ.Wang,“Apotentiometric tattoosensor for monitoring ammonium insweat,” Analyst, vol. 138, no. 22, pp. 7031-7038, 2013.
• A. J. Bandodkar, D. Molinnus, O. Mirza, T. Guinovart, J. R. Windmiller,G.ValdésRamírez,F. J.Andrade, M. J. Schöning, and J. Wang,“Epidermal tattoo potentiometric sodium sensors withwireless signal transduction for continuous non-invasive sweat monitoring,” BiosensorsandBioelectronics, vol. 54, pp. 603-609, 2014.
• Dr. J. R. Windmiller, Prof. J. Wang “ Epidermal Biofuel Cells: Energy Harvesting from HumanPerspiration”-Angewante Chemie International edition, Department of Nanoengineering,University of California San Diego.
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THANK YOU
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