Conference Paper2019

Assessment of Ubiquitous Energy from Cow Urine

Md Wahidul Hasan, Whomaira Faarhin Durdana, Sajib Chakraborty, M Ashraful Amin

2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific (ITEC Asia-Pacific)

IEEE, pp. 1–4

  • Affordable and Clean Energy — Relevance: 91%
  • Responsible Consumption and Production — Relevance: 79%
DOI: 10.1109/itec-ap.2019.8903667URL

Abstract

This paper presents the impact of a new electricity production source: cow urine. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) ratio analysis and its implications applying waste management through recycling process of cow urine are also empirically analyzed in this paper. The proposed model works like a conventional battery system; however, no additional electricity is needed in this system as conventional batteries. Only the continued replacement of a fresh batch of cow urine is required for the system to generate electricity as a ubiquitous energy source. Load factor (λ) of the proposed system is 58.33%, which showed the potentiality of providing electricity in the remote areas through the proposed electricity source. Finally, the prototype result of the proposed system is shown that it is possible to lit up a household with LED lights for 6-8 hours/day using 18 liters of cow urine.

Keywords

  • cow urine
  • remote area electrification
  • life cycle assessment
  • bioelectricity generation
  • LED lighting
  • load factor
  • waste-to-energy
  • urine recycling

CCDS Authors

MD Wahidul Hasan, PhD
Md Wahidul Hasan, PhD

MD Wahidul Hasan, PhD

  • Collaborator, NEST Wing

Assistant Professor

+2 more affiliations

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Minnesota, Duluth

Research Interests

Next Gen Energy Storage

Prof. M Ashraful Amin, PhD
M Ashraful Amin, PhD

Prof. M Ashraful Amin, PhD

  • Founder Director, CCDS
  • Director, AI/ML, HCI & DS Wings

Professor

+1 more affiliation

Department of Information Sciences and Technology

George Mason University, USA

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECAI, WACV, PAKDD, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, HCII, CLEF, BLP, Scientific Reports, JMIR, IEEE Access, Smart Agricultural Technology, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Cognitive & Vision Science, Cybernetics, Surveillance & Security, ICT in Education, Health, & Agriculture, Human-Computer Interaction, Internet of Things, Robotics

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