Aloe vera based electrolytic solution for environment friendly batteries

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Authors

Swamini Chopra¹ , Kavita Pande² , Abhay Deshmukh³

1. Center of Excellence in Materials and Metallurgy, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad
2. Matverse Vision Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur
3. Energy Devices Lab, Dept. of Physics, R.T.M. Nagpur University, Nagpur

Conference / event

RSC Twitter Poster Conference 2023, February 2023 (Virtual)

Poster summary

Electrical energy plays a major role in our daily life and its consumption is also unlimited. There are various ways to store the electricity generated, the most common of which is the use of acid batteries and portable dry batteries. The disposal of these batteries creates environmental hazard and are toxic to humans handling them as well. The aim of this project is to develop a non-toxic, environment friendly battery using non-conventional source, i.e. the Aloe-vera plant. The work was done to develop an Aloe-vera gel based electrolyte to generate electricity through metal electrodes like a conventional acid battery. The voltage generated by our set-up was 1.27V after 30 minutes of charging through a 5V charger. The electricity generated was enough for lighting a 1V LED bulb. The future of the project is to develop a higher capacity battery and to scale down the present set-up.

Keywords

Aloe vera, New electrolyte, Enviornmental firendly batteries

Research areas

Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Physics

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

Data sharing not applicable to this poster as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

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Copyright © 2023 Chopra et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.