The main objective of this work was the design and construction of a bio-based novel photovoltaic. For this purpose, two prototypes were designed and constructed. The first was an efficient extraction prototype of active pigments, and then the validation of the pureness of the extracted pigments took place by using the Ultra Violet Visible region (UV-V) spectra and Infra-Red (IR) spectrum. And, the second prototype as novel bio-photovoltaic hydrogen cell (NB-PV) was consisting of three glass sections donor, acceptor and membrane. These sections were containing a certain water type dissolved active pigments extracted from spinach (Spinacia Oleracea) by using the first prototype. So, both water dissolved chlorophyll a (Chl a) and chlorophyll b (Chl b), and the water dissolved pheophytin (pheo) were contained in the donor and acceptor sections respectively. In addition, the third section enclosed a precipitated ferredoxin (Fd) on rice straw as membrane. The membrane design allowed only electron transportation from donor section to the acceptor section. This second prototype was used also for water dissociation (2H+ and O-) as byproducts of such novel cell. Hence, the performance of the novel cell was determined based on measuring the average output voltage and lifetime of such cell. The experimental program was designed to investigate different variables that affect the performance of the present cell such as operating pressure, water type and light intensity. The results showed that the average voltage output flux diminishes with any slight increase of the operating pressure above the atmospheric one. The maximum values of the output flux were achieved when the active pigments were dissolved in sea water (SW). The results also, indicated that the light intensity had a minimal effect on the average voltage output flux.
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Chlorophylls, Pheophytin, Ferredoxin, UV-V Spectra, IR Spectrum, Bio-Photovoltaic, Hydrogen, Photosynthesis
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author = {Osayed S. M. Abu-Elyazeed and Mohamed A. El-Sayed and Youssef A. Attai and Mohamed A. Nawar and Hatem M. Sadek},
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abstract = {The main objective of this work was the design and construction of a bio-based novel photovoltaic. For this purpose, two prototypes were designed and constructed. The first was an efficient extraction prototype of active pigments, and then the validation of the pureness of the extracted pigments took place by using the Ultra Violet Visible region (UV-V) spectra and Infra-Red (IR) spectrum. And, the second prototype as novel bio-photovoltaic hydrogen cell (NB-PV) was consisting of three glass sections donor, acceptor and membrane. These sections were containing a certain water type dissolved active pigments extracted from spinach (Spinacia Oleracea) by using the first prototype. So, both water dissolved chlorophyll a (Chl a) and chlorophyll b (Chl b), and the water dissolved pheophytin (pheo) were contained in the donor and acceptor sections respectively. In addition, the third section enclosed a precipitated ferredoxin (Fd) on rice straw as membrane. The membrane design allowed only electron transportation from donor section to the acceptor section. This second prototype was used also for water dissociation (2H+ and O-) as byproducts of such novel cell. Hence, the performance of the novel cell was determined based on measuring the average output voltage and lifetime of such cell. The experimental program was designed to investigate different variables that affect the performance of the present cell such as operating pressure, water type and light intensity. The results showed that the average voltage output flux diminishes with any slight increase of the operating pressure above the atmospheric one. The maximum values of the output flux were achieved when the active pigments were dissolved in sea water (SW). The results also, indicated that the light intensity had a minimal effect on the average voltage output flux.},
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