SEA WATER AS A POTENTIAL ELECTROLYTE IN BATTERY POWER CELL (original) (raw)

This project is to find the best solution of seawater as an electrolyte in battery cell for power generation. In order to generate power source, method of electrolysis was applied by using Aluminium and Copper as the negative and positive terminals respectively, the solution of sea water as an electrolyte and Copper (II) sulphate (CuSO4) as an additive. There were three conditions of experiment that were carried out, the i) changing size of Aluminium strips and Copper strips, ii) changing volume of seawater iii) different amount of Copper (II) sulphate (CuSO4). In the first condition, the result showed that the bigger the size of Copper strips, the higher the current value produced. While in the second condition, there was not much effect produced in current and voltage values. In the third condition, the addition of CuSO4 gave a large positive impact on the power cell. Judging by this experiment, it is decided to inject some amount of CuSO4 in the electrolysis. The main reason of injecting CuSO4 into the electrolysis in order to boost up the current value. Thus, the results showed that the combination of abundant amount of seawater with limited amount of Copper (II) sulphate solution (CuSO4) as an alternative source for future power cell generation.