Int. Journal of Renewable Energy Development 7 (1) 2018: 53-58 Page | 53 © IJRED – ISSN: 2252-4940, February 15 th 2018, All rights reserved Contents list available at IJRED website Int. Journal of Renewable Energy Development (IJRED) Journal homepage: http://ejournal.undip.ac.id/index.php/ijred Scale Up Sediment Microbial Fuel Cell For Powering Led Lighting Jeetendra Prasad * , Ramesh Kumar Tripathi Department of Electrical Engineering Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh 211004, India ABSTRACT. Sediment microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) are expected to be utilized as a sustainable power source for remote environmental observing 30 day’s investigations of experiment to understand the long-term performance of SMFCs. The point of this investigation is to increase power generation, 8 individual sediment microbial fuel cells is stacked together either in series or in hybrid connection. Two combinations, of the hybrid connection, are proving to be the more effective one, step-up both the voltage and current of the framework, mutually. Polarization curve tests are done for series and hybrid connected sediment microbial fuel cell. The maximum study state voltage and current are obtained 8.150V and 435.25µA from series and 4.078V and 870.75µA hybrid connected SMFC. This study suggests that power of SMFC scale-up by connecting series and hybrid for practical use of the device. Keywords: sediment microbial fuel cell , series, hybrid connection, open circuit voltage, Power source Article History: Received : September 26 th 2017; Received: December 24 th 2017; Accepted: Januari 4 th 2018; Available online How to Cite This Article: Prasad, J and Tripathi, R.K. (2018) Scale Up Sediment Microbial Fuel Cell For Powering Led Lighting. International Journal of Renewable Energy Development, 7(1), 53-58. https://doi.org/10.14710/ijred.7.1.53-58 * Corresponding author: enjeetendra@gmail.com 1. Introduction Presently, expanding world population and expanding welfare, energy request worldwide is growing. Right now, jumble-sale of fossil fuels is unevenly appropriated over the world is being depleted, and is unsustainable. Sustainable renewable energy sources are accessible these days all have their disadvantages. They are climate subordinate (wind, solar power), contend with food/feed generation (some biofuels) or include high speculation costs. The present environmental change by CO2 production from burning of fossil fuels raises the resolution for renewable energy invention. Presently many researchers are working on various sustainable power sources such as solar energy, wind and geothermal (Panwar et al., 2011). But every one of these sources cannot be utilized in areas that don't have particular geological elements. Therefore, new innovations should be created to block this gap. Fuel cell innovation is a standout amongst the most encouraging lines since it proposes a one of a kind combination of advantages that make it a crucial innovation. Fuel cell is in a perfect world suited for extensive market fragments of our vitality framework without any pollution, have the high efficiency conversion of biochemical energy to electricity (Kreuer 2013).Over the previous decade, the progress of the microbial fuel cell (MFC) in biotechnological study offers a brand new innovation that turns biochemical energy of biological matter into electricity using micro-organisms as the substance (Aelterman et al., 2006, Lemuel et al., 1982, Reimers et al., 2001, Kim et al., 2002, Gil et al., 2003). Sediment microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) are expected to be utilized as a sustainable power source to activate remote sensors and electrical equipment for environmental observing (Dewan et al., 2014). Soil of lakes, rivers, and oceans used as electrolyte and generate power where needed without maintenance (Donovan et al., 2008, Tender et al., 2008, Reimer et al., 2001). The main advantages of SMFCs are that they do not generate toxic wastes, tiny maintenance necessity, long-term energy generation as well as in situ waste water treatment, while the batteries generally utilized for this reason are not relevant for a long time (Donovan et al., 2013, Zho et al., 2014, Ewing et al., 2014). The organic compounds in the sediment serve promising renewable fuel of electro- organic microbes