Chicken Eggshell-Based Capacitors: Fabrication and Evaluation of Their Performances for Engineering Application

Levi Oye¹ , Nsikak Edet Ekpenyong² , Aniefiok Otu Akpan³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.12 , Issue.6 , pp.19-28, Dec-2024

Online published on Dec 31, 2024

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Abstract :
Chicken eggshells are usually generated in very quantities but majorly under-utilised. This situation warrants discharging them indiscriminately into the environments. Consequently, this disposal technique pollutes the environment and also causes breeding of disease-carrying organisms, thus posing severe adverse effects on public health. In this work, chicken eggshells were gathered and processed into powdery form at three different ages (storage times) such as 5, 15, and 30 days. The chicken eggshell powder (CEP) in each case was used as dielectric material to fabricate capacitor. The dispersing medium used in the fabrication process was slurry prepared from dry cassava starch (DCS). Five capacitor samples were developed for each considered age. The CEP, DCS, and fabricated capacitor samples were assessed for their potentials. The Carr’s index of the CEP was found to be approximately 9.00 % whereas that of the DCS was about 11.41 %. Over the temperature range of 20 oC to 70 oC, the capacitance of the capacitor samples decreased from 8.93 to 4.62, 7.66 to 2.15, and 5.59 to 1.84 (all in nF) for the eggshells processed at the age of 5, 15, and 30 days respectively. The temperature coefficients of capacitance for the same trend in age variation were - 0.97, - 1.44, and -1.44 (%/oC ) based on JIS standard and also – 0.90, - 1.39, and – 1.34 (%/oC ) based on EIA protocols. The overall relative permittivity decreased from 9137 to 1883 as temperature of the samples increased over the considered range. Statistically, the relative permittivity values between the CEP of 15 days and that of 30 days only were revealed to be insignificantly different. The capacitor samples exhibited good performance abilities when compared experimentally with conventional ceramic capacitors.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Capacitance, Cassava effluent, Flowability, Recycling, Relative permittivity, Waste, Storage times

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