SCIENCE PROJECT

LEMON BATTERY

By:
ANGELY NIKOL QUISPE QUISPE

3 YEAR–DUCK

Huancayo–2019
 SUMMARY

Homemade batteries are batteries made with easily accessible materials and have
easy-to-follow preparation procedures, these batteries are based on conduction
of an electrolyte or electrode. The electrolyte will be the lemon and the electrode the copper and the metal of
nail.

These batteries are mainly used to reduce damage to the ozone layer and of
environment since they are non-polluting devices and useful when needed
to operate a device and there is no electrical power.

We will take advantage of clean, safe, renewable, inexhaustible energy sources.

continuously. Energy that does not pollute, and is becoming cheaper. Without exploiting the
nature, without emitting toxic gases

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Many projects and experiments have been carried out with the aim of using homemade batteries.
as a backup method or second option when needing electrical energy.
The problem posed is the following: to demonstrate the functioning of the stack and the reason for it.
its operation.

Batteries are polluting objects due to the material from which they are made.
material is contaminating for the Earth's crust, for the waters and also the other purpose
from this stack is to reduce the excessive consumption of electric energy from plants
electric

Most batteries are recyclable or renewable, but most people do not.

they recycle and prefer to throw it in the trash, the landfill is not yet equipped or
ready for battery recycling treatment, everyone in the world uses
batteries when discarded are millions of discarded batteries and are millions of
polluting objects for the environment.
 OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH

General Objective
Determine the creation of a homemade battery based on lemon to power devices.
low voltage electricals.

Specific Objectives
. Determine the use of homemade batteries to reduce environmental damage.
. Develop proposals for the implementation of home batteries for everyday use
daily in low voltage electrical devices.
. Inform about the polluting damage of household batteries.
. Informing that home energy recharges can be advantageous and disadvantageous for
the environment.
. Spread information about how beneficial the electrochemical process can be.
for the manufacture of homemade batteries.

FORMULATION OF HYPOTHESIS

. Is it possible to create a homemade battery using a citrus fruit as a conductor of energy?

electric
. It will be possible to check the effects of metals as electrodes when joined to the
lemon (electrolytic) producing electrical energy
. Variable System
. According to the aforementioned, the following variables have been presented:
. Independent Variable: effects of lemon
. Dependent variable: effects of copper and nails
. Intervening variable: number of lemons
. Voltage produced or electric energy produced

IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH

The project has been developed with the aim of proposing an alternative for the execution
from homemade batteries to power various electrical devices of not very high voltages that
It would be an ecological measure to run electrical devices without consuming electricity.
of plants and not use common batteries as they degrade and destroy the environment.

The work has an important purpose since it aims to provide an ecological alternative.
for people who make homemade batteries to power their electrical devices and not
If there is a need to generate electricity, homemade batteries are beneficial because they
The human being will contribute to rescuing the environment and will not have to spend money on batteries.
common and save your electricity bill.
 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Antecedentes

Figueroa A. (2008) conducted an experiment titled 'making a homemade battery with lemon'.

Vivaldi .T (2006) Carried out a project titled 'Demonstrate the electrochemical process through'
the making of a battery with lemon

The topics mentioned above are related to this project because

They explain and elaborate on a homemade battery and its functioning as electrochemical processes.

Lemon Battery

A lemon battery cell is made with a lemon and two metallic electrodes of various types.
metals. Technology is created by man in order to meet a need, this
Need is the cause of the evolution of technology. Technology is found in a
constant evolution and the objects that do not adapt simply disappear, that is to say,
As the needs become greater or let's say more complicated, it is necessary to create a
an object that can fill the void, which replaces the previous one, the practice, a single one
A lemon cell is unable to light a bulb. The lemon battery is an experiment.
proposed as a project in many science textbooks. It consists of inserting, in a
lemon, two different metallic objects, for example a nail and a copper coin. These
Two objects act as electrodes, causing a reaction that generates a small
amount of electricity.

A common alternative to lemons is potatoes or sometimes apples. Any fruit or

A plant that contains acid or another electrolyte can be used, but lemons are preferred.
due to its higher acidity. Other metal combinations (such as magnesium and copper) are more
efficient, but zinc and copper are usually used because they are reasonably safe
and easy to obtain.

Pila
An electric battery is a device that converts chemical energy into electrical energy through a
transitory chemical process, after which its activity ceases and its elements must be renewed
constituents, as their characteristics are altered during it. It is about
a primary generator. This energy becomes accessible through two terminals it has.
poles, called poles. One of them is the positive pole and the other is the negative pole. In Spanish
it has become customary to call it that, while the rechargeable device or accumulator,
It has come to be called a battery. Both cell and battery are terms derived from the
early days of electricity, when several elements were gathered—in the first
one case on top of another, 'stacked', and in the second side by side, 'in battery'—
as it is still done today, in order to increase the magnitude of the phenomena
electric and to study them systematically.
Copper
Copper (from the Latin cŭprum, and this from the Greek kýpros) is a transition metal of color
reddish and metallic shine that, along with silver and gold, is part of the so-called family of
Copper is characterized by being one of the best conductors of electricity. On the other hand, the
copper is a durable metal because it can be recycled an almost unlimited number of times without
that loses its properties mechanics

It was one of the first metals to be used by humans in prehistory. Starting from
of the 19th century, specifically from the invention of the electric generator in 1831 by Faraday, the
copper became a strategic metal again, being the main raw material for cables
and electrical installations.

Electricity
Electricity (from the Greek elektron, which means amber) is a physical phenomenon whose
origin are electric charges and whose energy is manifested in mechanical phenomena,
thermal, luminous and chemical, among others, in other words, it is the flow of electrons.

MATERIALS
The following materials will be needed for the preparation of this experiment:

. A watch without batteries.

. 3 lemons preferably large.
. 4 metal sheets or 4 thick nails.
. 4 electric cables.

PROCEDURE

Before starting, help from an adult will be needed to strip the ends of the wires with
a knife or cutter. Once this is done, we should place them inside the sheets and now that
They are ready, they will need to be placed on each lemon, that is, our lemons will be necessary.
that they are cut and added inside the lemons.

Now that they are inside the lemon and the wires are fixed to prevent this
if it does not work and the process has to be repeated, it should be verified.

As we finished analyzing and everything is in order, it is then that the tips

the remaining of our cable will be connected (if possible) or simply placed in the area
where the battery or cell of the clock is placed. Our clock will immediately appear to be working.
watch, if all the steps were done correctly.

It should be noted that the energy of lemons can end immediately, without
embargo, it all depends on the size of the fruit/vegetable we are using at that moment.
This is one of the basic concepts of how electric cars were created, how they
This type of energy is natural and does not affect the environment or nature.
 RESULTS AND ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS

The results were as expected. When following the instructions, it was possible to do it.
make the low-voltage clock work, this was due to the electrochemical process that took place
between the copper sheets, the nail, and the lemons. At the moment of attaching the wires, some with
others took a step of electrical energy from one another and when connecting the leftover ends
the clock could be made to work properly.

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Conclusions
Electric energy is the most used energy by humans and the most essential since
With it, electrical devices can be operated that meet basic needs.
of the human being.

When creating the lemon battery, a process was carried out transferring chemical energy.
converting it into electric energy, the energy so needed by human beings. The batteries
homemade are a second option to meet man's need which is the
operation of some electrical devices.

In conclusion, electricity is essential and needed to meet the needs of

Man, this energy is essential for human life but with pollution the
decrease of the seas, a device has been created to save this energy since
it could run out, but that is why there are second alternatives like homemade batteries that
they are an alternative tool to meet man's small needs in usage
of electrical appliances in their daily life

Recommendations
When making the cut, be careful and ensure safety to avoid cutting yourself.

Recycle the different types of batteries.

. Do not throw batteries and batteries in the fire, as they release toxic gases.
. Do not recharge the batteries unless their recharge is specifically indicated.
. Buy batteries that have the label: MERCURY FREE...
. No remove batteries a courses of water because it contaminates.
. Do not mix new batteries and old batteries.
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