CO2 electroreduction to formate: Continuous single-pass operation in a filter-press reactor at high current densities using Bi gas diffusion electrodes
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Título: | CO2 electroreduction to formate: Continuous single-pass operation in a filter-press reactor at high current densities using Bi gas diffusion electrodes |
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Autor/es: | Díaz-Sainz, Guillermo | Alvarez-Guerra, Manuel | Solla-Gullón, José | García Cruz, Leticia | Montiel, Vicente | Irabien, Ángel |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Electroquímica Aplicada y Electrocatálisis |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Química Física | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Electroquímica |
Palabras clave: | CO2electroreduction | Bismuth nanoparticles | Formate | GDEs (gas diffusion electrodes) | Continuous filter-press cell |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Química Física |
Fecha de publicación: | dic-2019 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | Journal of CO2 Utilization. 2019, 34: 12-19. doi:10.1016/j.jcou.2019.05.035 |
Resumen: | Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 has been taken into consideration as a fascinating option to store energy from intermittent renewable sources in the form of chemical value-added products. Among the different value-added products, formic acid or formate is particularly attractive since it can be used as a fuel for low-temperature fuel-cells and as a renewable hydrogen carrier. Very recently, a rapidly increasing number of studies have revealed Bi as a promising electrocatalytic material for the CO2 electroreduction to formate, but the performance of Bi electrodes operating in a continuous mode and high current density (j) has been hardly investigated yet. Thus, this work aims at studying the CO2 electroreduction to formate working in a continuous mode in a filter-press-reactor at a j up to 300 mA·cm−2 using Bi electrodes. Bismuth Gas Diffusion Electrodes (Bi-GDEs) were fabricated from carbon-supported Bismuth-nanoparticles. The influence of j and the electrolyte flow/area ratio in the performance of the Bi-GDEs towards formate were evaluated. Working at j of 300 mA·cm−2, a concentration of 5.2 g formate·L−1 with a faradaic efficiency (FE) and rate of 70% and 11 mmol·m−2·s−1, respectively were achieved. Lowering the j to 90 mA·cm−2, formate concentrations of up to 7.5 g·L−1 could be obtained with an excellent FE of 90%. Interestingly, the highest concentration of formate obtained was 18 g·L−1, but at expenses of an important decrease in FE. Although the results of this study are interesting and promising, further research is required to increase formate concentration for a future implementation at industrial scale. |
Patrocinador/es: | The authors of this work would like to show their gratitude to the financial support from the MINECO, through the projects CTQ2016-76231-C2-1-R and CTQ2016-76231-C2-2-R (AEI/FEDER, UE). Jose Solla-Gullón also acknowledges the financial support from VITC of the University of Alicante (UTALENTO16-02). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/92733 |
ISSN: | 2212-9820 (Print) | 2212-9839 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jcou.2019.05.035 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2019.05.035 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - LEQA - Artículos de Revistas |
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