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Flowable Nickel-Loaded Activated Carbon Cathodes for Hydrogen Production in Microbial Electrolysis Cells
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2655-7806
Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) can electrochemically produce green hydrogen from waste streams. However, cathode materials have been a bottleneck for the practical application of MECs due to difficulties in scale-up and high costs. To overcome current drawbacks, we have examined a novel flowable cathode in MECs, where nickel-loaded activated carbon (Ni/AC) powders were suspended in a buffering solution as a cathode without electrode fabrication processes. The Ni/AC flow cathode with higher Ni content and minimum Ni/AC loading (4 Ni-atom% and 0.125 wt-AC.%, Ni4/AC0.125) demonstrated the highest catalytic activities (−0.86 V vs Ag/AgCl at −10 A/m2) among Ni/AC flow cathodes tested. This result indicates that pseudocapacitive behavior toward Faradaic reactions can be promoted by increasing Ni loadings on Ni/AC particles. The MEC with a Ni4/AC0.125 flow cathode produced comparable hydrogen production rates (1.62 ± 0.15 L-H2/Lreactor-day) to the Pt control (1.64 ± 0.09 L-H2/L-day) and 40% higher than the blank (only current collector without Ni/AC, 1.29 ± 0.02 L-H2/L-day) at a 4 h cycle. The impacts of carbon black blending remain unclear; there was a 10% increase in hydrogen production rates with the lowest carbon black content (0.06 wt %) in the Ni/AC flow cathode, but hydrogen production rates were not further improved as carbon black content increased.
Flowable Nickel-Loaded Activated Carbon Cathodes for Hydrogen Production in Microbial Electrolysis Cells
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2655-7806
Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) can electrochemically produce green hydrogen from waste streams. However, cathode materials have been a bottleneck for the practical application of MECs due to difficulties in scale-up and high costs. To overcome current drawbacks, we have examined a novel flowable cathode in MECs, where nickel-loaded activated carbon (Ni/AC) powders were suspended in a buffering solution as a cathode without electrode fabrication processes. The Ni/AC flow cathode with higher Ni content and minimum Ni/AC loading (4 Ni-atom% and 0.125 wt-AC.%, Ni4/AC0.125) demonstrated the highest catalytic activities (−0.86 V vs Ag/AgCl at −10 A/m2) among Ni/AC flow cathodes tested. This result indicates that pseudocapacitive behavior toward Faradaic reactions can be promoted by increasing Ni loadings on Ni/AC particles. The MEC with a Ni4/AC0.125 flow cathode produced comparable hydrogen production rates (1.62 ± 0.15 L-H2/Lreactor-day) to the Pt control (1.64 ± 0.09 L-H2/L-day) and 40% higher than the blank (only current collector without Ni/AC, 1.29 ± 0.02 L-H2/L-day) at a 4 h cycle. The impacts of carbon black blending remain unclear; there was a 10% increase in hydrogen production rates with the lowest carbon black content (0.06 wt %) in the Ni/AC flow cathode, but hydrogen production rates were not further improved as carbon black content increased.
Flowable Nickel-Loaded Activated Carbon Cathodes for Hydrogen Production in Microbial Electrolysis Cells
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2655-7806
Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) can electrochemically produce green hydrogen from waste streams. However, cathode materials have been a bottleneck for the practical application of MECs due to difficulties in scale-up and high costs. To overcome current drawbacks, we have examined a novel flowable cathode in MECs, where nickel-loaded activated carbon (Ni/AC) powders were suspended in a buffering solution as a cathode without electrode fabrication processes. The Ni/AC flow cathode with higher Ni content and minimum Ni/AC loading (4 Ni-atom% and 0.125 wt-AC.%, Ni4/AC0.125) demonstrated the highest catalytic activities (−0.86 V vs Ag/AgCl at −10 A/m2) among Ni/AC flow cathodes tested. This result indicates that pseudocapacitive behavior toward Faradaic reactions can be promoted by increasing Ni loadings on Ni/AC particles. The MEC with a Ni4/AC0.125 flow cathode produced comparable hydrogen production rates (1.62 ± 0.15 L-H2/Lreactor-day) to the Pt control (1.64 ± 0.09 L-H2/L-day) and 40% higher than the blank (only current collector without Ni/AC, 1.29 ± 0.02 L-H2/L-day) at a 4 h cycle. The impacts of carbon black blending remain unclear; there was a 10% increase in hydrogen production rates with the lowest carbon black content (0.06 wt %) in the Ni/AC flow cathode, but hydrogen production rates were not further improved as carbon black content increased.
Flowable Nickel-Loaded Activated Carbon Cathodes for Hydrogen Production in Microbial Electrolysis Cells
Moreno-Jimenez, Daniel A. (author) / Kumaran, Yamini (author) / Efstathiadis, Harry (author) / Hwang, Moon-Hyun (author) / Jeon, Byong-Hun (author) / Kim, Kyoung-Yeol (author)
ACS ES&T Engineering ; 3 ; 1476-1485
2023-10-13
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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