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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 45, Issue 58, Pages 33968-33979Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.09.023
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RSM; Optimization; Microfluidic fuel cell; Air breathing; Glycerol electrooxidation
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The present work focuses on the optimization of operating parameters using Box Behnken design (BBD) in RSM to obtain maximum power density from a glycerol based air-breathing T-shaped MFC. The major parameters influencing the experiment for enhancing the cell performance in MFC are glycerol/fuel concentration, anode electrolyte/KOH concentration, anode electrocatalyst loading and cathode electrolyte/KOH concentration. The ambient oxygen is used as the oxidant. The acetylene black carbon (C-AB) supported laboratory synthesized electrocatalyst Pd-Pt (16:4)/C-AB is used as anode electrocatalyst and commercial Pt (40 wt%)/C-HSA as the cathode electrocatalyst. The quadratic model predicts the appropriate operating conditions to achieve highest power density from the laboratory designed T-shaped MFC. The p-value of less than 0.0001 and F-value of greater than 1 i.e., 26.32 indicate that the model is significant. The optimum conditions predicted by the RSM model were glycerol concentration of 1.07 M, anode electrolyte concentration of 1.62 M anode electrocatalyst loading of 1.12 mg/cm(2) and cathode electrolyte concentration of 0.69 M. The negligible deviation of only 1.07% between actual/experimental power density (2.76 mW/cm(2)) and predicted power density (2.79 mW/cm(2)) was recorded. This model reasonably predicts the optimum conditions using Pd-Pt (16:4)/C-AB electrocatalyst to obtain maximum power density from glycerol based MFC. (C) 2020 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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