Journal
JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED PYROLYSIS
Volume 169, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaap.2022.105831
Keywords
Waste plastics; Carbon nanomaterial; Nickel foam; Energy storage; Pyrolysis
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This study investigates the energy storage potential of waste plastics-derived carbon nano-materials (CNMs), pyrolyzed directly on nickel foam coated with nickel alumina catalyst. The effect of increasing nickel to aluminum molar ratio on energy storage capacity is studied, and the results show that a molar ratio of 0.1 has the highest specific capacitance. The fabricated electrode using this method exhibits stability, durability, and higher performance than commercial CNMs, without the need for post-treatment. Therefore, this study presents a new approach to fabricating environmentally friendly and economically effective supercapacitors.
The pyrolytic liquid and gas products are extensively analyzed for practical applications, but, few applications exist for solid product from waste plastics pyrolysis. This study investigates energy storage potential of waste plastics-derived carbon nano-materials (CNMs), pyrolyzed directly on nickel foam (NF) coated with nickel alumina catalyst, in a two-stage fixed bed reactor. Effect of increasing nickel to aluminum molar ratio (0.05, 0.1, 0.2) in energy storage capacity is studied. Galvanostatic charge-discharge curves, at 0.125 A g-1, show highest specific capacitance of 153.75 F g-1 for 0.1 molar ratio. The reason for such high performance is mainly because of a) greater metal-support interaction by using NF substrate, b) formation of CNMs according to base-growth mechanism, providing metal free surface at the top, and c) the presence of equal amounts of disordered and ordered carbons, resulting in meso-and micro-porous structures, providing high electrolyte availability at the electrode surface. The retained rectangle shape of cyclic voltammetry (CV) curve after 5000 cycles, with 98.5 % capacitance retention, also exhibits stability and durability of produced electrode. Though the fabricated electrode involved no post-treatment, yet, it showed higher performance than commercial CNMs. Therefore, this study open new ways to fabricate environment friendly and economically effective supercapacitors.
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