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JOURNAL OF ENERGY CHEMISTRY
Volume 81, Issue -, Pages 574-582Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jechem.2023.03.022
Keywords
Energy-saving hydrogen production; Hydrogen evolution reaction; Neutral water splitting; MoSe2; MoO2 heterostructure; Environmental recovery
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Combining electrocatalytic water splitting with waste iron upgrading reaction can improve energy conversion efficiency and achieve high-efficiency hydrogen production in neutral media. The heterostructured MoSe2/MoO2 on carbon cloth shows superior catalytic performance compared to commercial Pt/C catalyst at high current densities. Replacing conventional oxygen evolution reaction with waste iron upgrading reaction reduces the required potential by 95% for anodic current density of 10 mA cm-2. This work demonstrates energy-saving hydrogen production and pollutant recycling without carbon emission in a single system.
Electrocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production is hampered by the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and large power consumption and replacing the OER with thermodynamically favourable reactions can improve the energy conversion efficiency. Since iron corrodes easily and even self-corrodes to form magnetic iron oxide species and generate corrosion currents, a novel strategy to integrate the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) with waste Fe upgrading reaction (FUR) is proposed and demon-strated for energy-efficient hydrogen production in neutral media. The heterostructured MoSe2/MoO2 grown on carbon cloth (MSM/CC) shows superior HER performance to that of commercial Pt/C at high current densities. By replacing conventional OER with FUR, the potential required to afford the anodic current density of 10 mA cm-2 decreases by 95%. The HER/FUR overall reaction shows an ultralow voltage of 0.68 V for 10 mA cm-2 with a power equivalent of 2.69 kWh per m3 H2. Additionally, the Fe species formed at the anode extract the Rhodamine B (RhB) pollutant by flocculation and also produce nanosized magnetic powder and beneficiated RhB for value-adding applications. This work demonstrates both energy-saving hydrogen production and pollutant recycling without carbon emission by a single system and reveals a new direction to integrate hydrogen production with environmental recovery to achieve carbon neutrality.(c) 2023 Science Press and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. and Science Press. All rights reserved.
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