期刊
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
卷 196, 期 10, 页码 4714-4718出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2011.01.045
关键词
Ethanol fuel cell; Ethanol oxidation; Pt/Sn; Pt/Ru and Pt catalysts; Oxygen permeation; Nafion membrane
资金
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland) [N N204 527739, Singapur/112/2007]
- Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)
We investigate oxygen permeation through Nafion 117 membrane in a direct ethanol fuel cell and elucidate how it affects the fuel cell efficiency. An obvious symptom of oxygen permeation is the presence of significant amounts of acetaldehyde and acetic acid in the mixture leaving anode when no current was drawn from the fuel cell (i.e. under the open circuit conditions). This parasitic process severely lowers efficiency of the fuel cell because ethanol is found to be directly oxidized on the surface of catalyst by oxygen coming through membrane from cathode in the absence of electric current flowing in the external circuit. Three commonly used carbon-supported anode catalysts are investigated, Pt, Pt/Ru and Pt/Sn. Products of ethanol oxidation are determined qualitatively and quantitatively at open circuit as a function of temperature and pressure, and we aim at determining whether the oxygen permeation or the catalyst's activity limits the parasitic ethanol oxidation. Our results strongly imply the need to develop more selective membranes that would be less oxygen permeable. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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