期刊
JOURNAL OF CO2 UTILIZATION
卷 40, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2020.101193
关键词
Renewable energy; Molten salt electrolysis; Applied voltage; CO2/H2O; Hydrocarbon fuels; Electrochemical conversion; Carbon dioxide capture
资金
- EPSRC [EP/J000582/1, EP/F026412/1]
- Ningbo Municipal People's Government [2014A35001-1]
- Ningbo Municipal People's Government (3315 Plan)
- EPSRC [EP/J000582/1, EP/F026412/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The emission of CO2 has been increasing day by day by growing world population, which resulted in the atmospheric and environmental destruction. Conventionally different strategies, including nuclear power and geothermal energy have been adopted to convert atmospheric CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels. However, these methods are very complicated due to large amount of radioactive waste from the reprocessing plant. The present study investigated the effect of various parameters like temperature (200-500 degrees C), applied voltage (1.5-3.0 V), and feed gas (CO2/H2O) composition of 1, 9.2, and 15.6 in hydrocarbon fuel formation in molten carbonate (Li2CO3-Na2CO3-K2CO3; 43.5:31.5:25 mol%) and hydroxide (LiOH-NaOH; 27:73 and KOH-NaOH; 50:50 mol%) salts. The GC results reported that CH4 was the predominant hydrocarbon product with a lower CO2/H2O ratio (9.2) at 275 degrees C under 3 V in molten hydroxide (LiOH-NaOH). The results also showed that by increasing electrolysis temperature from 425 to 500 degrees C, the number of carbon atoms in hydrocarbon species rose to 7 (C7H16) with a production rate of 1.5 mu mol/h cm(2) at CO2/H2O ratio of 9.2. Moreover, the electrolysis to produce hydrocarbons in molten carbonates was more feasible at 1.5 V than 2 V due to the prospective carbon formation. While in molten hydroxide, the CH4 production rate (0.80-20.40 mu mol/h cm(2)) increased by increasing the applied voltage from 2.0-3.0 V despite the reduced current efficiencies (2.30 to 0.05%). The maximum current efficiency (99.5%) was achieved for H-2 as a by-product in molten hydroxide (LiOH-NaOH; 27:73 mol%) at 275 degrees C, under 2 V and CO2/H2O ratio of 1. Resultantly, the practice of molten salts could be a promising and encouraging technology for further fundamental investigation for hydrocarbon fuel formation due to its fast-electrolytic conversion rate and no utilization of catalyst.
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