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Hydrogen production on demand by redox-mediated electrocatalysis: A kinetic study

Reynard, Danick  
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Bolik-Coulon, Guillaume
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Maye, Sunny  
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March 1, 2021
Chemical Engineering Journal

Producing hydrogen from water using a redox mediator on solid electrocatalyst particles in a reactor offers several advantages over classical electrolysis in terms of safety, membrane degradation, purity and flexibility. Herein, vanadium-mediated hydrogen evolution on a commercial and low-cost Mo2C electrocatalyst is studied through the development of a reaction kinetics model. Based on a proposed mechanistic reaction scheme, we established a kinetic rate law dependent on the concentration of V2+, the state-of-charge of the vanadium electrolyte from a vanadium redox flow battery and the amount of available catalytic sites on solid Mo2C. Kinetic experiments in transient conditions reveals a first-order dependence on both the concentration of V2+ and the concentration of catalytic active sites and a power law with an exponential factor of 0.57 was measured on the molar ratio V2+/V3+, i.e. on the electrochemical driving force generated on the Mo2C particles. The kinetic rate law was validated by studying the rate of reaction in steady-state conditions using a specially developed rotating ring-disk device (RRD) methodology. The kinetic model was demonstrated to be a useful tool to predict the hydrogen production via the chemical oxidation of V2+ over Mo2C at low pH ( > 1 M H2SO4). For a perspective, the model was implemented in a semi-batch reactor. The simulations highlight the optimal state-of-charge (SOC) to carry out the reaction in an efficient way for a given demand in hydrogen.

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DOI
10.1016/j.cej.2020.126721
Web of Science ID

WOS:000607599400001

Author(s)
Reynard, Danick  
Bolik-Coulon, Guillaume
Maye, Sunny  
Girault, Hubert H.  
Date Issued

2021-03-01

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA

Published in
Chemical Engineering Journal
Volume

407

Article Number

126721

Subjects

Engineering, Environmental

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Engineering, Chemical

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Engineering

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her

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redox-mediated electrocatalysis

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vanadium

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mo2c catalyst

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kinetic study

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oxygen evolution

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water

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mos2

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economy

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