Two-phase model of hydrogen transport to optimize nanoparticle catalyst loading for hydrogen evolution reaction
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2016-05-18
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en
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14
7568-7581
7568-7581
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International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 41, issue 18
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With electrocatalysts it is important to be able to distinguish between the effects of mass transport and reaction kinetics on the performance of the catalyst. When the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is considered, an additional and often neglected detail of mass transport in liquid is the evolution and transport of gaseous H2, since HER leads to the continuous formation of H2 bubbles near the electrode. We present a numerical model that includes the transport of both gaseous and dissolved H2, as well as mass exchange between them, and combine it with a kinetic model of HER at platinum (Pt) nanoparticle electrodes. We study the effect of the diffusion layer thickness and H2 dissolution rate constant on the importance of gaseous transport, and the effect of equilibrium hydrogen coverage and Pt loading on the kinetic and mass transport overpotentials. Gaseous transport becomes significant when the gas volume fraction is sufficiently high to facilitate H2 transfer to bubbles within a distance shorter than thediffusion layer thickness. At current densities below about 40 mA/cm2 the model reduces to an analytical approximation that has characteristics similar to the diffusion of H2. At higher current densities the increase in the gas volume fraction makes the H2 surface concentration nonlinear with respect to the current density. Compared to the typical diffusion layer model, our model is an extension that allows more detailed studies of reaction kinetics and mass transport in the electrolyte and the effects of gas bubbles on them.Description
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Gas transport, Hydrogen evolution reaction, Mass transport, Platinum
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Kemppainen , E , Halme , J , Hansen , O , Seger , B & Lund , P D 2016 , ' Two-phase model of hydrogen transport to optimize nanoparticle catalyst loading for hydrogen evolution reaction ' , International Journal of Hydrogen Energy , vol. 41 , no. 18 , pp. 7568-7581 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.12.207