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Preliminary investigation on the electrochemical activity of butanol isomers as potential fuel for direct alcohol fuel cell

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posted on 2016-03-10, 15:52 authored by V.K. Puthiyapura, Daniel J.L. Brett, A.E. Russell, Wen-Feng LinWen-Feng Lin, Christopher Hardacre
© The Electrochemical Society. A preliminary investigation of electrocatalytic oxidation activity of butanol isomers has been carried out to study their potential as fuels for direct alcohol fuel cells. The electrochemical study was carried out on Pt and Pd electrodes using a three electrode cell set up in alkaline media. The primary alcohol isomers of butanol were observed to behave similarly in their electrochemical reactions whereas 2-butanol showed completely different oxidation features on both catalysts. For example, no poisoning effects were observed for 2- butanol unlike for the primary butanol isomers. In contrast, tert-butanol did not show any oxidation reaction on Pt and Pd electrodes. Furthermore, Pd was not active at all in acidic media for butanol oxidation. The reactivity of butanol isomers were found to be in the order n-butanol>iso-butanol>2-butanol>tert-butanol based on the oxidation current density values.

Funding

Author acknowledges the financial support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK (Grant number EP/K014706/1) and the UK Catalysis Hub.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

ECS Transactions

Volume

69

Issue

17

Pages

809 - 816

Citation

PUTHIYAPURA, V.K. ...et al., 2015. Preliminary investigation on the electrochemical activity of butanol isomers as potential fuel for direct alcohol fuel cell. ECS Transactions, 69(17), pp. 809-816.

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© The Electrochemical Society

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

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ISBN

9781607685395

ISSN

1938-5862

eISSN

1938-6737

Language

  • en

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