Effect of applied potential on the performance of an electroactive methanogenic biocathode used for bioelectrochemical CO 2 reduction to CH 4

Author(s):  
I.A. Vasiliadou ◽  
A. Kalogiannis ◽  
A. Spyridonidis ◽  
A. Katsaounis ◽  
K. Stamatelatou
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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anas Alkayal ◽  
Volodymyr Tabas ◽  
Andrei V. Malkov ◽  
Benjamin Buckley

<div>The construction of carboxylic acid compounds in a selective fashion, from low value materials such as alkenes remains a long-standing challenge to synthetic chemists. In particular, anti-Markovnikov addition to styrenes are underdeveloped. Herein we report a new electrosynthetic approach to the selective hydrocarboxylation of substituted alkenes.</div>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anas Alkayal ◽  
Volodymyr Tabas ◽  
Andrei V. Malkov ◽  
Benjamin Buckley

<div>The construction of carboxylic acid compounds in a selective fashion, from low value materials such as alkenes remains a long-standing challenge to synthetic chemists. In particular, anti-Markovnikov addition to styrenes are underdeveloped. Herein we report a new electrosynthetic approach to the selective hydrocarboxylation of substituted alkenes.</div>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Bohra ◽  
Jehanzeb Chaudhry ◽  
Thomas Burdyny ◽  
Evgeny Pidko ◽  
wilson smith

<p>The environment of a CO<sub>2</sub> electroreduction (CO<sub>2</sub>ER) catalyst is intimately coupled with the surface reaction energetics and is therefore a critical aspect of the overall system performance. The immediate reaction environment of the electrocatalyst constitutes the electrical double layer (EDL) which extends a few nanometers into the electrolyte and screens the surface charge density. In this study, we resolve the species concentrations and potential profiles in the EDL of a CO<sub>2</sub>ER system by self-consistently solving the migration, diffusion and reaction phenomena using the generalized modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck (GMPNP) equations which include the effect of volume exclusion due to the solvated size of solution species. We demonstrate that the concentration of solvated cations builds at the outer Helmholtz plane (OHP) with increasing applied potential until the steric limit is reached. The formation of the EDL is expected to have important consequences for the transport of the CO<sub>2</sub> molecule to the catalyst surface. The electric field in the EDL diminishes the pH in the first 5 nm from the OHP, with an accumulation of protons and a concomitant depletion of hydroxide ions. This is a considerable departure from the results obtained using reaction-diffusion models where migration is ignored. Finally, we use the GMPNP model to compare the nature of the EDL for different alkali metal cations to show the effect of solvated size and polarization of water on the resultant electric field. Our results establish the significance of the EDL and electrostatic forces in defining the local reaction environment of CO<sub>2</sub> electrocatalysts.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 532
Author(s):  
Evgenios Kokkinos ◽  
Aggeliki Banti ◽  
Ioanna Mintsouli ◽  
Aikaterini Touni ◽  
Sotiris Sotiropoulos ◽  
...  

A combination of thermal (500–750 °C in air) and hydrometallurgical (acidic) treatments have been applied to dried tannery sludge, resulting in the initial conversion of Cr(III) to Cr(VI) and its subsequent leaching as wastewater with high Cr(VI) concentration content (3000–6000 mg/L), presenting an extraction efficiency over 90%. The optimal electrochemical conditions for the subsequent Cr(VI) reduction with respect to acid concentration and acid kind were established by applying appropriate rotating disc electrode (RDE) experiments, using a glassy carbon (GC) electrode, and found to be equal or higher than 0.5 M H2SO4 (for the respective Cr(III) concentration range studied). The result from leaching Cr(VI) wastewater was further treated in small electrochemical bench-scale reactor for its conversion back to Cr(III) form, potentially reusable in the tanning industry. Ti-based anodes and a reticulated vitreous carbon (RVC) cathode were used to treat small (350–800 mL) samples in batch, as well as in batch-recirculation prototype electrochemical reactors, under the application of constant current or appropriately applied potential to achieve Cr(VI) conversion/reduction efficiency over 95%.


Langmuir ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (18) ◽  
pp. 6055-6063
Author(s):  
Mary H. Wood ◽  
Elizabeth K. Humphreys ◽  
Rebecca J. L. Welbourn

2012 ◽  
Vol 571 ◽  
pp. 97-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Jing Li ◽  
Hui Ling Liu ◽  
Zhi Wei Wang ◽  
Xiu Wen Cheng

Electrolytically deposited palladium on polypyrrole film, which is electropolymerized using potentiostatic method, covered foam nickel electrode as a support was used as cathode for the electrocatalytic hydrodechlorination of 2, 4-dichlorophenol in aqueous solution. It is well known that the morphologies of polypyrrole films have dramatic influences on the dispersion of metals and the performance of the composite electrode. The influence of applied potential, temperature and polymerization time on the morphology of the films was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The fundamental electrocatalytic hydrodechlorination (ECH) results indicated that the electrocatalytic activity of Pd loaded polypyrrole foam nickel electrode is excellent for dechlorination of 2,4-dichlorophenol. The present study shows a promising choice of this kind of composite electrode for ECH.


2010 ◽  
Vol 26-28 ◽  
pp. 489-492
Author(s):  
Xuan Xiao ◽  
Jia Wei Bai ◽  
Wen Jie Zhang ◽  
Yuan Di Li

Photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) degradation efficiencies of a suspended TiO2 and Ti electrodes composite system in different ammonium salt solutions were investigated. Electrolyte type and concentration as well as the applied potential on the Ti electrodes had significant effects on photoelectrocatalytic degradation and electro-degradation efficiencies. PEC degradation and electro-degradation of methyl orange increased with increasing applied potential and electrolyte concentration. PEC degradation is much more powerful than electro-degradation. PEC degradation efficiency in (NH4)3PO4•3H2O solution is the highest 93.4%, whereas the efficiency in NH4Cl solution shows the worst 73.1%, which is even less than that of photocatalytic process alone. PEC degradation efficiencies in (NH4)2SO4 and NH4HCO3 solutions are 88.8% and 85.9% respectively, indicating no noticeable improvement compared with photocatalytic process.


2016 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 24-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphaël Rousseau ◽  
Catherine Santaella ◽  
Anaïs Bonnafous ◽  
Wafa Achouak ◽  
Jean-Jacques Godon ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
LIMING YU ◽  
FRANCIS E. H. TAY ◽  
GUOLIN XU ◽  
CIPRIAN ILIESCU ◽  
MARIOARA AVRAM

This paper presents a novel dielectrophoresis (DEP) device where the DEP electrodes define the channel walls. This is achieved by fabricating microfluidic channel walls from highly doped silicon so that they can also function as DEP electrodes. Compared with planar electrodes, this device increases the exhibited dielectrophoretic force on the particle, therefore decreases the applied potential and reduces the heating of the solution. A DEP device with triangle electrodes has been designed and fabricated. Compared with the other two configurations, semi-circular and square, triangle electrode presents an increased force, which can decrease the applied voltage and reduce the Joule effect. Yeast cells have been used to for testing the performance of the device.


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