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3D-printed porous electrodes for advanced electrochemical flow reactors: a Ni/stainless steel electrode and its mass transport characteristics

3D-printed porous electrodes for advanced electrochemical flow reactors: a Ni/stainless steel electrode and its mass transport characteristics
3D-printed porous electrodes for advanced electrochemical flow reactors: a Ni/stainless steel electrode and its mass transport characteristics
Porous electrodes have shown high performance in industrial electrochemical processes and redox flow batteries for energy storage. These materials offer great advantages over planar electrodes in terms of larger surface area, superior space time yield and enhanced mass transport. In this work, a highly ordered porous stainless steel structure was manufactured by 3D-printing and coated with nickel from an acidic bath by electrodeposition in a divided rectangular channel flow cell. Following the electrodeposition, the volumetric mass transport coefficient of this electrode was determined by the electrochemical reduction of 1.0×10−3 mol dm−3 of ferricyanide ions by linear sweep voltammetry and chronoamperometry. The convection diffusion characteristics are compared with other geometries to demonstrate the novelty and the advantages of 3D-printed porous electrodes in electrochemical flow reactors. Robust porous electrodes with tailored surface area, composition, volumetric porosity and flow properties are possible.
additive manufacturing (AM), 3D-printing, electrochemical engineering, electrochemical flow reactor, mass transport, mass transport and electrode area, porous electrode, fluid flow, Stainless steel electrode, nickel electrode, electroplating
1388-2481
133-137
Arenas, L.F.
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Ponce De Leon, C.
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Walsh, F.C.
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Arenas, L.F.
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Ponce De Leon, C.
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Walsh, F.C.
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Arenas, L.F., Ponce De Leon, C. and Walsh, F.C. (2017) 3D-printed porous electrodes for advanced electrochemical flow reactors: a Ni/stainless steel electrode and its mass transport characteristics. Electrochemistry Communications, 77, 133-137. (doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2017.03.009).

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Porous electrodes have shown high performance in industrial electrochemical processes and redox flow batteries for energy storage. These materials offer great advantages over planar electrodes in terms of larger surface area, superior space time yield and enhanced mass transport. In this work, a highly ordered porous stainless steel structure was manufactured by 3D-printing and coated with nickel from an acidic bath by electrodeposition in a divided rectangular channel flow cell. Following the electrodeposition, the volumetric mass transport coefficient of this electrode was determined by the electrochemical reduction of 1.0×10−3 mol dm−3 of ferricyanide ions by linear sweep voltammetry and chronoamperometry. The convection diffusion characteristics are compared with other geometries to demonstrate the novelty and the advantages of 3D-printed porous electrodes in electrochemical flow reactors. Robust porous electrodes with tailored surface area, composition, volumetric porosity and flow properties are possible.

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3D-printed porous electrode - Arenas et al 10 March 2017 PURE - Accepted Manuscript
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Accepted/In Press date: 10 March 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 14 March 2017
Published date: April 2017
Keywords: additive manufacturing (AM), 3D-printing, electrochemical engineering, electrochemical flow reactor, mass transport, mass transport and electrode area, porous electrode, fluid flow, Stainless steel electrode, nickel electrode, electroplating
Organisations: Energy Technology Group, Education Hub

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Local EPrints ID: 407451
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/407451
ISSN: 1388-2481
PURE UUID: 607a840c-1a11-422e-abd8-1796db2ab212
ORCID for C. Ponce De Leon: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1907-5913

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Date deposited: 08 Apr 2017 01:03
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:12

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