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Reduction of dissolved oxygen at a copper rotating disc electrode

Reduction of dissolved oxygen at a copper rotating disc electrode
Reduction of dissolved oxygen at a copper rotating disc electrode
Undergraduates from chemical engineering, applied chemistry, and environmental science courses, together with first-year postgraduate research students in electrochemical technology, are provided with an experiment that demonstrates the reduction of dissolved oxygen in aerated seawater at 25°C. Oxygen reduction is examined using linear sweep voltammetry (i.e., the recording of steady-state current vs. electrode potential curves at a constant potential sweep rate).
The use of forced convection to a smooth, rotating disc electrode (RDE) of 3.8 mm diameter (area = 0.113 cm2) in laminar flow provides control of the rate of mass transport of dissolved oxygen toward the cathode surface. The use of rotation speeds in the range of 200-9500 revolutions per minutes (angular velocity of 20-1000 rad s-1) allows a linear (Levich) plot of limiting current vs. the square root of rotation speed to be made. From the slope of this plot, the diffusion coefficient of oxygen can be calculated as (1.5 ± 0.2) x 10-5 cm2 s-1 at 25°C.
0009-2479
14-21
Kear, Gareth
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Ponce de Leon Albarr, Carlos
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Walsh, Frank C.
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Kear, Gareth
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Ponce de Leon Albarr, Carlos
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Walsh, Frank C.
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Kear, Gareth, Ponce de Leon Albarr, Carlos and Walsh, Frank C. (2005) Reduction of dissolved oxygen at a copper rotating disc electrode. Chemical Engineering Education, 39 (1), 14-21.

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Undergraduates from chemical engineering, applied chemistry, and environmental science courses, together with first-year postgraduate research students in electrochemical technology, are provided with an experiment that demonstrates the reduction of dissolved oxygen in aerated seawater at 25°C. Oxygen reduction is examined using linear sweep voltammetry (i.e., the recording of steady-state current vs. electrode potential curves at a constant potential sweep rate).
The use of forced convection to a smooth, rotating disc electrode (RDE) of 3.8 mm diameter (area = 0.113 cm2) in laminar flow provides control of the rate of mass transport of dissolved oxygen toward the cathode surface. The use of rotation speeds in the range of 200-9500 revolutions per minutes (angular velocity of 20-1000 rad s-1) allows a linear (Levich) plot of limiting current vs. the square root of rotation speed to be made. From the slope of this plot, the diffusion coefficient of oxygen can be calculated as (1.5 ± 0.2) x 10-5 cm2 s-1 at 25°C.

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Published date: 2005

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Local EPrints ID: 23183
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/23183
ISSN: 0009-2479
PURE UUID: 2820fc04-f4cd-409b-ba35-7a192359617f
ORCID for Carlos Ponce de Leon Albarr: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1907-5913

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Date deposited: 15 Mar 2006
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:43

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Author: Gareth Kear
Author: Frank C. Walsh

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