Platinum and Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Truong Van Men, Julian Richard Tolchard, Jørgen Svendby, Maidhily Manikandan, Hamish A. Miller, Svein Sunde, Hsiharng Yang, Dario R. Dekel and Alejandro Oyarce Barnett
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Truong Van Men: Graduate Institute of Precision Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan
Julian Richard Tolchard: Sustainable Energy Department, SINTEF Industri, Postboks 4760 Torgarden, 7465 Trondheim, Norway
Jørgen Svendby: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Maidhily Manikandan: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Hamish A. Miller: Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organometallici (CNR-ICCOM), via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
Svein Sunde: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Hsiharng Yang: Graduate Institute of Precision Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan
Dario R. Dekel: The Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering and the Nancy & Stephan Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP), Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
Alejandro Oyarce Barnett: Sustainable Energy Department, SINTEF Industri, Postboks 4760 Torgarden, 7465 Trondheim, Norway

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-21

Abstract: The development of active hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts for use in anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs), which are free from platinum group metals (PGMs), is expected to bring this technology one step closer to commercial applications. This paper reports our recent progress developing HOR Pt-free and PGM-free catalysts (Pd/CeO 2 and NiCo/C, respectively), and ORR PGM-free Co 3 O 4 for AEMFCs. The catalysts were prepared by different synthesis techniques and characterized by both physical-chemical and electrochemical methods. A hydrothermally synthesized Co 3 O 4 + C composite ORR catalyst used in combination with Pt/C as HOR catalyst shows good H 2 /O 2 AEMFC performance (peak power density of ~388 mW cm −2 ), while the same catalyst coupled with our flame spray pyrolysis synthesised Pd/CeO 2 anode catalysts reaches peak power densities of ~309 mW cm −2 . Changing the anode to nanostructured NiCo/C catalyst, the performance is significantly reduced. This study confirms previous conclusions, that is indeed possible to develop high performing AEMFCs free from Pt; however, the challenge to achieve completely PGM-free AEMFCs still remains.

Keywords: non-Pt electrocatalyst; non-PGM electrocatalyst; hydrogen oxidation reaction; oxygen reduction reaction; alkaline fuel cell (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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