An overview of flow cell architectures design and optimization for electrochemical CO2 reduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dui Ma ◽  
Ting Jin ◽  
Keyu Xie ◽  
Haitao Huang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Electrochemical Reduction ◽  
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Flow Cell ◽  
Design And Optimization ◽  
Electrochemical Co2 Reduction ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Levels

Converting CO2 into value-added fuels or chemical feedstocks through electrochemical reduction is one of the several promising avenues to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and alleviate global warming. This approach...

scholarly journals Positional effects of second-sphere amide pendants on electrochemical CO2 reduction catalyzed by iron porphyrins

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2952-2960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva M. Nichols ◽  
Jeffrey S. Derrick ◽  
Sepand K. Nistanaki ◽  
Peter T. Smith ◽  
Christopher J. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Electrochemical Reduction ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Iron Porphyrins ◽  
Electrochemical Co2 Reduction ◽  
Positional Effects

The development of catalysts for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide offers an attractive approach to transforming this greenhouse gas into value-added carbon products with sustainable energy input.

scholarly journals From Electricity to Fuels: Descriptors for C1 Selectivity in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tang ◽  
Hongjie Peng ◽  
Philomena Schlexer Lamoureux ◽  
Michal Bajdich ◽  
Frank Abild-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Electrochemical Reduction ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Reaction Network ◽  
Binding Energies ◽  
Complex Reaction ◽  
Applied Potential ◽  
Electrochemical Co2 Reduction ◽  
Reduced Products ◽  
Combine Evidence

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) over transition metals follows a complex reaction network. Even for products with a single carbon atom (C<sub>1</sub> products), two bifurcated pathways exist: initially between carboxyl (COOH*) and formate (HCOO*) intermediates and the COOH* intermediate is further bifurcated by pathways involving either formyl (CHO*) or COH*. In this study, we combine evidence from the experimental literature with a theoretical analysis of energetics to rationalize that not all steps in the reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> are electrochemical. This insight enables us to create a selectivity map for two-electron products (carbon monoxide (CO) and formate) on elemental metal surfaces using only the CO and OH binding energies as descriptors. In the further reduction of CO<sup>*</sup>, we find that CHO* is formed through a chemical step only whereas COH* follows from an electrochemical step. Notably on Cu(100), the COH pathway becomes dominant at an applied potential lower than −0.5V vs. RHE. For the elemental metals selective towards CO formation, the variation of the CO binding energy is sufficient to further subdivide the map into domains that predominantly form H<sub>2</sub>, CO, and ultimately more reduced products. We find Cu to be the only elemental metal capable of reducing CO<sub>2</sub> to products beyond 2e<sup>− </sup>via the proposed COH pathway and we identify atomic carbon as the key component leading to the production of methane. Our analysis also rationalizes experimentally observed differences in products between thermal and electrochemical reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> on Cu.

CuAg nanoparticles/carbon aerogel for electrochemical CO2 reduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenbo Wang ◽  
Runqing Lu ◽  
Xin-Xin Xiao ◽  
Shanhe Gong ◽  
Daniel Kobina Sam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Carbon Aerogel ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Reduction ◽  
Reduction Reaction ◽  
Electrochemical Co2 Reduction ◽  
Value Added Products

Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (eCO2RR) is a promising technology that uses electrical energy to catalytically reduce the greenhouse gas-CO2, which can convert CO2 into high value-added products such as...

Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethanol: From Mechanistic Understanding to Catalyst Design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tu Ngoc Nguyen ◽  
Jiaxun Guo ◽  
Ashwini Sachindran ◽  
Fengwang Li ◽  
Ali Seifitokaldani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Electrochemical Reduction ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Catalyst Design ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation ◽  
Electrochemical Co2 Reduction ◽  
Mechanistic Understanding ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to chemicals is gaining great attention as a pragmatic solution for greenhouse gas mitigation and for the utilization of CO2 to produce useful...

scholarly journals From Electricity to Fuels: Descriptors for C1 Selectivity in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tang ◽  
Hongjie Peng ◽  
Philomena Schlexer Lamoureux ◽  
Michal Bajdich ◽  
Frank Abild-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Electrochemical Reduction ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Reaction Network ◽  
Binding Energies ◽  
Complex Reaction ◽  
Applied Potential ◽  
Electrochemical Co2 Reduction ◽  
Reduced Products ◽  
Combine Evidence

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) over transition metals follows a complex reaction network. Even for products with a single carbon atom (C<sub>1</sub> products), two bifurcated pathways exist: initially between carboxyl (COOH*) and formate (HCOO*) intermediates and the COOH* intermediate is further bifurcated by pathways involving either formyl (CHO*) or COH*. In this study, we combine evidence from the experimental literature with a theoretical analysis of energetics to rationalize that not all steps in the reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> are electrochemical. This insight enables us to create a selectivity map for two-electron products (carbon monoxide (CO) and formate) on elemental metal surfaces using only the CO and OH binding energies as descriptors. In the further reduction of CO<sup>*</sup>, we find that CHO* is formed through a chemical step only whereas COH* follows from an electrochemical step. Notably on Cu(100), the COH pathway becomes dominant at an applied potential lower than −0.5V vs. RHE. For the elemental metals selective towards CO formation, the variation of the CO binding energy is sufficient to further subdivide the map into domains that predominantly form H<sub>2</sub>, CO, and ultimately more reduced products. We find Cu to be the only elemental metal capable of reducing CO<sub>2</sub> to products beyond 2e<sup>− </sup>via the proposed COH pathway and we identify atomic carbon as the key component leading to the production of methane. Our analysis also rationalizes experimentally observed differences in products between thermal and electrochemical reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> on Cu.

scholarly journals Core-Shell ZnO@Cu2O as Catalyst to Enhance the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to C2 Products

Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 535
Author(s):  
Shuaikang Zhu ◽  
Xiaona Ren ◽  
Xiaoxue Li ◽  
Xiaopo Niu ◽  
Miao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Current Density ◽  
High Selectivity ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Flow Cell ◽  
Core Shell ◽  
Electrochemical Co2 Reduction ◽  
Total Current Density ◽  
Core Shell Structure ◽  
Copper Based Catalyst

The copper-based catalyst is considered to be the only catalyst for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction to produce a variety of hydrocarbons, but its low selectivity and low current density to C2 products restrict its development. Herein, a core-shell xZnO@yCu2O catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction was fabricated via a two-step route. The high selectivity of C2 products of 49.8% on ZnO@4Cu2O (ethylene 33.5%, ethanol 16.3%) with an excellent total current density of 140.1 mA cm−2 was achieved over this core-shell structure catalyst in a flow cell, in which the C2 selectivity was twice that of Cu2O. The high electrochemical activity for ECR to C2 products was attributed to the synergetic effects of the ZnO core and Cu2O shell, which not only enhanced the selectivity of the coordinating electron, improved the HER overpotential, and fastened the electron transfer, but also promoted the multielectron involved kinetics for ethylene and ethanol production. This work provides some new insights into the design of highly efficient Cu-based electrocatalysts for enhancing the selectivity of electrochemical CO2 reduction to produce high-value C2 products.

Inhibition of Hydrogen Evolution without Debilitating Electrochemical CO2 Reduction via the Local Suppression of Proton Concentration and Blocking of Step-edges by Pyridine Functionalization on Cu Electrocatalysts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok Kumar Ummireddi ◽  
Shilendra Kumar Sharma ◽  
Raj Ganesh Pala
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Hydrogen Evolution ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Reduction ◽  
Reduction Reaction ◽  
Renewable Electricity ◽  
Proton Concentration ◽  
Electrochemical Co2 Reduction ◽  
Step Edges

Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) to chemicals can store renewable electricity and simultaneously control global warming. Albeit inexpensive copper electro-catalyzing CO2 to hydrocarbons at reasonable rates, it suffers from...

scholarly journals Snowfall-albedo feedbacks could have led to deglaciation of snowball Earth starting from mid-latitudes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp de Vrese ◽  
Tobias Stacke ◽  
Jeremy Caves Rugenstein ◽  
Jason Goodman ◽  
Victor Brovkin
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Dust Deposition ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Concentrations ◽  
Maximum Temperatures ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Levels ◽  
Earth’S Climate

AbstractSimple and complex climate models suggest a hard snowball – a completely ice-covered planet – is one of the steady-states of Earth’s climate. However, a seemingly insurmountable challenge to the hard-snowball hypothesis lies in the difficulty in explaining how the planet could have exited the glaciated state within a realistic range of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Here, we use simulations with the Earth system model MPI-ESM to demonstrate that terminal deglaciation could have been triggered by high dust deposition fluxes. In these simulations, deglaciation is not initiated in the tropics, where a strong hydrological cycle constantly regenerates fresh snow at the surface, which limits the dust accumulation and snow aging, resulting in a high surface albedo. Instead, comparatively low precipitation rates in the mid-latitudes in combination with high maximum temperatures facilitate lower albedos and snow dynamics that – for extreme dust fluxes – trigger deglaciation even at present-day carbon dioxide levels.

Atomic-level engineering of two-dimensional electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Shao ◽  
Xiaodong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Atomic Level ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Excessive Consumption

Carbon dioxide (CO2) from the excessive consumption of fossil fuels has exhibited a huge threat to the planet’s ecosystem. Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction into value-added chemicals have been regarded as a...

Hierarchical three-dimensional copper selenide nanocubes microelectrodes for improved carbon dioxide reduction reaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajasekaran Elakkiya ◽  
Govindhan Maduraiveeran
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Reduction ◽  
Reduction Reaction ◽  
Earth Abundant ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2 ◽  
Co2 Reduction Reaction

Design of high-performance and Earth-abundant electrocatalysts for electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction reaction (CO2RR) into fuels and value-added chemicals offers an emergent pathway for environment and energy sustainable concerns. Herein,...

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