Durability Testing of Low-Iridium PEM Water Electrolysis Membrane Electrode Assemblies

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العنوان: Durability Testing of Low-Iridium PEM Water Electrolysis Membrane Electrode Assemblies
المؤلفون: Maximilian Möckl, Matthias F. Ernst, Matthias Kornherr, Frank Allebrod, Maximilian Bernt, Jan Byrknes, Christian Eickes, Christian Gebauer, Antonina Moskovtseva, Hubert A. Gasteiger
المصدر: Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169:064505
بيانات النشر: The Electrochemical Society, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: Fuel Cells, Electrolyzers, and Energy Conversion, Focus Issue on Advanced Electrolysis for Renewable Energy Storage, Proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE), PEMWE short stack durability testing, low iridium loading OER catalyst, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, ddc, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
الوصف: Lowering the iridium loading at the anode of proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyzers is crucial for the envisaged GW-scale deployment of PEM water electrolysis. Here, the durability of a novel iridium catalyst with a low iridium packing density, allowing for low iridium loadings without decreasing the electrode thickness, is being investigated in a 10-cell PEM water electrolyzer short stack. The anodes of the membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) of the first five cells utilize a conventional iridium catalyst, at loadings that serve as benchmark for today's industry standard (2 mgIr cm−2). The last five cells utilize the novel catalyst at 8-fold lower loadings (0.25 mgIr cm−2). The MEAs are based on Nafion® 117 and are tested for 3700 h by load cycling between 0.2 and 2.0 A cm−2, with weekly polarization curves and impedance diagnostics. For both catalysts, the performance degradation at low current densities is dominated by an increase of the overpotential for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), whereby the OER mass activity of the novel catalyst remains ≈4-fold higher after 3700 h. The temporal evolution of the OER mass activities of the two catalysts will be analyzed in order to assess the suitability of the novel catalyst for industrial application.
وصف الملف: application/pdf
تدمد: 1945-7111
0013-4651
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::20358dee17cb78762b287dafb35e2cb8
https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ac6d14
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....20358dee17cb78762b287dafb35e2cb8
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE