Scanning Acoustic Microscopy for Quantifying Two-phase Transfer in Operando Alkaline Water Electrolyzer

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Scanning Acoustic Microscopy for Quantifying Two-phase Transfer in Operando Alkaline Water Electrolyzer
المؤلفون: Dou, Zehua, Rox, Hannes, Ramos, Zyzi, Baumann, Robert, Ravishankar, Rachappa, Czurratis, Peter, Yang, Xuegeng, Lasagni, Andrés Fabian, Eckert, Kerstin, Czarske, Juergen, Weik, David
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Applied Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
الوصف: Improved understandings of two-phase transport in electrochemical gas-evolving systems are increasingly demanded, while high-performance imaging techniques using simplified instrumentations are not readily available. This work presents volumetric scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) imaging for quantifying the dynamics of gas bubbles and electrolyte in porous Nickel electrodes with different wettability and structures during alkaline water electrolysis (AWE). We realize high-resolution 3D imaging at 10's um level using high frequency spherically focused ultrasound. The high resolution allowed us to clearly visualize the spatial distributions of produced bubbles in the porous electrodes over time. Moreover, we are able to quantify the residual gas volume in an electrode and its coverage due to bubble evolution, which dominate its transport overpotential. Taking these advantages, we elucidate the impacts of electrodes' wettability and structures on their electrolysis performance, on a regular laboratory base. The obtained knowledge provides us important optimization guidelines of AWE designs and operating schemes.
Comment: Research artical on an emerging field. 33 pages, 6 figures, 61 references, 10 supplementary figures available. Journal submission in progress
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10716
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2405.10716
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv