1105 results about "Anode catalyst" patented technology

A platinum/ruthenium alloy catalyst that includes finely dispersed alloy particles on a powdery, electrically conductive carrier material. The catalyst is particularly resistant to carbon monoxide poisoning when the alloy particles display mean crystallite sizes of 0.5 to less than 2 nm.

The invention is a hydrogen passivation shut down system for a fuel cell power plant (10). An anode flow path (24) is in fluid communication with an anode catalyst (14) for directing hydrogen fuel to flow adjacent to the anode catalyst (14), and a cathode flow path (38) is in fluid communication with a cathode catalyst (16) for directing an oxidant to flow adjacent to the cathode catalyst (16) of a fuel cell (12). Hydrogen fuel is permitted to transfer between the anode flow path (24) and the cathode flow path (38). A hydrogen reservoir (66) is secured in fluid communication with the anode flow path (24) for receiving and storing hydrogen during fuel cell (12) operation, and for releasing the hydrogen into fuel cell (12) whenever the fuel cell (12) is shut down.

The invention is a fuel cell (20) having a corrosion resistant and protected cathode catalyst layer (24). The cathode catalyst layer (24) includes a platinum oxygen reduction catalyst and an oxygen evolution catalyst selected from the group consisting of catalysts that are more active than platinum for oxygen evolution. The oxygen evolution catalyst may be uniformly applied within the cathode catalyst layer, or non-uniformly applied to identified high corrosion areas (82) (84) of the cathode catalyst layer (24). The cathode catalyst layer (24) may include heat-treated carbon support material, and/or a heat-treated carbon black within a diffusion layer (40) supporting the cathode catalyst layer (24). The fuel cell (20) may also include an anode catalyst layer (22) having a poor oxygen reduction catalyst having a greater oxygen reduction over potential than platinum.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a nanometer Pd or the Pd platinum gold electrocatalysis catalyzer which is used in a kind of fuel cell, whose characteristic lies in that dissolve the mixture of the ration Pd salt or the Pd salt and the platinum salt (in which the Pd atomic ratio accounts for metal quantity 10-100%) in the water, after joining the right amount complexing agent solution, elevates temperature to 0-80deg.C and keeps the temperature 5 minutes to 8 hours, then cooling to the room temperature, adjusts the pH value to 5 to 12 and adds the carbon carrier, then adds the solution of hydroboration sodium, hydrazine or formic acid and so on reducing agent under the 0 to 80deg.C , and maintains 10 minutes to 10 hours, then filtrating, laundering, dry, finally in inert atmosphere or reducing atmosphere through 100 to 300deg.C heat treatment in 0.5 to 10h, namely carries the carbon Pd or the Pd platinum electrocatalysis. The particle size of catalyst is controllable, adjustable, the composition is controllable, regards the heat treatment temperature to be different, the particle size which obtains is relatively 1.8nm to 20nm above, and the granule distribution is narrow, is suitable to serve as the direct formic acid fuel cell anode catalyst as well as the direct methanol fuel cell anti-methyl alcohol negative pole catalyst.

The invention provides preparation of a carbon nanotube material embedded with a quantum-dot modified metal organic framework. The preparation comprises the following steps of firstly, adding a certain amount of powder quantum dots to a formed metal organic framework precursor solvent so that the quantum dots of which the diameters are matched with the sizes of pore passages are embedded into the pore passages of the formed metal organic framework; secondly, uniformly mixing the obtained quantum-dot modified metal organic framework and melamine powder, and performing high-temperature processing to obtain a composite material (QD/UMCM-1@CNT) in a carbon nanotube embedded with the quantum-dot modified metal organic framework; and finally, enabling Pt to be loaded on a surface of the composite material carbon nanotube (Pt/QD/UMCM-1@CNT) by microwave radiation heating to be used as a positive electrode catalyst of a methanol fuel cell. Compared with a traditional hydrothermal method for synthesis of the carbon nanotube, the quantum-dot modified metal organic framework obtained by high-temperature processing is embedded into the composite material in the carbon nanotube, the structural aspects such as the length and the diameter of the carbon nanotube are more consistent, and a catalyst substrate with a unified structure is easier to form.

This invention pertains to improved formulations of platinum-molybdenum alloys for use as anode catalysts. These electrocatalysts find utility as a constituent of gas diffusion electrodes for use in fuel cells that operate at less than 180 DEG C. or in applications whereupon hydrogen is oxidized in the presence of carbon monoxide or other platinum inhibiting substances. The new formulations derive unexpected activity through creating highly dispersed alloy particles of up to approximately 300 ANGSTROM on carbon supports. The desired activity is achieved by carefully controlling the platinum to molybdenum ratio during preparation and judiciously selecting a proper loading of alloy on the carbon support.

An anode catalyst contains gold fine particles, and/or at least one member selected from the group consisting of titanium, vanadium, gallium, zirconium, niobium, cerium, tantalum, indium, and the oxides of these metals, and/or at least one member selected from the group consisting of platinum, ruthenium, and ruthenium oxides are coated on a conductive support.

A fuel cell includes a cathode catalyst layer, an anode catalyst layer, a proton-conductive membrane provided between the cathode catalyst layer and the anode catalyst layer, and a fuel transmitting layer that supplies a vaporized component of a liquid fuel to the anode catalyst layer. Water generated in the cathode catalyst layer is supplied to the anode catalyst layer via the proton-conductive membrane. The liquid fuel is one of a methanol aqueous solution having a concentration of over 50% by molar and liquid methanol.

The present invention provides a solid oxide fuel cell with superior power generation characteristics even at lower temperatures (for example, in a range of 200° C. to 600° C. and preferably in a range of 400° C. to 600° C.) and a method for manufacturing the same. The solid oxide fuel cell is such that the solid oxide fuel cell includes an anode, a cathode, and a first solid oxide held between the anode and the cathode, the anode includes metal particles (2), an anode catalyst (1), and ion conducting bodies (3), the anode catalyst (1) is attached to the surface of the metal particles (2), and the first solid oxide and the ion conducting bodies (3) have either one of an ionic conductivity that is selected from oxide ionic conductivity and hydrogen ionic conductivity.

The invention discloses a preparation method of PtRu/graphene nano electro-catalyst, comprising the following steps of: ultrasonically dispersing oxidized nano graphite sheets into liquid polylol; then adding a chloroplatinic acid solution and a sodium acetate solution, sufficiently mixing, wherein the content of the oxidized nano graphite sheets contained in a mixture is 0.3-1.1 g/L, the concentration of chloroplatinic acid is 0.0004-0.002 mol/L, the concentration of ruthenium chloride is 0.0004-0.0013 mol/L, and the concentration of sodium acetate is 0.005-0.027 mol/L; transferring the mixture to a microwave hydro-thermal reaction kettle for microwave hydro-thermal reaction for 5-10 minutes; and filtering, washing and drying to obtain the PtRu/graphene nano electro-catalyst, wherein the mass fraction of a PtRu alloy contained in the PtRu/graphene nano electro-catalyst is 20-40 percent, the mass fraction of graphene is 80-60 percent, the atomic ratio of the PtRu alloy is Pt:Ru=1:2-1.5:1, and the liquid polylol is propanetriol or glycol. The preparation method has energy saving, fastness, simple process, and the like; and in addition, the prepared PtRu/graphene nano electro-catalyst has good electrocatalysis property for the oxidation of methanol and ethanol and is widely used as anode catalysts of direct methanol fuel cells.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a two-dimensional titanium carbide/carbon nanotube loaded platinum particle composite material. The preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing two-dimensional titanium carbide by chemically peeling off an aluminum atomic layer in Ti3AlC2 by means of HF; and combining the two-dimensional titanium carbide with MWNTs by means of a solvothermal method, and meanwhile, loading the platinum nanoparticles to obtain the Ti3C2/MWNTs-Pt nano composite material. The preparation method provided by the invention is simple, controllable in process, good in repeatability and low in cost, and industrial production on a large scale is facilitated. The prepared Ti3C2/MWNTs-Pt nano composite material is large in specific surface area and good in electric conductivity, can be used as an anode catalyst of a direct methanol fuel cell, and shows excellent catalytic activity on methanol oxidation.

A membrane electrode assembly includes an electrolyte membrane, anode catalyst layers, and cathode catalyst layers provided counter to the anode catalyst layers, respectively. An insulating layer is provided on the electrolyte membrane between adjacent anode catalyst layers. An insulating layer is provided on the electrolyte membrane between adjacent cathode catalyst layers. The resistivity of the insulating layer is preferably identical to or higher than that of the electrolyte membrane.

The invention discloses a self-humidification membrane electrode for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps of 1, pre-treating a proton exchange membrane, 2, mixing a carbon-supported platinum or platinum-ruthenium catalyst, a perfluorinated sulfonic acid resin, a hydrophilic organic polymer and an inorganic oxide and in water or a low-boiling point solvent, carrying out ultrasonic treatment to obtain catalyst slurry, and carrying out spray-coating of the catalyst slurry on one side of the proton exchange membrane by an illumination direct-coating technology to obtain an anode catalyst layer, 3, carrying out spray-coating of slurry without the hydrophilic organic polymer and the inorganic oxide on the other side of the proton exchange membrane to obtain a cathode catalyst layer, and 4, carrying out lamination of a gas diffusion layer and the proton exchange membrane of which the two sides are coated with the catalyst layers to obtain the self-humidification membrane electrode. The anode catalyst layer contains the hydrophilic organic polymer and the inorganic oxide so that the self-humidification membrane electrode has excellent self-humidification performances at a high cell temperature and low humidity.

In order to prevent the crossover of an organic fuel such as methanol in a fuel cell and to exhibit excellent electricity generation characteristics without impairing the utilization efficiency of the fuel, at least either of (1) a discontinuous catalyst layer being formed on a surface of an anode catalyst layer and having a higher density (existence probability) of platinum type catalyst than the anode catalyst layer and (2) an electrolyte polymer layer is formed at the interface between the anode catalyst layer and a polymer electrolyte membrane.

An anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell is presented having first and second catalyst compositions and a hydrophobic binder. The first catalyst composition includes a noble metal, other than Ru, on a corrosion-resistant support material; the second catalyst composition contains a single-phase solid solution of a metal oxide containing Ru. The through-plane concentration of ionomer in the catalyst layer decreases as a function of distance from the membrane interface. Gas diffusion electrodes, catalyst-coated membranes, MEAs and fuel cells having the foregoing anode catalyst layer are also described.

The invention is directed to precious metal oxide catalysts, particularly to iridium oxide based catalysts for use as anode catalysts in PEM water electrolysis and other applications. The composite catalyst materials comprise iridium oxide (IrO₂) and optionally ruthenium oxide (RuO₂) in combination with an inorganic oxide (for example TiO₂, Al₂O₃, ZrO₂ and mixtures thereof). The inorganic oxide has a BET surface area in the range of 30 to 200 m²/g and is present in a quantity of 25 to 70 wt.-% based on the total weight of the catalyst. The catalyst materials are characterised by a good electrical conductivity >0.01 S/cm and high current density. The catalysts are used in electrodes, catalyst-coated membranes and membrane-electrode-assemblies for PEM electrolyzers, PEM fuel cells, regenerative fuel cells (RFC), sensors and other electrochemical devices.

This invention relates to a modified Al, Mg alloy fuel cell, the metal anode of the fuel cell is a modified AlMg alloy anode, the cathode is an air electrode composed of an anode catalyst electrode, a water-proof permeability film and conduction Cu silk screen plated with Ag, the anode catalyst electrode is a film made of a mixture of active carbon, MnO2, graphite and SiO, the water-proof permeability film is one made of the mixture of Teflon, emulsion agent, a changed material of ethane black and carbon, and the anode catalyst electrode, the water-proof permeability film and the Cu silk screen are suppressed and sintered to form the air electrodes, the electrolyte is a neutral one containing salt, said metal anode is set at the center of a sealed shell, the two air electrodes are set at both sides of the metal anode and the shell is charged with electrolyte.

The invention relates to a preparation method of the membrane electrode of a direct methanol fuel cell. The method comprises the following steps: an electrostatic spinning technology is adopted to construct a nano-fiber network structure thin membrane mixed by active carbon powder and Nafion resin; a precious metal nano-catalyst is deposited on the surface of the manufactured nano-fiber network structure thin membrane, so that a cathode catalyst layer thin membrane and an anode catalyst layer thin membrane are manufactured respectively; or the mixture of the precious metal nano-catalyst and the Nafion resin is taken as raw materials to directly construct the cathode catalyst layer thin membrane and the anode catalyst layer thin membrane through the electrostatic spinning technology; a cathode gas diffusion layer, the anode catalyst layer thin membrane, a Nafion membrane, the cathode catalyst layer thin membrane and a cathode gas diffusion layer are hot-pressed finally, so that the aggregation of the membrane electrode of the direct methanol fuel cell is manufactured; the membrane electrode with a nano-fiber three-dimensional network structure is constructed through the electrostatic spinning technology, so that the maximization of the three-phase reaction interface of the membrane electrode is achieved, and the improvement of electrocatalytic activity, mass-transfer efficiency and utilization efficiency of the catalyst is achieved.

The invention provides a single metal/multi-wall carbon nano tube type composite material, a preparation method and application thereof. According to the composite material, the single metal is uniformly loaded on the carbon nano tube, wherein the mass percentage of the carbon nano tube is 63 to 95 percent, the particle diameter of the single metal is 15 to 28 nanometers, and the diameter of the carbon nano tube is 10 to 30 nanometers. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: preparing a laminated plate containing LDH of Co, Cu and Mg activity or activity-aid species by using the micro adjustable characteristics of the composition and the structure of the LDH laminated plate, growing a carbon composite material by roasting and a chemical vapor deposition method, and meanwhile reducing mixed metal oxide into the single metal so as to obtain the single metal/multi-wall carbon nano tube type composite material. A noble platinum metal is loaded on the composite material to prepare an anode catalyst of a direct methanol fuel cell, the peak current density of the catalyst on methanol electro-catalysis oxidation is 21 to 36mA.cm<2>, and the specific activity can reach 235 to 451 mA/mg. The preparation method has the advantages of simple preparation flow, low cost, environment friendliness and the like, and is suitable for industrialized application.

The present invention relates to a fuel-cell system. This system includes an anode electrode; a cathode electrode; a separator positioned between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, wherein the separator is not an ion exchange membrane; an anode catalyst; and a cathode catalyst, wherein the cathode catalyst is a non-precious metal catalyst or metal-free catalyst. The present invention also relates to a method of generating energy from crude fuel. This method involves providing a fuel-cell system and contacting the fuel-cell system with a crude fuel under conditions effective to generate energy from the crude fuel.

The invention is directed to iridium oxide based catalysts for use as anode catalysts in PEM water electrolysis. The claimed composite catalyst materials comprise iridium oxide (IrO₂) and optionally ruthenium oxide (RuO₂) in combination with a high surface area inorganic oxide (for example TiO₂, Al₂O₃, ZrO₂ and mixtures thereof). The inorganic oxide has a BET surface area in the range of 50 to 400 m²/g, a water solubility of lower than 0.15 g/l and is present in a quantity of less than 20 wt. % based on the total weight of the catalyst. The claimed catalyst materials are characterised by a low oxygen overvoltage and long lifetime in water electrolysis. The catalysts are used in electrodes, catalyst-coated membranes and membrane-electrode-assemblies for PEM electrolyzers as well as in regenerative fuel cells (RFC), sensors, and other electrochemical devices.