Reformate gas composition and pressure effect on CO tolerant Pt/Ti0.8Mo0.2O2–C electrocatalyst for PEM fuel cells

M. Suha Yazici; Sümeyye Dursun; Irina Borbáth; András Tompos

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.08.226

Reformate gas composition and pressure effect on CO tolerant Pt/Ti_0.8Mo_0.2O₂–C electrocatalyst for PEM fuel cells

M. Suha Yazici^*, Sümeyye Dursun, Irina Borbáth, András Tompos

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Abstract

Mixed-oxide coated Ti_0.8Mo_0.2O₂–C composite supported 20 wt% Pt electrocatalysts with Ti_0.8Mo_0.2O₂/C=75/25 mass ratio were developed for CO tolerance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) anode. Studies of the structure, composition and stability, as well as the results of CO_ads stripping confirmed that the mixed oxide composite support and the electrocatalyst prepared for this study show the well-documented characteristics of the Pt/Ti_1-xMo_xO₂-C systems with enhanced CO tolerance compared to the Pt/C catalyst. Dilution of hydrogen with CO₂ and CH₄ had negligible negative impact on the fuel cell performance. Switching gas composition between hydrogen and reformate shows recovery of potential after CO poisoning. Nevertheless, anode catalyst loading of 0.25 and 0.5 mgPt/cm² was not enough to give reasonable performance when CO impurity was present. Loading of 0.85 mgPt/cm² Ti_0.8Mo_0.2O₂–C supported catalyst was effective to give 1000 mA/cm² current density at 0.6 V under 25 ppm CO and 30 psig. Higher loading was needed at mass transfer limited region to overcome poisoning. However, loadings higher than 0.85 mgPt/cm² caused mass transfer limitations. Hence higher loadings is proposed with 40 wt% Pt/Ti_0.8Mo_0.2O₂–C support catalyst.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	13524-13533
Number of pages	10
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	46
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.08.226
Publication status	Published - 9 Apr 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Funding

Financial support provided by the TUBITAK ARDEB of Turkey under contract # 217M926 is greatly acknowledged. Project No. NNE130004 has been implemented with the support provided from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary , financed under the TR–NN–17 funding scheme. The research within project No. VEKOP-2.3.2-16-2017-00013 was supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary , co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The authors thank Dr. Gábor P. Szijjártó for the catalyst preparation and electrochemical characterization and Ms. Ildikó Turi for the technical assistance. The authors thank Dr. Á. Vass for the interest and helpful discussion of this work.

Funders	Funder number
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary	VEKOP-2.3.2-16-2017-00013
TUBITAK ARDEB	217M926, NNE130004
European Commission
European Regional Development Fund

Keywords

CO tolerance
Composite materials
Fuel cell
Pt electrocatalyst
Reformate

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