Influence of Slurry I/C Ratio on Oxygen Transfer Resistance of PEMFC Alloy Catalyst
XIE Yuqiu1,2, GUO Wei1,2,*
1 State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing,Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China 2 Foshan Xianhu Laboratory, Foshan 528200, Guangdong, China
Abstract: Oxygen transport resistance has an important effect on fuel cell performance, and the magnitude of this resistance is also closely related to the I/C ratio of the slurry formulation and the catalyst type. In this work, the limiting current method was used to analyze the variation pattern of oxygen transport resistance of fuel cells by studying the effect of different I/C ratios on the performance of different types of low loading alloy catalysts. The test results show that although the electrocatalytic activity of alloy catalysts is higher than that of pure Pt catalysts (PtCo/C > PtRu/C > Pt/C), the I/C ratio variation has a more critical effect on the cell performance: PtRu/C catalysts have the lowest limit current density and the oxygen transport capacity is most severely affected by the I/C ratio, followed by PtCo/C, and Pt/C catalysts have the least affected. Correspondingly, the cell performance of the three catalysts is Pt/C≈PtCo/C>PtRu/C in order.
1 Jia Q H, Guo C C, Wang R J, et al. Journal of Chongqing University of Technology(Natural Science), 2023,37(8),300(in Chinese). 贾秋红,郭超超,汪如君,等.重庆理工大学学报(自然科学),2023,37(8),300. 2 Wang C, Wang S, Zhang J, et al. Progress in Chemistry, 2015, 27(2-3), 310. 3 Wei C Q, Zhang J S, Wan Q B, et al. Journal of Chongqing University of Technology(Natural Science), 2023,37(6),325(in Chinese). 卫超强,张君善,宛泉伯,等.重庆理工大学学报(自然科学),2023,37(6),325. 4 Fofana D, Natarajan S K, Hamelin J, et al. Energy, 2014, 64, 398. 5 Qi Z G, Kaufman A. Journal of Power Sources, 2003, 113(1), 37. 6 Passalacqua E, Lufrano F, Squadrito G, et al. Electrochimica Acta, 2001, 46(6), 799. 7 Makharia R, Subramanian N, Kumaraguru S,et al. Hydrogen-Air Performance and Degradation of Carbon-Supported Pt-alloy Catalyst Measured at High Current Density in Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells. Fuel Cell Seminar and Exhibition,2008. 8 Nonoyama N, Okazaki S, Weber A Z, et al. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2011, 4(51), 416. 9 Owejan J P, Owejan J E, Gu W. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2013, 160(8), F824. 10 Khandavalli S, Park J H, Kariuki N N, et al. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10(50), 43610. 11 Morgan R D, Haan J L, Masel R I. Journal of Power Sources, 2010, 195(19), 6405. 12 Uemura S, Yoshida T, Koga M. et al. Journal of the Electrochemical So-ciety, 2019, 166(2), F89. 13 Takahashi S, Shimanuki J, Mashio T, et al. Electrochimica Acta, 2017, 224, 178. 14 Berlinger S, A, McCloskey, B D, Weber A Z. In: Understanding Binary Interactions in Fuel-Cell Catalyst-Layer Inks, Symposium on Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFC) Held During the 232nd Meeting of the Electrochemical-Society.National Harbor, MD, 2017, pp. 309. 15 Beuscher U. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2006, 153(9), A1788. 16 Kongkanand A, Mathias M F. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2016, 7(7), 1127. 17 Hong K, Zhu K, Liu S C, et al. Materials Reports, 2022, 36(20), 124(in Chinese). 洪亢, 朱凯, 刘声楚, 等. 材料导报, 2022, 36(20), 124.