Direct electrosynthesis of pure aqueous H2O2 solutions up to 20% by weight using a solid electrolyte
By Chuan Xia, Yang Xia, Peng Zhu, Lei Fan, Haotian Wang. Science, 2019
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A direct route to pure peroxide Despite the widespread use of hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant and disinfectant, its commercial synthesis still requires inefficient concentration and purification steps. Xia et al. now report an electrochemical approach to synthesizing pure peroxide solutions straight from hydrogen and oxygen. Using a solid-state electrolyte, they avoid contamination of the product solution by extraneous ions. Varying the flow rate of water through the electrochemical cell tunes the final concentration over a range from 0.3% to 20% by weight. Science, this issue p. 226 A solid electrolyte enables hydrogen peroxide synthesis straight from hydrogen and oxygen, with no purification required. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) synthesis generally requires substantial postreaction purification. Here, we report a direct electrosynthesis strategy that delivers separate hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) streams to an anode and cathode separated by a porous solid electrolyte, wherein the electrochemically generated H+ and HO2– recombine to form pure aqueous H2O2 solutions. By optimizing a functionalized carbon black catalyst for two-electron oxygen reduction, we achieved >90% selectivity for pure H2O2 at current densities up to 200 milliamperes per square centimeter, which represents an H2O2 productivity of 3.4 millimoles per square centimeter per hour (3660 moles per kilogram of catalyst per hour). A wide range of concentrations of pure H2O2 solutions up to 20 weight % could be obtained by tuning the water flow rate through the solid electrolyte, and the catalyst retained activity and selectivity for 100 hours.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Insights into Practical-Scale Electrochemical H2O2 Synthesis (2020, background): “To date, numerous catalysts, including noble metals [37,38,41,42], transitionmetals [43], metal alloys [22], carbonatematerials [17,19,30,44,45], and their corresponding composites [41,46–49], have been developed for producing H2O2 through the 2e –”