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Schneider, Jonathan ; Bulczak, Eduard ; El-Nagar, Gumaa A. ; Gebhard, Marcus ; Kubella, Paul ; Schnucklake, Maike ; Fetyan, Abdulmonem ; Derr, Igor ; Roth, Christina:
Degradation Phenomena of Bismuth-Modified Felt Electrodes in VRFB Studied by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy.
In: Batteries.
Vol. 5
(2019)
Issue 1
.
- 16.
ISSN 2313-0105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries5010016
Abstract in another language
The performance of all-V redox flow batteries (VRFB) will decrease when they are exposed to dynamic electrochemical cycling, but also when they are in prolonged contact with the acidic electrolyte. These phenomena are especially severe at the negative side, where the parasitic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) will be increasingly favored over the reduction of V(III) with ongoing degradation of the carbon felt electrode. Bismuth, either added to the electrolyte or deposited onto the felt, has been reported to suppress the HER and therefore to enhance the kinetics of the V(II)/V(III) redox reaction. This study is the first to investigate degradation effects on bismuth-modified electrodes in the negative half-cell of a VRFB. By means of a simple impregnation method, a commercially available carbon felt was decorated with Bi 2 O 3 , which is supposedly present as Bi(0) under the working conditions at the negative side. Modified and unmodified felts were characterized electrochemically using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in a three-electrode setup. Surface morphology of the electrodes and composition of the negative half-cell electrolyte were probed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (TXRF), respectively. This was done before and after the electrodes were subjected to 50 charge-discharge cycles in a battery test bench. Our results suggest that not only the bismuth catalyst is dissolved from the electrode during battery operation, but also that the presence of bismuth in the system has a strong accelerating effect on electrode degradation.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | vanadium; redox flow battery; degradation; bismuth; electrochemical impedance spectroscopy |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science > Chair Electrochemical Process Engineering > Chair Electrochemical Process Engineering - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christina Roth Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science > Chair Electrochemical Process Engineering |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 500 Science > 540 Chemistry 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2021 10:12 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2023 13:28 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/64963 |