H2 Fuels from Photocatalytic Splitting of Seawater Affected by Nano-TiO2 Promoted with CuO and NiO
Autor: | A.-J. Simamora, Fang-Chih Chang, H. Paul Wang, T.-C. Yang, Y.-L. Wei, W.-K. Lin |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Zdroj: | International Journal of Photoenergy, Vol 2013 (2013) |
Druh dokumentu: | article |
ISSN: | 1110-662X 1687-529X |
DOI: | 10.1155/2013/419182 |
Popis: | To enhance H2 yields from the photocatalytic splitting of seawater, better photocatalysts such as nanostructured TiO2 promoted with NiO (2.5%) and CuO (2.5%) have been studied in the present work. The accumulated H2 yielded from the photocatalytic splitting of seawater containing oxalic acid (50 mM) as the sacrificial reagents on CuO/nano-TiO2 is 8.53 μmol/gcat after the 5 h radiation. On the NiO/nano-TiO2 photocatalyst, the H2 yield is relatively low (i.e., 1.46 μmol/gcat). Note that the hole scavenging with chlorides in seawater may be associated with the less H2 yielded from the seawater photocatalysis (on CuO/nano-TiO2) if compared with that from water (42.4 μmol/gcat). |
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