CN102881906A - Modification method of carbon-based material, and application thereof in microbial fuel cell - Google Patents

Modification method of carbon-based material, and application thereof in microbial fuel cell Download PDF

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CN102881906A
CN102881906A CN2012103827411A CN201210382741A CN102881906A CN 102881906 A CN102881906 A CN 102881906A CN 2012103827411 A CN2012103827411 A CN 2012103827411A CN 201210382741 A CN201210382741 A CN 201210382741A CN 102881906 A CN102881906 A CN 102881906A
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The invention discloses a modification method of a carbon-based material, and an application thereof in a microbial fuel cell. The specific preparation method comprises the steps of performing surface modification on the carbon-based material by using strong reduction hydrazine hydrate; and changing the surface characteristic of the carbon-based material to obtain anodes of the microbial fuel cell. The obtained anodes of the microbial fuel cell are applied to the microbial fuel cell. Compared with an unmodified carbon-based electrode, the modification of the strong reduction hydrazine hydrate can enhance a specific surface area of an electrode material, is beneficial for microbial attachment, improves the peak current of the electrode material, simultaneously changes the surface groups of the electrode, enhances the biocompatibility of the electrode, and increases electron transfer efficiency, so that the electricity production power of the electrode can be greatly increased. Compared with other anode modification methods, the method of performing surface modification on the carbon-based material by using strong reduction hydrazine hydrate is simple and practicable, has low preparation cost, and is helpful for popularized applications in the microbial fuel cell.

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A kind of method of modifying of carbon-based material and the application in microbiological fuel cell thereof
Technical field
The invention belongs to new forms of energy and field of environment engineering technology, be specifically related to carbon-based anode material surface modification method and the application in microbiological fuel cell thereof.
Background technology
The problems such as the energy crisis that the use of non-renewable fossil fuel causes, environmental pollution are increasingly serious, seek the extensive concern that renewable green novel energy source more and more is subject to countries in the world.Microbiological fuel cell (MFC) technology can be converted into electric energy with the chemical energy in the organic substance under the catalytic action of microbe.It has can utilize that substrate is extensive, operating condition is simple, the collection pollutant processes and electric energy is recovered as the plurality of advantages such as one, is one of current field of environment engineering study hotspot.But it is still lower to study the power density that microbiological fuel cell so far obtains, and has limited further developing and using of it.
Anode is participated in the metabolic activity of microbe-catalytic oxidization fuel directly, affects electronics transmission efficiency between microbe and the electrode, and its surface nature affects electrogenesis microbial growth density, and then the MFC electrogenesis is measured Main Function.In view of anode material on the vital impact of MFC electricity generation performance, for further improving the MFC power stage, select suitable anode material, it is carried out the surface modified of physics or chemistry, study simultaneously its surface topography and functional group and change the impact that biological attachment, compatibility and electronics are transmitted, the electricity generation performance tool that improves MFC is of great significance.
Chemical modification method is a kind of cheapness and effective surface modifying method.For example, (the J.PowerSources such as Feng, 2010,195:1841-1844) use the acid soak method, heating means or the method that both combine are carried out surface modification to the carbon fiber brush, so that carbon fiber brush specific area increases, material surface N1s/C1s ratio obviously raises, the C-O constituent content descends, and infers that nitrogen-containing functional group is conducive to the anode electron transfer process, and the simultaneously decline of C-O content also impels the raising of microbiological fuel cell power density.Hydrazine hydrate is a kind of strong reductant, in industry, be widely used, cheap, non-secondary pollution, utilize the hydrazine hydrate modification to the carbon-based material surface chemical modification, study the improvement of its Surface Physical Chemistry environment, chemical property and the application in anode of microbial fuel cell and rarely have report.Because carbon-based material has the character such as conductivity, chemical stability, biocompatibility, therefore, can utilize through the carbon-based material of the strong reducing property hydrazine hydrate modification anode material as microbiological fuel cell.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to provide a kind of method of modifying of carbon-based material, its purpose is to improve microbiological fuel cell electrogenesis power, improve the possibility that microbiological fuel cell is used in practice, for the exploitation of electrode of microbial fuel cell provides a kind of new thinking.Main contents of the present invention are as follows:
A kind of method of modifying of carbon-based material, described method of modifying comprise take carbon-based material as matrix, utilize the hydrazine hydrate of strong reducing property that carbon-based material is carried out finishing, prepare a kind of anode material of modification; It is characterized in that said method comprising the steps of:
(1) carbon-based material is immersed in carries out preliminary treatment in the acetone soln, soak time is 12~24h, cleans up with deionized water after taking out, and is positioned over and carries out drying processing in 105 ℃ of baking ovens, obtains dried carbon-based material;
(2) carbon-based material that obtains in the step (1) is impregnated in 20%~50% hydrazine hydrate ethanolic solution, 50~90 ℃ of heating water bath 4~8h obtain the carbon-based material of water bath processing;
(3) carbon-based material that obtains in the step (2) is taken out, put into 105 ℃ of oven dry of baking oven, namely obtain described Surface Modified Electrodes material.
Described carbon-based material is carbon cloth, carbon paper, carbon cloth or carbon felt.
The application of anode modification material in microbiological fuel cell that the method for modifying of above-mentioned a kind of carbon-based material obtains, take the single chamber air cathode microbial fuel cell as research object, the anode take described anode material as microbiological fuel cell.
It is as follows that the present invention verifies that strong reducing property hydrazine hydrate modified carbon fiber cloth material is applied to the process of anode of microbial fuel cell:
One, the sign of carbon fiber cloth material
Respectively the carbon cloth anode material before and after modifying is carried out the SEM test, observe the change of material surface pattern; Respectively the carbon cloth anode material before and after modifying is carried out electro-chemical test (CV), contrast chemical property difference; Redox is carried out the XPS characterization test to the carbon cloth anode material before and after modifying respectively, and analyzes the variation of its surface-element and functional group.
Two, the assembling of microbiological fuel cell and startup
The anode material that utilizes the manner to obtain is assembled the method for microbiological fuel cell and is carried out according to the following steps: the anode place that the anode material after the modification is mounted to microbiological fuel cell, negative electrode is for carrying the platinum air cathode, negative electrode cover plate, anode cover plate and battery cavity are connected, and fix with bolt.Derive anode and cathode with the titanium silk, data acquisition unit is connected to the external resistance two ends, and output voltage is recorded in the computer automatically.Namely finish the assembling of microbiological fuel cell.
In the start-up course, nutrient solution mixes according to a certain percentage with glucose, anaerobic sludge, phosphate buffer, slaine and vitamin and is added in the single-chamber microbial fuel cell, change matrix every day, until continuous two periodic battery maximum output voltages are basically identical.
Three, the electricity generation performance of microbiological fuel cell test
After microbiological fuel cell starts successfully, move continuously a plurality of cycles, monitoring output voltage and the relation of time, the electrogenesis of investigating the modified anode material is stable; Change the external resistance size when the microbiological fuel cell electricity generation ability is best, the variation of record output voltage obtains polarization curve and the power density curve of microbiological fuel cell; Measure the variation of cycle of operation Inlet and outlet water COD, calculate again the coulombic efficiency of microbiological fuel cell according to the electrogenesis amount.
The carbon fiber cloth material that the inventive method is modified, its specific area increases, the surface nitrogen-containing functional group increases, be beneficial to adhering to and the migration of electronics between microbe and electrode of electrogenesis microbe, it can be improved the electricity generation performance of microbiological fuel cell greatly as the anode of microbiological fuel cell.This inventive method is simple, and is workable, successful.The selected materials good biocompatibility has no adverse effects to the electrogenesis microbe.The electrode material that obtains can be widely used in the microbiological fuel cell field.
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Fig. 1 is that the SEM figure of the carbon fiber cloth electrode before and after modifying compares;
Fig. 2 is that the XPS element of the carbon fiber cloth electrode before and after modifying forms;
Fig. 3 is that the CV figure of the carbon fiber cloth electrode before and after modifying compares;
Fig. 4 is the electricity generation performance contrast of carbon fiber cloth electrode in MFC before and after modifying;
CM represents the carbon fiber cloth electrode of unmodified among the figure, and CM-30% represents the carbon fiber cloth electrode that hydrazine hydrate is modified.
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Further describe the present invention below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, its purpose is to understand better content of the present invention, rather than limits the scope of the invention.
Embodiment 1
The first step: preparation and the sign of hydrazine hydrate modifying carbon fibers cloth material
The method of modifying of anode of microbial fuel cell material among the present invention, realize by following steps: (1) is immersed in carbon-based material and carries out preliminary treatment in the acetone soln, soak time is 12h, taking-up cleans up with deionized water, be positioned over and carry out the drying processing in 105 ℃ of baking ovens, obtain dried carbon-based material; (2) carbon-based material that obtains in the step (1) is impregnated in the 30% hydrazine hydrate ethanolic solution, 60 ℃ of heating water bath 6h obtain the carbon-based material of water bath processing; (3) carbon-based material that obtains in the step (2) is taken out, put into 105 ℃ of oven dry of baking oven, namely obtain described Surface Modified Electrodes material.
The SEM figure of the modifying carbon fibers cloth electrode material that this method obtains as can be seen from the figure modifies rear carbon fiber cloth material and compares with unmodified carbon fiber cloth material as shown in Figure 1, its surperficial gully showed increased, and the material specific area increases.Before and after modifying electrode material XPS characterization data as shown in Figure 2, carbon fiber cloth material nitrogen content showed increased after modifying, protonated nitrogen and the tertiary amine of surface functional group when unmodified changes quaternary nitrogen and pyrazoline group into, carbon oxygen singly-bound content reduces simultaneously.These all are beneficial to attached growth of microorganisms and electronics transmission.Test in (seeing Fig. 3) at CV through the carbon fiber cloth electrode of modifying, its peak current illustrates that obviously greater than not modified electrode the chemical property of the carbon fiber cloth electrode that process is modified is enhanced.
Second step: the assembling of microbiological fuel cell and startup
Anode of microbial fuel cell and air cathode are mounted to respectively the two ends of battery cavity, negative electrode cover plate, anode cover plate and battery cavity are connected, and fix with bolt.Derive anode and cathode with the titanium silk, and in external circuit, connect 1000O resistance.Data acquisition unit is connected to the resistance two ends, and output voltage is recorded in the computer automatically.The anode seed sludge pick up from certain sludge of sewage treatment plant concentrated between.
In the start-up course, the matrix that anolyte adopts is the 50mM phosphate buffer of glucose, adds 1.00g glucose, 12.5mL slaine, 5mL vitamin in the 1L buffer solution.Anolyte and anaerobic sludge are according to 3~4: 1 volume ratio is added in the reactor, changes water inlet every day until start successfully.
The 3rd step: electricity generation performance of microbial fuel cell test
The electrode material that obtains before and after modifying contrasts as shown in Figure 4 as the electricity generation performance that anode is applied to obtain in the microbiological fuel cell.As can be seen from Figure 4, the electrogenesis cycle that makes microbiological fuel cell through the anode material behind the hydrazine hydrate modification, the 17h when using the unmodified anode extended to 24h, and maximum output voltage has improved 26mV.Obtain by the polarization curve of measuring MFC, the maximum power density of unmodified anode microbiological fuel cell is 662mW/m 2, be 865mW/m and adopt the maximum power density of the microbiological fuel cell of modified anode 2, improved 30.7%; The hydrazine hydrate modified anode makes the MFC internal resistance be reduced to 176O by 231O.Adopting the coulombic efficiency of the microbiological fuel cell of modified anode is 13.3%, has improved 24.3% than unmodified anode microbiological fuel cell (10.7%).This shows, compare with unmodified anode microbiological fuel cell, the modified anode that this method obtains is applied to improve in the microbiological fuel cell the whole electricity generation performance of battery.

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1. the surface modification method of a carbon-based material is characterized in that said method comprising the steps of:
(1) carbon-based material is immersed in carries out preliminary treatment in the acetone soln, soak time is 12~24h, takes out to clean up with deionized water, is positioned over to carry out drying processing in 105 ℃ of baking ovens, obtains dried carbon-based material;
(2) carbon-based material that obtains in the step (1) is impregnated in 20%~50% hydrazine hydrate ethanolic solution, 50~90 ℃ of heating water bath 4~8h obtain the carbon-based material of water bath processing;
(3) carbon-based material that obtains in the step (2) is taken out, put into 105 ℃ of oven dry of baking oven, namely obtain described Surface Modified Electrodes material.
2. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that described carbon-based material is carbon cloth, carbon paper, carbon cloth, carbon felt or reticulated vitreous carbon.
3. the application of Surface Modified Electrodes material in microbiological fuel cell that obtain of method according to claim 1 is characterized in that the anode take described electrode material as microbiological fuel cell.
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