Electrolytic tank device for preparing sodium borohydride by direct current electrolytic method
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the field of hydrogen storage material manufacturing, in particular to an electrolytic cell device for preparing sodium borohydride by a direct current electrolytic method.
Background
Sodium borohydride is an excellent hydrogen storage material, the hydrogen storage density of the sodium borohydride can reach 10.8 wt%, the regenerated product is pollution-free, the hydrogen release purity is high, and the sodium borohydride is an ideal hydrogen source for fuel cells, and the sodium borohydride is a promising candidate hydrogen storage material in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) and Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell (DBFC) systems, but the sodium borohydride is expensive, the hydrogen production cost is too high, the regeneration is difficult, and the development of the sodium borohydride is restricted by the problems of the need of a noble metal catalyst and the like.
The prior preparation method of sodium borohydride comprises an industrial synthesis method, a direct reduction method and the like. Compared with other methods, the electrochemical reduction method for preparing the sodium borohydride can realize the on-line preparation of the sodium borohydride and the recycling of hydrogen production stored by the sodium borohydride, and has the advantages of low raw material cost, low energy consumption and simple operation. U.S. Pat. No. 3,3734842 discloses a process for synthesizing borohydride by electrolysis, which does not need to add a reducing agent, reduces the production cost, but has low electrolysis efficiency and no recycling. Chinese patent CN1239748C discloses a method for recycling sodium borohydride fuel cell, which decomposes borohydride to generate metaborate, a byproduct of hydrogen, by using electrolysis, and regenerates borohydride, but the reaction rate of the process is slow, and titanium alloy is used as anode material, which is expensive. Shuchenhua patent publication No. CN110457461A discloses a NaBH-based catalyst4The fuel oil extraction-reduction desulfurizing method of electrochemical regeneration combines sodium borohydride reduction and reduction desulfurization, sodium metaborate and ionic liquid are added into a working electrode electrolytic cell, the ionic liquid is added into a counter electrode electrolytic cell, and the sodium borohydride is obtained by electrolysis by applying pulse voltage.
The utility model adopts an electrochemical method to prepare sodium borohydride, but BO is adopted in the preparation process2 -The negative ions will move towards the anode, causing BO near the cathode2 -Decrease in ion concentration, resulting in BO2 -Reduction of ions to BH4 -The ions are very difficult, although reduction to BH still occurs at the cathode4 -Ion, BH4 -The ions will also move from the anode surfaceAnd the oxidation reaction occurs and is consumed, thereby reducing the electrolytic reduction efficiency. The BO can be effectively blocked by installing an ion exchange membrane between the cathode and the anode2 -And BH4 -Ion migration to the anode to promote BO2 -Reduction to BH4 -. Therefore, during the electrolysis process, the cathode chamber and the anode chamber need to be isolated by a Nafion membrane.
NaBH from currently used single-membrane two-compartment cell devices4Low concentration, low conversion rate, large electricity demand and is still not suitable for preparing NaBH4The industrial requirements of (1).
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
Aiming at the problem that the prior electrolytic cell device can not efficiently improve NaBH4The utility model provides an electrolytic cell device with a two-membrane three-chamber structure for preparing sodium borohydride by a direct current electrolytic method.
Realize above-mentioned technical purpose, reach above-mentioned technological effect, the utility model discloses a following technical scheme realizes:
an electrolytic cell device for preparing sodium borohydride by a direct current electrolytic method comprises a cathode chamber and anode chambers symmetrically arranged on two sides of the cathode chamber;
the cathode chamber is communicated with the anode chambers at two sides through a connecting pipe;
or the cathode chamber and the anode chamber are connected through a branch pipe integrally connected at the side surface;
the device also comprises a cation exchange membrane arranged on the cross section of the joint of the cathode chamber and the anode chamber.
As a further improvement of the utility model, the main body chambers of the anode chambers on both sides have the same size and are arranged in mirror images of the connected branch pipes.
As a further improvement of the utility model, the bilateral symmetry of the cathode chamber is provided with a group of branch pipes.
As a further improvement of the utility model, the cation exchange membrane is arranged at the position of the junction surface of the branch pipe.
As a further improvement of the utility model, a sealing ring is arranged at the position corresponding to the position of the cation exchange membrane.
As a further improvement of the utility model, two sides the anode in the anode chamber is connected with the same cathode in the cathode chamber, and the direct current power supply with the same load is loaded between the anode and the cathode.
As a further improvement of the utility model, the device also comprises an electrochemical workstation connected with the direct current power supply.
The utility model has the advantages that: the utility model discloses the structure of two membrane three room electrolysis baths that adopts can form the electric field of balanced distribution in the negative pole left and right sides to reduce the electric field to the influence of metaborate ion electromigration, improve the electro-catalytic reduction probability of metaborate ion and negative pole, improve electrolysis efficiency.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the distribution of the structure of the electrolytic cell of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the operation principle of the electrolytic cell of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of a first embodiment of the electrolytic cell of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a second embodiment of the electrolytic cell of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a cyclic voltammogram of the two-membrane three-compartment cell of example 1 at 4v for various times of electrolysis;
FIG. 6 is a cyclic voltammogram of a single-membrane two-compartment cell in comparative example 1 at an electrolysis voltage of 4v for various times of electrolysis;
FIG. 7 is a graph comparing the peak current densities of two-membrane three-chamber cells and a single-membrane two-chamber cell during electrolysis for different periods of time;
FIG. 8 is a cyclic voltammogram at different electrolysis voltages for a two-membrane three-chamber electrolyzer having an electrolysis time of 30min in example 2;
FIG. 9 is a cyclic voltammogram of a single-membrane two-compartment cell of comparative example 2 at different electrolysis voltages for an electrolysis time of 30 min;
FIG. 10 is a comparison of peak current densities for different voltages for two-membrane three-chamber cells and for single-membrane two-chamber cells;
wherein: 1-cathode chamber, 2-anode chamber, 100, 200-branch pipe, 3-cation exchange membrane, 4-cathode, 5-anode, 6-direct current power supply, 7-connecting pipe and 8-sealing ring.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is further described in detail with reference to the following embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the invention.
The following description is made in detail for the application of the principles of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The structure schematic diagram of the two-membrane three-chamber electrolyzer shown in fig. 1-3 of the present invention comprises a cathode chamber 1 and anode chambers 2 symmetrically disposed at both sides of the cathode chamber 1, wherein the cathode chamber 1 and the anode chambers 2 are connected in the following two ways.
The first connection mode is as follows: the cathode chamber 1 is communicated with the anode chambers 2 at two sides through a connecting pipe.
And a second connection mode: the cathode chamber 1 and the anode chamber 2 are connected by branch pipes 100 and 200 integrally connected at the side surfaces.
In addition, the device also comprises a cation exchange membrane 3 arranged on the cross section of the joint of the cathode chamber 1 and the anode chamber 2. Thereby forming the structure of the two-membrane three-chamber electrolytic cell.
In addition, for the second connection mode cathode chamber 1, the anode chamber 2 is structured as follows: the body chambers of the anode chambers 2 located at both sides have the same size, and the branch pipes 200 connected thereto are arranged in a mirror image. A set of branch pipes 100 are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the cathode chamber 1. The cation exchange membrane 3 is provided at the position of the junction surface of the branch pipes. And a sealing ring 8 is arranged at the position corresponding to the position where the cation exchange membrane 3 is arranged.
Based on the container device, the connected electrode device has the specific structure that an anode 5 in the anode chamber 2 is connected with the same cathode 4 in the cathode chamber 1, and a direct current power supply 6 with the same load is loaded between the anode 5 and the cathode 4. Two electrolytic cells are produced in series, which are connected in parallel and share the same cathode chamber 1. The electrode is fixed inside the electrolytic cell device through the electrode fixing hole position of the cathode chamber 1 or the anode chamber 2. As can be seen from fig. 2, the left and right sides of the electrodes in the cathode chamber 1 form the electric fields with uniform distribution, so that the influence of the electric fields on the electromigration of the metaborate ions and the periphery of the metaborate ion aggregation exchange membrane are reduced, the probability of electrolytic catalytic reduction of the metaborate ions and the cathode is improved, the working voltage can be effectively reduced, and the electrolytic efficiency is improved.
As shown in fig. 3, a specific embodiment of the present invention is made of organic glass, and is composed of a left 50ml anode chamber, a right 50ml anode chamber and a middle 50ml cathode chamber 1, each chamber is connected by a connecting pipe 7, and a cation exchange membrane 3 is arranged in parallel with the cross section of the connecting pipe 7; the anode chamber is provided with a cover plate for fixing an anode and a counter electrode, and the cathode chamber 1 is provided with a cover plate for fixing a cathode.
The following is the embodiment of the utility model completed by testing:
in the embodiments, a three-electrode system is adopted, a gold electrode is used as a working electrode, a graphite electrode is used as a counter electrode, a mercury-mercury oxide electrode is used as a reference electrode, left-right symmetry is ensured, and then the three-electrode system is connected with an electrochemical workstation. The electrochemical workstation used in the present invention is a CHI660B electrochemical workstation manufactured by shanghai chenhua instruments.
The specific tests are as follows:
the first embodiment is as follows:
50ml of lmol/L NaOH solution is added into two anode chambers of the electrolytic cell, and 50ml of lmol/L NaOH solution and 0.5mol/L sodium metaborate mixed solution are added into a cathode chamber 1.
Carrying out direct current electrolysis at normal temperature and normal pressure, wherein the electrolysis voltage is 4v, and testing the sodium borohydride concentration of the solution after 30, 90, 120, 150, 180, 210, 240, 270 and 300min of electrolysis under the voltage respectively; the test is carried out by adopting cyclic voltammetry, the test voltage range is-1 v, the scanning speed is 0.05v/s, and as can be seen from the peak current of figure 5, the peak current is the maximum at the time of electrolysis for 270min and is 14.46 multiplied by 10-4A·cm-2At this time, the concentration of sodium borohydride was the highest.
Comparative example one:
for comparison with the present invention, a single membrane two-compartment cell was used to compare the same raw materials and procedures as in example 1. The single-membrane two-chamber electrolytic cell is divided into an anode chamber and a cathode chamber, NaOH solution is added into the anode chamber, mixed solution of NaOH and sodium metaborate is added into the cathode chamber, and direct current electrolysis is carried out at normal temperature and normal pressure. FIG. 6 is a CV diagram of the electrolyzed water in a single-membrane two-chamber electrolyzer, showing that the peak current density at 300min of electrolysis time is 7.136X 10-4A·cm-2At this time, the concentration of sodium borohydride was the highest.
FIG. 7 is a comparison graph of peak current densities at different times after electrolysis in the two-membrane three-chamber electrolyzer and the single-membrane two-chamber electrolyzer, and it can be seen that the electrolysis effect of the three chambers is better than that of the two chambers.
Example two:
the electrolyte concentration was the same as in example one.
Carrying out direct current electrolysis at normal temperature and normal pressure, wherein the electrolysis voltage is 1.5v and 4v respectively, and testing the concentration of sodium borohydride in the solution after 30min of electrolysis at each voltage; the test method is to use a gold electrode as a cathode to perform cyclic voltammetry test, the test voltage range is-1 v, the scanning speed is 0.05v/s, and as can be seen from the peak current in FIG. 8, the peak current is the largest when the electrolytic voltage is 1.5v, and is 7.521 multiplied by 10-4A·cm-2At this time, the concentration of sodium borohydride was the highest.
Comparative example two:
a single membrane two-compartment cell was used to compare the same raw materials and procedures as in example 1. As can be seen from FIG. 9, the electrolysis effect was the best when the electrolysis voltage was 1.5v, and the peak current density was 3.398X 10-4A·cm-2At this time, the concentration of sodium borohydride was the highest.
Fig. 10 is a comparison graph of peak current densities at different voltages after electrolysis in the two-membrane three-chamber electrolyzer and the single-membrane two-chamber electrolyzer, which shows that the three-chamber electrolyzer has better electrolysis effect than the two-chamber electrolyzer, and in general, the three-chamber electrolyzer has better effect in reduction of sodium borohydride than the traditional two-chamber electrolyzer.
The basic principles and the main features of the invention and the advantages of the invention have been shown and described above. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and that the foregoing embodiments and descriptions are provided only to illustrate the principles of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.