Evaluating Pt-Ru/C mixtures as ethanol electro-oxidation catalysers
Bibian Alonso Hoyos, Javier González, Carlos Sánchez
Abstract
This work studies ethanol electro-catalytic oxidation by cyclic voltametry in sulphuric acid solutions at different temperatures and concetrations, using platinum.rutenium mixtures supported in vitreous carbon as catalysers. The results indicate that ethanol oxidation in theses electrodes is irreversible, has slow kinetics, is controlled by charge transfer and is brought about by a bi-functional reaction mechanism, this being ethanol adsorption on platinum atoms and additional oxidation of specties adsorbed in the presence of platinum and retenium oxides. Experimental results show increased catalytic activity with electrodes, followed by reduced activity for electrodes having a greater quantity of rutenium.
Keywords
ethanol oxidation; electro-catalysis; platinum.rutenium anodes
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