开发直接肼过氧化氢燃料电池----英文资料翻译.doc

A development of direct hydrazine/hydrogen peroxide fuel cell Introduction Direct liquid-feed fuel cells are considered to be suitable power sources for mobile appliances due to their high energy densities and easy handling in fuel supplying. Hydrazine (N2H4)is a powerful fuel for fuel cells due to its high hydrogen content (12.5 wt.%) and rather negative eletrooxidation potential (?1.21V vs. SHE). The electromotive force (EMF) of the direct hydrazine fuel cell (DHFC) is as high as 1.61 V, which is much higher than that of the direct methanol fuel cell (1.21 V), so that the DHFC is considered to be a potential mobile power source . Yamada et al. suggested a DHFC configuration using Nafion membrane as the electrolyte. It was found that this DHFC configuration was suffered from N2H5+ crossover when using aqueous N2H4 solutions as the fuel because Nafion membrane could not stop migration of N2H5+ ions from anolyte to the cathode . In our previous work , it was found that increase of OH. concentration in the anolyte could effectively suppress the crossover of N2H5+. A power density as high as 617mWcm.2 has been reported when alkaline N2H4 solution is used as the fuel . However, the slow kinetics of oxygen reduction reaction is considered to be a critical problem to improve the DHFC performance. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a powerful oxidizer.H2O2 has high electrochemical reactivity. Choudhury et al. suggested a fuel cell configuration using hydrogen peroxide as the oxidizer and alkaline borohydride solution as the fuel. Miley et al. [5] experimentally proved that the direct utilization of H2O2 as the oxidizer for fuel cell could improve the cell performance. A power density of 1.5Wcm.2 was achieved at 65 ℃ when using alkaline borohydride solutions as the fuel and H2O2 as the oxidizer . It is considered that borate crystallization is a troublesome problem when using alkaline borohydride solutions as the fuel. When N2H4 is employed as the fuel to power a DHFC, no such kin