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ENCIT 2020
18th Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering
EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF ELECTROLYTES PERFORMANCE INTO AN ALKALINE FUEL CELL (AFC)
Submission Author:
Erick Daniel Rincón Castrillo , MG , Brazil
Co-Authors:
Erick Daniel Rincón Castrillo, Jose Ricardo Bermudez Santaella, Elena Peñaranda, Frank Wiliam Adolfo Blanco Ojeda, ENIO PEDONE BANDARRA FILHO
Presenter: Erick Daniel Rincón Castrillo
doi://10.26678/ABCM.ENCIT2020.CIT20-0414
Abstract
Alkaline fuel cells (AFC) have impacted positively the automotive industry, by enrich gasoline and diesel engines with derivatives of electrolysis (H2, O2, and HHO) and consequently decreasing in combustion gases (CO, and CO2). This paper presents the experimental validation of an electrolytic cell that produces oxyhydrogen gas, using two electrolytes (potassium hydroxide and sodium bicarbonate) with the objective of determining which is the most favorable in the operation of the device. The experimental results shown that the best electrolyte for the alkaline cells is the potassium hydroxide because it produces a flow rate of 0.39 ml / s with 6 g, sodium bicarbonate generates 0.29 ml / s with 20 g.
Keywords
Fuel Cell, potassium hydroxide, sodium bicarbonate, Electrolysis
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