Articles
Storage energy capacity evaluation of activated carbon xerogels from lignin
Published 2018-05-05
Keywords
- Lignin,
- Activated Carbon Xerogels,
- Electrochemical Properties,
- Phosphoric Acid.
How to Cite
Diossa, G., Castro, C. D., Zapata-Benabithe, Z., & Quintana, G. (2018). Storage energy capacity evaluation of activated carbon xerogels from lignin. Revista ION, 30(2), 17–30. https://doi.org/10.18273/revion.v30n2-2017002
Abstract
In this work two types of organic xerogels were prepared from sol-gel solutions using resorcinol (R), formaldehyde (F), lignin (L) and NaOH (C) as catalyst. The mass ratio L/(R+L) was set at 0.27 and the amount of catalyst was varied on two mass ratios (R+L)/C, 90.3 (G series) and 72.1 (D series). Organic xerogels are chemically activated with phosphoric acid with a mass ratio of acid to xerogel 0.85/1, 1h of impregnation and 2h of activation and activation temperature is fixed at 450°C. Activated carbon xerogels are electrochemically evaluated as electrodes for supercapacitors using different techniques such as cyclic voltammetry (CV), chronopotentiometry (CP) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in a configuration of two and three electrodes. The value of the gravimetric capacity from cyclic voltammetry curves at 0.5mV/s (0 – 0.75V) for samples GA27 and DA27 were 222 and 226F/g, respectively. The DA27 sample showed more retention of energy than GA27, which is attributable to an increase in the presence.
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[58] Puziy AM, Poddubnaya OI, Ziatdinov AM. On the chemical structure of phosphorus compounds in phosphoric acidactivated carbon. Appl. Surf. Sci. 2006;252(23):8036–8.
[59] Liu Y, Li K, Liu Y, Pu L, Chen Z, Deng S. The high-performance and mechanism of P-doped activated carbon as a catalyst for aircathode microbial fuel cells. J. Mater. Chem. A. 2015;3(42):21149–58.
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[62] Mahata N, Pereira M, Suárez F, Martínez A, Tascón J, Figueiredo J. Tuning of texture and surface chemistry of carbon xerogels. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2008;324(1–2):150–5.
[63] Su F, Poh CK, Chen JS, Xu G, Wang D, Li Q, et al. Nitrogen-containing microporous carbon nanospheres with improved capacitive properties. Energy Environ. Sci. 2011;4(3):717–24.
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