System for electrochemical of carbon dioxide
AssigneeSogang University Research & Business Development Foundation
InventorsWoonsup Shin, Soojin Jeong, Mi Jung Park
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a system for electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide, including: a reduction electrode unit to which carbon dioxide is supplied and including a metal-containing electrode; an oxidation electrode unit including a sacrificial electrode; and an electrolyte unit including an aprotic polar organic solvent and an auxiliary electrolyte, which is in contact with the reduction electrode unit and the oxidation electrode unit, and the carbon dioxide supplied to the reduction electrode unit is electrochemically reduced so as to produce an oxalate salt.
Claims6
A system for electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide, comprising:
- a reduction electrode unit to which carbon dioxide is supplied and including a metal-containing electrode;
- an oxidation electrode unit including a sacrificial electrode;
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- an electrolyte unit including dimethyl sulfoxide as an aprotic polar organic solvent and tetrabutylammonium hexafluorophosphate (TBA ·PF6) as an auxiliary electrolyte, wherein the aprotic polar organic solvent and the auxiliary electrolyte completely surround both the metal-containing electrode and the sacrificial electrode,
- wherein the carbon dioxide supplied to the reduction electrode unit is electrochemically reduced, at room temperature, so as to produce at the metal-containing electrode an oxalate salt having a purity of 90% or more when a constant voltage of −3.0 V to −3.2 V vs Ag/Ag+is applied to the system,
- wherein the metal-containing electrode includes a member selected from the group consisting of Hg, Ag, Sn, Cu, Zn, Sb, alloys thereof, amalgam, and combinations thereof, and
- wherein the sacrificial electrode is Zn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.