Advanced Electrochemical System for Energy Storage Through CO2 Conversion

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Together for the challenge

The project, supported by both Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures (AITF) and CFREF, involves the conversion of CO2 to useful chemicals and fuels using high temperature solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs), devices that run in the opposite direction of solid oxide fuel cells but involve similar concepts, materials challenges, and operating conditions to achieve Power to Fuels™. These devices can run on (and thus store) grid or distributed electricity produced from conventional hydrocarbons or from renewable electricity, converting CO2 to fuels that can be used to generate energy on demand. Energy storage through the conversion of CO2 to fuels would be secure for long periods of time.

The AITF project will be focused on using multiple novel nano-engineering and processing approaches to optimize and improve the existing catalytic electrode materials we developed for use in SOECs operated at 800 °C with a focus on:

1) The conversion of CO2, in pure form or mixed with steam, forming CO+H2 (syngas) at one electrode and pure CO2 at the other.

2) Carrying out critical Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of these new material preparation routes.

The focus of the CFREF UCalgary-UAlberta collaborative project is to generate SOEC catalysts and cells that can operate at lower temperatures, have passed an LCA evaluation, and have been incorporated in cells sufficiently large to demonstrate to potential industry and government partners. The CFREF UC/UA research will also focus on optimization of the oxygen evolving electrode and developing a much deeper understanding of the reaction mechanisms and the catalyst surfaces through DFT analyses and synchrotron studies, directions that had to be left out of the AITF application due to their funding constraints. Therefore, we will be continuously building on the work being done in the core AITF project through the CFREF UCalgary/UAlberta collaboration, extending the work further, while also co-leveraging both the AITF and CFREF support.

Early Career Award

Zhehui Jin

Award

A-site deficient perovskite with nano-socketed Ni-Fe alloy particles as highly active and durable catalyst for high-temperature CO 2 electrolysis

Zhehui Jin, Wanying Pang, Meng Li

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Advanced Electrochemical System for Energy Storage Through CO2 Conversion

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Graduate students, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Highly Qualified Personnel

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T02 C01 Poster 2017 Open House

T02 C01 PangW Poster 2018 Symposium

Early Career Award

A-site deficient perovskite with nano-socketed Ni-Fe alloy particles as highly active and durable catalyst for high-temperature CO 2 electrolysis

Activating p-Blocking Centers in Perovskite for Efficient Water Splitting

Advance Microstructure Optimization Strategies for High-Temperature CO2 Electrolysis: Infiltration and In-situ Exsolution

Advancing perovskite oxides as efficient catalysts for energy storage and conversion

Alternative fuel cell technologies for cogenerating electrical power and syngas from greenhouse gases

CO2 Reduction over Perovskite Oxides in Solid Oxide Electrolytic Cells

Ce-doped La1-xSrxCr1-yFeyO3 Cathode Catalyst for SOEC CO2 Conversion

Charge transfer dynamics in RuO2/perovskite nanohybrid for enhanced electrocatalysis in solid oxide electrolyzers

Developing perovskite-based electrocatalysts for efficient energy storage and conversion

Development of mixed ionic-electronic conductive air-electrode materials for solid oxide electrolysis/fuel cells at medium operation temperature

Elevated Temperature CO2 Reduction over Perovskite Oxides in Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell

Enhancement of Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction by in-situ Exsolution of Nanoparticles on Perovskite Matrix

Gas Chromatography in the Study of CO2 Conversion

High Performance Tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell based on Ba0.5Sr0.5Ce0.6Zr0.2Gd0.1Y0.1O3-d Proton Conductor Electrolyte

High-temperature electrochemical devices based on dense ceramic membranes for CO2 conversion and utilization

Hydrocarbon Adsorption Characteristics and Absolute Adsorption Estimation in Shale Nanoporous Media from Statistical Thermodynamics Approaches

Infiltration of Ce-doped LaSrCrFeO Cathode Catalyst

Meeting with Prof. Wang from Tsinghua

Nanoscale Phase Measurement for the Shale Challenge: Multi-component Fluids in Multi-scale Volumes

Novel Perovskite Catalyst for Enhanced Oxygen/Hydrogen Evolution Reactions

Ono-Kondo Lattice Model for Propane Multilayer Adsorption in Organic Nanopores in Relation to Shale Gas

Phase Behavior, Adsorption Behavior and Interfacial Properties of Fluids in Shale Reservoirs

Pulsed Laser Deposition of 2D materials and Complex Perovskites

Pulsed Laser Deposition of Novel Perovskite Thin Films for Advanced Electrochemical Systems

Revisiting Methane Absolute Adsorption in Organic Nanopores from Molecular Simulation and Ono-Kondo Lattice Model

Smart Controls of Architecture and Composition toward High Performance Electrocatalysts for Energy Storage

Thermally stable and coke resistant CoMo alloy-based catalysts as fuel electrodes for solid oxide electrochemical cells

Visiting student (outgoing)