For treatment of sulfion-containing wastewater,coupling the electrochemical sulfion oxidation reaction(SOR)with hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)can be an ideal way for sulfur and H_(2)resources recovery.Herein,we synt...For treatment of sulfion-containing wastewater,coupling the electrochemical sulfion oxidation reaction(SOR)with hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)can be an ideal way for sulfur and H_(2)resources recovery.Herein,we synthesize a metal-modified carbon nanotube arrays electrode(Co@N-CNTs/CC)for SOR and HER.This electrode has excellent performance for SOR and HER attributed to the unique array structure.It can achieve 99.36 mA/cm^(2)at 0.6 V for SOR,and 10 mA/cm^(2)at 0.067 V for HER.Density functional theory calculations verify that metal modification is able to regulate the electronic structure of carbon nanotube,which is able to optimize the adsorption of intermediates.Employed Co@N-CNTs/CC as bifunctional elec-trodes to establish a hybrid electrolytic cell can reduce about 67%of energy consumption compared with the traditional water splitting electrolytic cell.Finally,the hybrid electrolytic cell is used to treat actual sulfion-containing wastewater,achieving the sulfur yield of 30 mg h^(−1)cm^(−2)and the hydrogen production of 0.64 mL/min.展开更多
基金supported by Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(Nos.ZR2022QE076,ZR2021JQ15,ZR2019YQ20)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52002145,52202092,51972147,52022037)Taishan Scholars Project Special Funds(No.tsqn201812083).
文摘For treatment of sulfion-containing wastewater,coupling the electrochemical sulfion oxidation reaction(SOR)with hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)can be an ideal way for sulfur and H_(2)resources recovery.Herein,we synthesize a metal-modified carbon nanotube arrays electrode(Co@N-CNTs/CC)for SOR and HER.This electrode has excellent performance for SOR and HER attributed to the unique array structure.It can achieve 99.36 mA/cm^(2)at 0.6 V for SOR,and 10 mA/cm^(2)at 0.067 V for HER.Density functional theory calculations verify that metal modification is able to regulate the electronic structure of carbon nanotube,which is able to optimize the adsorption of intermediates.Employed Co@N-CNTs/CC as bifunctional elec-trodes to establish a hybrid electrolytic cell can reduce about 67%of energy consumption compared with the traditional water splitting electrolytic cell.Finally,the hybrid electrolytic cell is used to treat actual sulfion-containing wastewater,achieving the sulfur yield of 30 mg h^(−1)cm^(−2)and the hydrogen production of 0.64 mL/min.
