摘要
PhotoelectrochemicalandelectrochemicalreductionofCO2intoorganicchemicalsispromisingfordirectlyorindirectlytransformingsolarenergyintochemicalenergyforfurtherutilization.However,researchontheelectroactivespeciesintheseprocesseshasbeenratherlimited.Inthiswork,weinvestigatedpossibleelectroactivespecies（CO2orHCO3–）involvedintheelectrochemicalreductionofKHCO3atelevatedtemperatureswithoutCO2bubbling.TheresultsshowedthatCO,CH4,andC2H4wereproducedafterelectrochemicalreductionof3.0mol/LKHCO3atelevatedtemperatureonaCuelectrodeevenwithoutCO2bubbling,althoughtheirfaradaicefficiencieswerelow（<6%）.MeasurementsforCO2generationfromthedecompositionofHCO3–showedthatelevatedtemperatureandhighHCO3–concentrationstronglypromotedthisprocess.Theseresultssuggestedthatthein-situproducedCO2fromthedecompositionofHCO3–wasprobablytheelectroactivespeciesintheelectrochemicalreductionofHCO3–withoutCO2bubbling.ChangesoftheGibbsfreeenergy,rateconstant,andactivationenergyofthedecompositionofHCO3–intoCO2werealsoinvestigatedandcalculatedfromtheexperimentaldata.
出版日期
2016年03月13日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
