Numerical Simulation of an Electrochemical Flow Cell with V-Shape Channel Geometry

作者：Kulyk Nadiia^*; Cherevko Serhiy; Auinger Michael; Laska Claudius; Mayrhofer Karl J J

来源：Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2015, 162(12): H860-H866.

DOI：10.1149/2.0261512jes

The electrolyte flow profile and reactive species concentration distribution are calculated for a Scanning Flow Cell (SFC) by means of finite element method numerical calculation using COMSOL Multiphysics software. In case of a simple one-step reaction with kinetic parameters close to those of the oxygen reduction reaction the applicability of conventional Koutecicy-Levich (KL) analysis for the kinetic current calculations is proved. In addition, the influence of the cell geometry, particularly the angle between inlet and outlet tubes and the tube diameter, is investigated to guide the further optimization of the method. The applicability of the kinetic analysis is demonstrated experimentally on the example of oxygen reduction reaction. (C) The Author(s) 2015. Published by ECS. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse of the work in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

• 出版日期2015