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Design of an ammonia electrolyzer for hydrogen production

	International Journal of Recent Engineering Science (IJRES)
	© 2020 by IJRES Journal
	Volume-7 Issue-5
	Year of Publication : 2020
	Authors : Rosanna Viscardi, Pecoraro Matteo
	DOI :    10.14445/23497157/IJRES-V7I5P103

Citation 

MLA Style :Rosanna Viscardi, Pecoraro Matteo "Design of an ammonia electrolyzer for hydrogen production" International Journal of Recent Engineering Science 7.5(2020):18-21. 

APA Style :Rosanna Viscardi, Pecoraro Matteo. Design of an ammonia electrolyzer for hydrogen production  International Journal of Recent Engineering Science, 7(5),18-21.

Abstract
The design and performance of an alkaline ammonia electrolyzer for hydrogen production and its feasibility for fuel cell applications are presented in this work. By comparison of the energy consumption and power for the ammonia electrolytic and water electrolyzers at different hydrogen production rates, the total energy consumption by the water electrolyzer as well as the power required is much higher than for the ammonia electrolytic cell (up to 65% higher). For this reason, the ammonia electrolytic cell has the potential to operate by stealing part of the energy of a PEM hydrogen fuel cell. Furthermore, the lower energy consumption when compared to a water electrolyzer indicates that renewable energy sources can operate the ammonia electrolytic cell to produce hydrogen on demand. In this paper, we suggest an electrochemical study on a Pt-based ammonia oxidation and hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts. These materials are exciting; significantly, Pt-Ir supported on carbon improves the performance of Platinum on Carbon, reference commercial, so that the energy consumed by the ammonia electrolytic cell is lower.

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Keywords
Ammonia, Ammonia Electrolyzer, H2 production, Platinum catalyst, Platinum-Iridium catalyst