Journal of Pollution Effects & Control
Open Access

Development of RuO2 nanorod and nanosheet electrodes for high chlorine electrocatalytic activities

Annual Congress on Environmental Pollution and Sustainable Energy

July 20-22, 2017 Melbourne, Australia

Tran Le Luu

Vietnamese German University, Vietnam

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Pollut Eff Cont

Abstract :

RuO2 is current used as common active component of Dimensional Stable Anode (DSA) in chlorine evolution. Recently, the improvement of chlorine electrocatalytic activity by using nanostructures of RuO2 electrodes received a lot of attention in the chlor-alkali industry in order to reduce the energy consumption of this process. In this study, the RuO2 nanorod and nanosheet electrodes have been facile fabricated by using sol-gel method with organic surfactants as templates. The obtained RuO2 nanorod and nanosheet electrodes show enhanced about active surface areas, especially outer active surface areas, which are attributed to the increase of mass transfers in comparison with the conventional nanograin electrode, respectively. The chlorine electrocatalytic activities increase up to 20% in case of nanorod electrode and 35% in case of nanosheet electrode in comparison with nanograin electrode. The RuO2 nanorod with morphological features of 80 nm length, 20-30 nm width and the RuO2 nanosheet with 40-60 nm length, 40 nm width are formed on the surface of Ti substrates. These results manifest that the template RuO2 nanorod and a nanosheet electrodes are promising anode materials for chlor-alkali industry in future application.

Biography :

Email: luu.tl@vgu.edu.vn