Valorising lignocellulosic biomass to high-performance electrocatalysts via anaerobic digestion pretreatment

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作者
Yang, Juntao [1 ,2 ]
Tang, Songbiao [2 ]
Mei, Wenjie [2 ]
Chen, Yiquan [2 ]
Yi, Weiming [1 ]
Lv, Pengmei [2 ]
Yang, Gaixiu [2 ]
机构
[1] Shandong Univ Technol, Sch Agr Engn & Food Sci, Zibo 255049, Shandong, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Inst Energy Convers, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Biomass; Anaerobic digestion; Biochar material; Oxygen reduction reaction; Electrocatalysis; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; CARBON MATERIALS; NITROGEN; BIOCHAR; CATALYST;
D O I
10.1007/s42773-024-00311-8
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Anaerobic digestion (AD) was initially evaluated as a potential preprocessing method for preparing biomass-based carbon electrocatalysts in this study. The AD pretreatment succeeded in the structural depolymerization and nitrogen enrichment of Hybrid Pennisetum, which provided favorable conditions to achieve efficient and homogeneous nitrogen introduction due to microorganism community enrichment and provided a porous structure by degradation of the biodegradable components. The resulted biochar exhibited improved physiochemical properties including higher specific surface areas, nitrogen content and graphitization degree than that obtained from pyrolyzing raw biomass. These improvements were positively correlated with the AD time and showed to have enhanced the performance in oxygen reduction reaction and practical microbial fuel cell applications. Amongst the investigated samples, the obtained biochar pretreated by AD for 15 days exhibited the most excellent performance with an onset potential of 0.17 V (VS. saturated calomel electrode) and the maximal power density of 543.2 mW cm-2 assembled in microbial fuel cells. This study suggested applying AD as a new biological pretreatment in the preparation of biomass-based electrocatalysts, and provided a unique pathway for fabricating high-performance biochar-based catalysts by structure optimization and N-containing active sites construction via gentle biological method, thereby providing a cost-effective method to fabricate metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction. Anaerobic digestion pretreatment was conducted to assist electrocatalyst preparation.The biological pretreatment succeeded in carbohydrates decomposition and nitrogen enrichment.Pretreatment derived biochar significantly increased the ORR activity and microbial fuel cell performance.
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