Chemical Engineering Journal, volume 445, pages 136721

Highly efficient hydrogen production under visible light over g-C3N4-based photocatalysts with low platinum content

Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2022-10-01
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Impact factor15.1
ISSN13858947
General Chemistry
General Chemical Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Environmental Chemistry
Abstract
• 0.01–0.5 % Pt/g-C 3 N 4 was synthesized by thermolysis of melamine cyanurate complex. • Pt/g-C 3 N 4 exhibited the excellent activity in H 2 evolution (λ = 425 nm) • 0.1 % Pt/g-C 3 N 4 achieved outperforming specific activity of 8.5 mol·h −1 per 1 g of Pt. • Large-scale pilot installation for hydrogen production (total volume 1 l) was constructed. • PEMFC with max output 1 W successfully was powered by produced hydrogen. The successive combination including thermolysis of melamine cyanurate complex, chemisorption of platinum from the solution of the labile nitratocomplex and, finally, reductive treatment with hydrogen was implemented to obtain highly active Pt/g-C 3 N 4 photocatalysts (0.01–0.5 wt% of Pt). The prepared in this way materials evinces photocatalytic activity in hydrogen evolution reaction from TEOA/water solutions with the superb rate of H 2 evolution per platinum atom loaded (1560 h −1 ) and the net rates being among the highest reported to date values (11 mmol·g −1 ·h −1 ). Such a remarkable performance correlates with the structure of these materials where the branchy net of the pores provides easy access of reagents to and ejection of products from the nanoparticulated Pt co-catalysts. A crucial contribution to the formation of the noted Pt/g-C 3 N 4 morphology ascribed to the self-catalyzed hydrogenation of the Pt/g-C 3 N 4 composites resulting in “scarifying” of the g-C 3 N 4 particles preferentially at the surface layer where Pt species are located. Taking into account the high productivity of the synthesized Pt/C 3 N 4 materials and robustness of the preparation method this approach can be convenient for the large-scale applications that were successfully demonstrated under pilot installation (total volume 1 l) with the fuel cell (PEMFC with max output 1 W) as a hydrogen consumer. Evaluation of the productivity of the large-scale reactor for hydrogen production with a scaled-up installation was carried out. This study also grants a new vision on developing expandable synthetic approaches to enhance the performance of carbon nitride-based photocatalysts and at the same time mitigate the noble metal co-catalysts usage.

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Vasilchenko D. et al. Highly efficient hydrogen production under visible light over g-C3N4-based photocatalysts with low platinum content // Chemical Engineering Journal. 2022. Vol. 445. p. 136721.
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Vasilchenko D., Zhurenok A., Saraev A. A., Gerasimov E., Cherepanova S. V., Tkachev S., Plusnin P., Kozlova E. A. Highly efficient hydrogen production under visible light over g-C3N4-based photocatalysts with low platinum content // Chemical Engineering Journal. 2022. Vol. 445. p. 136721.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1016/j.cej.2022.136721
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cej.2022.136721
TI - Highly efficient hydrogen production under visible light over g-C3N4-based photocatalysts with low platinum content
T2 - Chemical Engineering Journal
AU - Vasilchenko, Danila
AU - Zhurenok, Angelina
AU - Saraev, Andrey A.
AU - Gerasimov, Evgeny
AU - Cherepanova, Svetlana V.
AU - Tkachev, Sergey
AU - Plusnin, Pavel
AU - Kozlova, Ekaterina A.
PY - 2022
DA - 2022/10/01 00:00:00
PB - Elsevier
SP - 136721
VL - 445
SN - 1385-8947
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@article{2022_Vasilchenko,
author = {Danila Vasilchenko and Angelina Zhurenok and Andrey A. Saraev and Evgeny Gerasimov and Svetlana V. Cherepanova and Sergey Tkachev and Pavel Plusnin and Ekaterina A. Kozlova},
title = {Highly efficient hydrogen production under visible light over g-C3N4-based photocatalysts with low platinum content},
journal = {Chemical Engineering Journal},
year = {2022},
volume = {445},
publisher = {Elsevier},
month = {oct},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cej.2022.136721},
pages = {136721},
doi = {10.1016/j.cej.2022.136721}
}
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