CN100433437C - Method for recovering performance of poisoned proton exchange membrane fuel cell - Google Patents

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CN100433437C
CN100433437C CNB2005101367485A CN200510136748A CN100433437C CN 100433437 C CN100433437 C CN 100433437C CN B2005101367485 A CNB2005101367485 A CN B2005101367485A CN 200510136748 A CN200510136748 A CN 200510136748A CN 100433437 C CN100433437 C CN 100433437C
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This invention relates to a proton exchange membrane fuel cell, specifically, a method to restore the poison proton exchange membrane fuel cell performance, which uses cyclic voltammetry to the proton exchange membrane fuel cell electrodes poisoned by the impurity gas in the air, making impurities absorbed by the electric catalyst being oxidation desorbed, and restoring the catalytic activity, thus restoring the electrode performance; in which: the said cyclic voltammetry processes cyclic scan to the proton exchange membrane fuel cell bipolar in the certain potential range. The method of the invention can restore the electrode performance, and meanwhile effectively solve the problems of the poisoned fuel cell electrode that the performance reduced, and the life shortened, thereby promoting the development of fuel cell.

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A kind of method that makes the proton exchange film fuel battery performance recovery that poisons
Technical field
The present invention relates to Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, is the method that a kind of making alive recovers the proton exchange film fuel battery performance of negative electrode foreign gas poisoning; A kind of specifically cyclic voltammetry that adopts applies high voltage with the poisoning impurity of chemisorbed on electrode, makes the method for the proton exchange film fuel battery performance recovery of the impurity desorption that is adsorbed on the electrode.
Background technology
Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) removes the general characteristic with fuel cell, and as energy transformation efficiency height, environmental friendliness etc. start fast but also have room temperature simultaneously, no electrolyte loss, and the life-span is long, outstanding features such as specific power and specific energy height.Therefore, it not only can be used for building the dispersion power station, also be suitable for especially as removable power source, be electric motor car and do not rely on air to advance one of ideal candidates power supply of submarine, be the general a kind of novel removable power sources of the army and the people, future with the hydrogen energy era of hydrogen as main energy carrier, it is best family power source.
Along with going deep into of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells research, the endurance issues of battery is subjected to researcher's extensive concern and attention day by day, and ambiance adaptability is importance wherein.Because many employing surrounding airs in the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells running, so the performance and the life-span of various foreign gases that contained in the air and battery are closely related.
NO, NO 2, H 2S, SO 2Deng all being major pollutants in the atmosphere, be mostly that industrial waste gas and motor vehicle exhaust emission cause.In a single day airborne foreign gas enter battery, will produce absorption on eelctro-catalyst.Absorption is divided into two kinds, NO, NO 2Deng the physical absorption that is adsorbed as on eelctro-catalyst, H 2S, SO 2On eelctro-catalyst, be adsorbed as chemisorbed.In a single day impurity adsorbs on eelctro-catalyst, will occupy the active sites of Pt.And acquire a certain degree when adsorbing, when requiring of hydrogen-oxygen catalytic reaction can't be satisfied in the residual activity position, the performance of battery will descend.And battery performance will be in case the performance degradation that decline, the especially impurity of chemisorbed cause will be difficult to recovery by battery self.
About negative electrode foreign gas on eelctro-catalyst adsorption mechanism and to the influence degree of battery, existing a few patents report.But performance how to recover to have been poisoned electrode is not seen relevant report as yet.
Summary of the invention
For remedying the deficiencies in the prior art, the method that the object of the present invention is to provide a kind of proton exchange film fuel battery performance that can make fuel cell electrode poisoning back performance recovery and can increase the service life to recover.
For achieving the above object, technical scheme of the present invention is: adopt cyclic voltammetry, the electrode that the foreign gas that is contained in the air is poisoned imposes high voltage, makes the oxidized desorption of the impurity that adsorbs on the eelctro-catalyst, recover catalytic activity, thereby recover electrode performance.
The method concrete steps that proton exchange film fuel battery performance recovers are as follows:
(1) cell cathode that will have been poisoned feeds nitrogen, and anode feeds hydrogen.
(2) poison the battery ventilation after 60 minutes with described, treat that voltage is stable, it is carried out cyclic voltammetry scan.
Wherein: sweep limits is: cathode voltage is 0.05V~1.45V, and sweep speed Wei 5mV/s, 10mV/s, 15mV/s; The still logical hydrogen of anode in the scanning process, the still logical nitrogen of negative electrode.
The principle of the invention is: to contain H 2The air of S impurity is an example.With pure air operation battery the time, battery performance is stable.Contain H when switching to 2Behind the air of the S foreign gas operation battery, battery performance very short time the sharp fall of having to go to the toilet low, H is described 2S foreign gas has tangible poisoning effect to the PEMFC electrode.After adopting cyclic voltammetry, in the cyclic voltammetry scan process, in the anode scanning potential range of first lap more than 0.9V, at 0.92V and 1.12V place two tangible oxidation peak have appearred, and the most outstanding with the oxidation peak at 1.12V place.This is because following reaction takes place on the Pt electrode S:
H 2 S - Pt ⇒ Pt - S + H 2 [1]
H 2 S + Pt - H ⇒ Pt - S + 3 / 2 H 2 [2]
In second circle and later several circles scanning, degenerating fast in two such peaks, disappears substantially during to the 5th circle.The good oxidation desorption of cyclic voltammetric the has been described impurity of chemisorbed on eelctro-catalyst, electrode performance obtains good recovery.
The present invention has following advantage:
1. prolonged the useful life of fuel cell electrode.Adopt method of the present invention can recover electrode performance, efficiently solve fuel cell electrode poisoning back decreased performance, lost of life problem, thereby can promote the development of fuel cell.
2. method is simple.The present invention is easy and simple to handle, takes effect rapidly, and electrode performance is recovered at short notice fully.
3. solved the environmental suitability problem of PEMFC.PEMFC is under abominable air ambient, and performance can obviously descend.Adopt this method, can recover electrode performance rapidly, thereby better adapt to different environment.
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Fig. 1 be under the embodiment of the invention different operating condition cell voltage with the result of variations figure of cumulative time;
The polarization curve comparison diagram of Fig. 2 for obtaining under the embodiment of the invention different condition;
Fig. 3 feeds 200ppmH for the embodiment of the invention 2The cyclic voltammetric spectrogram that obtains behind the S;
Among the figure: Recover with air: recover CV with air: cyclic voltammetric, IVtest: polarization curve test, Accumulative running time: Cumulative Elapsed Time.Voltage: voltage, Current density: current density, Potential vs.SHE: with respect to the voltage of standard hydrogen electrode.
Embodiment:
Illustrate: present embodiment is by accelerated tests, and negative electrode feeds and contains higher concentration (200ppm) H 2The air of S makes battery poison at short notice.Again feed pure air, battery performance can not recover voluntarily.Adopt the cyclic voltammetric method this moment, and electrode is imposed higher voltage, then can recover battery performance.
Embodiment 1
1. toxicity processing test:
(1) assembling monocell: anode reaction gas is a pure hydrogen, and cathode reaction gas is a pure air.
Polarization curve test: 1. with pure air constant current density (700mA/cm 2) polarization operation battery a period of time, recording voltage-time graph (referring to Fig. 1).
2. move the above-mentioned battery that assembles, treat the stable back test of battery performance polarization curve.Wherein: adopt the steady-state polarization mode during test polarization curve, each measuring current density points is measured 5 minutes (referring to Fig. 2) approximately.
(2) poison monocell: anode reaction gas is a pure hydrogen, and cathode reaction gas is 200ppmH 2The air of S foreign gas.
Polarization curve test: 1. to contain H 2Air constant current density polarization operation a period of time of S foreign gas, write down constant current density (700mA/cm equally 2) polarization curve.
2. treat to test H with the steady-state polarization mode after battery performance is stablized 2Battery polarization curve (referring to Fig. 2) after S poisons.
(3) detection poisons monocell: anode reaction gas is a pure hydrogen, and cathode reaction gas switches to pure air once more, and constant current density polarization operation battery also writes down the steady-state polarization that the constant current density polarization curve is measured battery subsequently once more.
2. adopt cyclic voltammetry to recover battery performance
1. the above-mentioned cell cathode that has been poisoned is fed nitrogen, anode feeds hydrogen.
2. poison the battery ventilation after 60 minutes with described, treat that voltage is stable, it is carried out cyclic voltammetry scan.
Wherein: sweep limits is: cathode voltage is 0.05V~1.45V, sweep speed 10mV/s; The still logical hydrogen of anode in the scanning process, the still logical nitrogen of negative electrode.
So-called cyclic voltammetric is meant to apply the current potential that increases (or minimizing) with certain step gradually on electrode.When arriving maximum (or minimum) current potential of wishing, the direction counter-rotating of " scanning ".Measure the electric current of every step, draw the figure of electric current then current potential.
3. polarization curve test: measure the steady-state polarization that battery constant current density operation polarization curve is also measured battery subsequently.
(3) interpretation of result:
As seen from Figure 1, with pure air operation battery the time, battery performance is stable.Contain H when switching to 2Behind the air of S foreign gas, battery performance very short time have to go to the toilet the sharp fall low, H is described 2S foreign gas has tangible poisoning effect to the PEMFC electrode.And after the employing cyclic voltammetry, battery performance almost returns to initial level.
From Fig. 2, can obviously find out, contain H in employing 2Behind the air operation battery of S, battery performance descends greatly, and this illustrates H once more 2S is obvious to the battery performance poisoning effect.And after the employing cyclic voltammetry, the performance of electrode is significantly improved.
From Fig. 3, can see, in the cyclic voltammetry scan process, in the anode scanning potential range of first lap more than 0.9V, two tangible oxidation peak occur at 0.92V and 1.12V place, and the most outstanding with the oxidation peak at 1.12V place.This is because following reaction takes place on the Pt electrode S:
H 2 S - Pt ⇒ Pt - S + H 2 [1]
H 2 S + Pt - H ⇒ Pt - S + 3 / 2 H 2 [2]
In second circle and later several circles scanning, degenerating fast in two such peaks, disappears substantially during to the 5th circle.The good oxidation desorption of cyclic voltammetric the has been described impurity of chemisorbed on eelctro-catalyst.Can see also that from Fig. 1, Fig. 2 electrode performance obtains good recovery.
Embodiment 2
Difference from Example 1 is:
1. adopt cyclic voltammetry to recover battery performance
1. the above-mentioned cell cathode that has been poisoned is fed nitrogen, anode feeds hydrogen.
2. poison the battery ventilation after 60 minutes with described, treat that voltage is stable, it is carried out cyclic voltammetry scan.
Wherein: sweep limits is: cathode voltage is 0.05V~1.45V, sweep speed 5mV/s; The still logical hydrogen of anode in the scanning process, the still logical nitrogen of negative electrode.
Embodiment 3
Difference from Example 1 is:
1. adopt cyclic voltammetry to recover battery performance
1. the above-mentioned cell cathode that has been poisoned is fed nitrogen, anode feeds hydrogen.
2. poison the battery ventilation after 60 minutes with described, treat that voltage is stable, it is carried out cyclic voltammetry scan.
Wherein: sweep limits is: cathode voltage is 0.05V~1.45V, sweep speed 15mV/s; The still logical hydrogen of anode in the scanning process, the still logical nitrogen of negative electrode.
By this example as can be seen, at relatively poor, the H of PEMFC process air quality 2During higher regional of S content, battery performance can be decayed.Even return to area with fresh air, battery performance also can't recover.Adopt alive way this moment, can make the oxidized desorption of the impurity that is adsorbed on the electrode, thereby recover the activity of eelctro-catalyst, and battery performance is also restored.

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1. method that the proton exchange film fuel battery performance that poisons is recovered, it is characterized in that: the proton exchange membrane fuel cell electrode that the foreign gas that is contained in the air is poisoned adopts cyclic voltammetry, make the oxidized desorption of the impurity that adsorbs on the eelctro-catalyst, recover catalytic activity, thereby recover electrode performance;
Wherein: described cyclic voltammetry is meant carries out scan round to electrode in certain potential range;
Adopt the cyclic voltammetry concrete steps to be:
(1) cell cathode that will have been poisoned feeds nitrogen, and anode feeds hydrogen;
(2) poison the battery ventilation after 60 minutes with described, treat that voltage is stable, it is carried out cyclic voltammetry scan;
Sweep limits is: cathode voltage is 0.05V~1.45V, and sweep speed is respectively 5mV/s, 10mV/s, 15mV/s; The still logical hydrogen of anode in the scanning process, the still logical nitrogen of negative electrode.
2. according to the described method that makes the proton exchange film fuel battery performance recovery that poisons of claim 1, its feature also is: described cyclic voltammetry is that the foreign gas of chemisorbed on the Pt catalyst in the proton exchange membrane fuel cell electrode is carried out the oxidation desorption.
3. according to the described method that makes the proton exchange film fuel battery performance recovery that poisons of claim 1, its feature also is: the foreign gas that contains in the described air is H 2S, SO 2, NO or NO 2
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