Some topics in applied electrochemical kinetics
The designer of an electrochemical reactor attempts to minimize the inevitable energy losses associated with irreversible processes. The slow steps, which are the greatest offenders, have to be identified. Fortunately, diagnostic techniques have arisen from developments in electrochemical kinetics -- not only for electrode processes but also for the mass-transfer and phase-separation processes which occur in series and parallel in every electrochemical reactor. Although electroplating, anodizing and electromachining, electrowinning and electrosynthesis are acknowledged as activities also of great importance to Canadian life, in this paper the examples will be drawn from the authors' work on batteries and fuel cells, i.e. from attempts to identify the slow steps and the wasteful side reactions, and to design around them. The mutual influence of theoretical ideas and practical achievements is the unifying theme of this lecture.
- Research Organization:
- Defence Research Establishment, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)
- OSTI ID:
- 5974969
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-097405/5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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