Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 29, 2016 - July 01, 2016
For the storage of the renewable energy using formic aid, the combination of the direct formic acid fuel cell which can directly produce the electric power using formic acid and the CO2 electrochemical reduction (ERC) which can produce the formic acid using the electric power derived from the renewable energy and CO2 emitted from direct formic acid fuel cell has been proposed. In order to achieve this process, improvement of the formic acid production rate is required. It has been known that formic acid could be obtained at high yield Sn catalyst at ERC, however, production rate was still low due to the high overpotential. In this study, the supported Sn catalyst has been produced for the enhancement of the production rate of the formic acid by ERC. It was found that supported Sn catalyst showed higher CO2 reduction current comparing to that obtained by conventional Sn nano particles.
