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Agricultural Waste Derived Silicon Carbide Composite Nanopowders as Efficient Coelectrocatalysts for Water Splitting Full article

Journal

Journal of Cleaner Production
ISSN: 0959-6526

Output data

Year: 2024, Volume: 442, Article number : 140890, Pages count : 13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140890

Tags

Agricultural wastes; Silicon carbide; Nanopowders; Plasma synthesis; Oxidative carbonization; Electrocatalysis

Authors

Nikitin Dmitriy S. ^1,2 , Shanenkov Ivan I. ^1,2 , Yeletsky Petr M. ³ , Nassyrbayev Artur ² , Tabakaev Roman B. ^1,2 , Shanenkova Yuliya L. ² , Ryskulov Dastan N. ² , Tsimmerman Alexander I. ^1,2 , Sivkov Aleksandr A. ^4,2

Affiliations

1	Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), Tyumen State University, 6 Volodarskogo St., Tyumen, 625003, Russian Federation
2	School of Energy and Power Engineering, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30 Lenin Av., Tomsk, 634050, Russian Federation
3	Federal Research Center Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, 5 Lavrentieva Av., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
4	College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin st., Changchun, 130023, PR China

Funding (1)

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

FEWZ-2024-0013

Various silicon carbide nanostructures are attracting close attention due to their excellent performance and great potential, including utilization in a variety of catalytic applications. Approaches, utilizing different industrial wastes as a starting material for the synthesis of SiC nanoparticles, are especially distinguished due to their environmental friendliness. This paper demonstrates a new two-stage technique of the preparation of dispersed SiC/C nanocomposite. A highly mineralized carbonaceous residue obtained by thermal processing of agricultural waste was used as a precursor for the synthesis in a pulsed arc discharge plasma. Rice husks, oat husks and oat straw were chosen as agricultural wastes with a high content of silicon in the mineral component. Carbonaceous residues (biochars) were obtained from the selected wastes by oxidative carbonization in a reactor with a fluidized bed of a deep oxidation catalyst at 460 °C. High-energy (up to 20 kJ) treatment of the obtained biochars in a pulsed (up to 1 ms) arc discharge plasma jet resulted in synthesizing a nanodispersed material (particle size <50 nm) containing hexagonal silicon carbide α-SiC. The principal possibility of using the synthesized SiC-based composite as a catalyst and cocatalyst of platinum in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of water splitting is shown. The most impressive results (η10 = 18–28 mV, η100 = 84–98 mV, b = 32–64 mV) comparable with standard commercial Pt/C samples were obtained by modifying the synthesized SiC-based composite with 5 % platinum. Thus, the developed approach allows us to convert the agricultural waste into useful high-tech products in the form of an electrocatalytically active material.

Nikitin D.S. , Shanenkov I.I. , Yeletsky P.M. , Nassyrbayev A. , Tabakaev R.B. , Shanenkova Y.L. , Ryskulov D.N. , Tsimmerman A.I. , Sivkov A.A.
Agricultural Waste Derived Silicon Carbide Composite Nanopowders as Efficient Coelectrocatalysts for Water Splitting
Journal of Cleaner Production. 2024. V.442. 140890 :1-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140890 WOS Scopus РИНЦ ANCAN OpenAlex

Submitted:	Aug 29, 2023
Accepted:	Jan 21, 2024
Published online:	Jan 27, 2024
Published print:	Feb 25, 2024

Web of science:	WOS:001182639600001
Scopus:	2-s2.0-85184146452
Elibrary:	66551766
Chemical Abstracts:	2024:326460
Chemical Abstracts (print):	186:172183
OpenAlex:	W4391275030

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