Research and Application of Materials Science

The Influence of Dry or Wet Activating Process to the Electrochemical Features of Biowaste Carbon

SONGZhonghe, ZHAOYanmei, MAShangwen, RENTiezhen

Abstract


The utilization of biowaste to the activated carbon (AC) as electrode material is conducive to alleviating the energy crisis and promoting the high value-added. The popular KOH activation has been applied for years, but rare report clarified the difference of dry and wet activation, with which the batch producing technique could be different. Here nitrogen doped hierarchical AC was derived from wood chip by a wet or dry KOH activation. The surface area, framework structure and surface feature were characterized to reveal the effect of wet and dry activation. 1.44 at% of nitrogen doped AC was made by dry KOH activation, which was higher than the AC derived from wet KOH activation with 1.36 at% of nitrogen. Their electrochemical properties were investigated in 6 mol L-1 of KOH, the capacitance of wAC was 401 F g-1 at 0.5 A g-1, but dAC possessed a capacitance of 215 F g-1. These indicated that AC obtained by using wet KOH activation displayed a potential application in energy field.

Keywords


Activated carbon; KOH activation process; supercapacitor

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33142/rams.v5i2.12705

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