公开(公告)号：US20230183873A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-15

申请号：US18164201

申请日：2023-02-03

申请人： THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

发明人： Aoxue HUANG ,  Roxanna DELIMA ,  Ryan JANSONIUS ,  Curtis BERLINGUETTE

IPC分类号： C25B15/08 ,  C25B1/04 ,  B01D53/22 ,  B01D71/02 ,  C25B11/081 ,  C25B11/052 ,  C01B15/029

CPC分类号： C25B15/081 ,  C25B1/04 ,  B01D53/229 ,  B01D71/02231 ,  C25B11/081 ,  C25B11/052 ,  C01B15/0295

摘要： Apparatuses and methods for producing hydrogen peroxide by performing coupled chemical and electrochemical reactions are disclosed. An electrochemical cell has a chemical reaction chamber configured to hydrogenate a shuttle molecule and an electrochemical chamber configured to electrochemically dissociate water to form hydrogen ions at an anode, and to reduce the hydrogen ions to atomic hydrogen at a cathode. The chemical reaction chamber and the anode chamber are separated by a metallic membrane. The metallic membrane acts as a cathode of the cell, a hydrogen-selective layer and a catalyst. The metallic membrane may comprise a layer of palladium or a palladium alloy. A layer of co-catalyst may optionally be electrodeposited on the layer of palladium or palladium alloy. An ion exchange membrane separates the metallic membrane and the anode chamber. The hydrogenated shuttle molecule may be supplied to a reactor for contacting an oxygen-containing gas to yield hydrogen peroxide.