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http://dx.doi.org/10.5229/JKES.2004.7.1.021

Electrochemical Behavior of Dissolved Hydrogen and Hydrogen Peroxide in Boric Acid Solution at the Elevated Temperature  

Yeon Jei-Won (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Chemistry Research Division)
Woo Seung-Kyun (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Chemistry Research Division)
Choi Young-Ku (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Chemistry Research Division)
Jung Yongju (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Chemistry Research Division)
Kim Won-Ho (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Chemistry Research Division)
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Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society / v.7, no.1, 2004 , pp. 21-25 More about this Journal
Abstract
The electrochemical behaviors of dissolved hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide at a platinum disk electrode were investigated in boric acid solution by potentiostatic polarization method at the temperature of 25 and $200^{\circ}C$. The oxidation of dissolved hydrogen at $25^{\circ}C$ was kinetically controlled reaction, the rate of which depends upon the electron transfer on the electrode surface. As temperature was raised, however, the electrochemical characteristics of dissolved hydrogen were changed from a kinetically controlled reaction to a diffusion controlled one. One notable feature, with dissolved hydrogen at high temperature, is that an abnormal potential range was observed, where the oxidation rate of dissolved hydrogen rapidly decreased just before starting potential of water oxidation. We think it is caused by the deactivation of the electrode that results from the adsorption of hydroxyl ion on the surface of the platinum disk. On the contrary, a definite change with temperature was not identified in the case of the hydrogen peroxide except for the increase in current density that was due to the increasing diffusion coefcient with an increase of temperature.
Keywords
Electrochemical; Dissolved hydrogen; Hydrogen peroxide; High temperature;
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