Advanced Electrochemistry

Paper Code: 
CHY - 423(D)
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

To understand the advanced aspects of Electrochemistry including Electrochemical Energy storage, Corrosion, Fuel-cell, Electrocatalysis and Voltammetry

9.00
Unit I: 
Electrochemical Energy Storage

Properties of Electrochemical energy stores: Measure of battery performance, Charging and discharging of batteries, Storage density, Energy density.

Classical Batteries: (i) Lead Acid (ii) Nickel –Cadmium (iii) Zinc – Manganese dioxide

Modern Batteries (i) Zinc- Air (ii) Nickel – Metal Hydride (iii) Lithium Battery.

9.00
Unit II: 
Corrosion

Electrochemical corrosion of metals, thermodynamics and stability of metals, potential –pH (or Pourbaix) Diagrams, uses and abuses, corrosion current and corrosion potential – Evans diagram.

Measurement of corrosion rate : weight loss method and Electrochemical method.

Inhibition of Corrosion: Cathodic and anodic protection (i) by addition of substances to the electrolytic environment (ii) By charging corroding metal from external source, organic inhibition: The fuller story, Green inhibitors.

Passivation: Nature of the passive layer, Structure of the passive film, methods of passivation, depassivation, Localized corrosion.

9.00
Unit III: 
Fuel Cells

Electrochemical Generators (Fuel Cells) : Efficiency, Kinetics of fuel cell reactions, Types of fuel cells: alkaline fuel cell, phosphoric acid fuel cell, High temperature fuel cell, Solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Direct MeOH fuelcell, Molten Carbonate Fuel cell, Solid oxide Fuel cell, applications of fuel cells.

9.00
Unit IV: 
Electrocatalysis

Chemcial catalysis and Electrocatalysis, cathodic and anodic electro catalysis; electrocatalysis of mixed oxides of titanium dopped with rare earth oxides (Ebonex); Electrolysis in simple redox reactions; Electrocatalysis of carbon nanotubes and bimetallic (alloys) Nano-structured materials.

9.00
Unit V: 
Voltammetry

General Principle and applications, linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), cyclic voltammetry (CV), square wave voltammetry, stripping voltammetry, cathodic adsorptive stripping voltammetry (CAdSV), anodic adsorptive stripping voltammetry (AAdSV) applications of stripping analysis. 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Modern Electrochemistry Vol. I & II, Second Edition; J.O.M. Bockris and  A.K.N. Reddy; Plenum Press, New York, 2000.
  2. Fundamentals of Electrochemistry, V. S. Bagotsky, 2nd Ed., John Wiley and Sons, 2006.
  3. Advanced Physical chemistry, J.N. Gurtu & A. Gurtu, A Pragati Edition, 2011.
  4. Topics in Pure and applied electroChemistry, Ed S. K. Rangrajan, SASET Publication, Karaikudi, 1975.
  5. Introduction to Polarography and allied techniques by K. Zutshi, New Age International publications, NewDelhi, 2006.
  6. Polarographic Techniques, Louis Meites, McGraw-Hill, 1963.
  7. Fuelcell Handbook, 7th Edition, US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, West Verginia.
  8. Engineering Chemistry, S. K. Jain and K. D. Gupta, Jaipur Publishing House, Jaipur.
Academic Year: 
2016-2017
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