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Residue of Corncob Gasification as Electrode of Supercapacitors: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

Waste and Biomass Valorization volume 12, pages 4123–4140 (2021)Cite this article

Abstract

In this work, it is proven that a biochar obtained from a commercial gasifier can be used as electrode material for supercapacitors (SC). This biochar was produced at 1000 °C from corn cob wastes (GAS), and was compared to an activated biochar obtained in a traditional lab pyrolysis process (LAB). Both biochars were characterized by different physicochemical techniques, observing their amorphous nature with well-developed microporosity dependent of their pretreatment and production methodology. Furthermore, a computational modeling based on Molecular Dynamics at the ReaxFF level was also performed to elucidate the geometry of the resulting microporous structure after simulated pyrolysis. X-ray structure and pore size distribution are in agreement with those results obtained via computational simulation. Both carbon materials were electrochemically evaluated in acidic electrolyte using 3 and 2 electrode systems, obtaining capacitances of 130 F g\(^{-1}\) (20 mV s\(^{-1}\)), and excellent performance compared to commercial activated carbons, with only about 10\(\%\) of capacitance loss after 5000 cycles. However, GAS performance in SC was higher than activated biochar due to its higher micropore volume. This study provides a novel useful application to use gasifier residues from agricultural biomass waste for energy storage devices.

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support to projects PAPIIT (IG100217)—UNAM, and CONACYT (279953). We acknowledge to the technical team of Green to energy (G2E) and its general manager Ing. Daniel Camarena for supplying us the solid residue and photographs of its gasifier. J.M. wants to acknowledge the support given by PAPIIT-(IA102820)-UNAM; Fondo Sectorial de Investigación para la Educación-CONACYT under Project No. A1-S-13294, and the Supercomputing Department of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México for the computing resources under Project No. LANCAD-UNAM-DGTIC-310 and LANCAD-UNAM-DGTIC-370. We also gratefully acknowledge the technical work of Diego R. Lobato, Patricia Eugenia Altuzar Coello for TGA and XRD, Marcos Fuentes Pérez for the FTIR, Eduardo Fuentes Quezada for physisorption, José Martín Baas López through CONACYT project 253986 for elemental analyses (CICY), and Rogelio Morán Elvira for SEM analyses.

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    Diana C. Martínez-Casillas, Ivan Mascorro-Gutiérrez, Jojhar E. Pascoe-Sussoni, Alfredo Guillén-López, Jesús Muñiz & A. Karina Cuentas-Gallegos

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Martínez-Casillas, D.C., Mascorro-Gutiérrez, I., Betancourt-Mendiola, M.L. et al. Residue of Corncob Gasification as Electrode of Supercapacitors: An Experimental and Theoretical Study. Waste Biomass Valor 12, 4123–4140 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-020-01248-2

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