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Carbon Based Materials for Electrochemical and Chemical Energy Conversion and Storage Wei Wang Carbon based materials for electrochemical and chemical energy conversion and storage Wei Wang To cite this version: Wei Wang. Carbon based materials for electrochemical and chemical energy conversion and storage. Catalysis. Université de Strasbourg, 2019. English. NNT : 2019STRAF059. tel-03191849 HAL Id: tel-03191849 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03191849 Submitted on 7 Apr 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG ÉCOLE DOCTORALE DES SCIENCES CHIMIQUES (ED 222) ICPEES, UMR 7515 CNRS THÈSE présentée par : Wei WANG soutenue le : 06 décembre 2019 pour obtenir le grade de : Docteur de l’université de Strasbourg Discipline/ Spécialité : Chimie/Chimie Matériaux à base de carbone pour la conversion et le stockage d'énergie électrochimique et chimique Carbon based Materials for Electrochemical and Chemical Energy Conversion and Storage THÈSE dirigée par : M. PHAM-HUU Cuong Directeur de Recherche, Université de Strasbourg RAPPORTEURS : M. de JONG Krijn P. Professeur, Universiteit Utrecht M. KHODAKOV Andrei Directeur de Recherche, Université de Lille 1 EXAMINATEUR : M. LOUIS Benoît Directeur de Recherche, Université de Strasbourg MEMBRE INVITE : M. GIAMBASTIANI Giuliano Directeur de Recherche, Italian National Research Council Acknowledgement My PhD thesis has been performed at the Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES, UMR 7515) of the CNRS, University of Strasbourg. Looking back on my entire PhD study, many people have been involved in encouraging and guiding me during such a period. Without their kind help, I would never have made this exciting experience. I would like to take this opportunity to give my heartfelt thanks to all of them. I would like also to express my great thanks to the China Scholarship Council for the financial funding during my stay in ICPEES. First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Cuong Pham-Huu for providing me the chance to study in his laboratory. Thanks for his guidance, patience, and support during my whole PhD research. As the advisor, he is always ready to help me and guide me in the right scientific direction. He always encourages and inspires me to think and solve problems independently on different research projects. Without his selfless help and strong support in both research and daily life, I could not smoothly complete my research in a correct and scientifically pertinent manner. I largely took advantage from his experience throughout the work and learned how to be a humorous and high productive researcher, which will inevitably benefit the rest of my life. I would like to express him with my gratefulness and thankfulness for supporting me on this special day. I would like also express my gratefulness to Dr. Giuliano Giambastiani from both Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) and Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES, UMR 7515) for his valuable guidance and encouragement during my PhD study and also for his great help during the thesis writing. I also want to express my warmest welcome and deepest gratitude to Prof. Krijn Pieter de Jong from Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science (DINS) at Utrecht University and Dr. Andrei Khodakov from the Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide (UMR 8181) at University of Lille-1 for accepting to act as advisory committee members of my thesis. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Benoît I Louis from Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES, UMR 7515) at the University of Strasbourg for accepting to be one jury member for my PhD defense without any hesitation. Special thanks are due to Dr. Housseinou Ba, Dr. Cuong Duong-Viet, Dr. Sergey Pronkin for their guidance and assistance in my research and also to Dr. Jean-Mario Nhut and Fabrice Vigneron for their support in the design and installation of the reaction systems. I learned how to be a focused, efficient researcher, and how to design and implement programs properly from them. Many thanks to all of them for their advice, and encouragement in both research and daily life, which make me feel confident to fulfill my PhD research. It is not sufficient to express my gratitude with these words. I would like to thank Prof. Ovidiu Ersen, Dr. Walid Baaziz in the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS, UMR 7504) at the University of Strasbourg and Dr. Yuefeng Liu in the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences for their help in TEM analysis. I also express my gratitude to all the administrative staffs: Véronique Verkruysse, Agnès Orb, Catherine Kientz, Silviya Markova, Michèle Thomas and technical referees: Dr. Dominique Begin, Dr. Ksenia Parkhomenko, Thierry Romero, Sécou Sall, Dr. Thierry Dintzer, Alain Rach, Christophe Mélart, and Christophe Sutter at ICPEES for their valuable guidance and unwavering support. I am also indebted to Anurag Mohanty, Dr. Zhenxin Xu, Dr. Ahmed Essyed, Dr. Lai Truong-Phuoc, Dr. Franck Ulm, Hamza El Marouazi, Ahmed Ait Khouya for their kind help, advice, encouragement and discussions in accomplishing this work. And also, I would like to thank all my friends in ICPEES and other friends in Strasbourg that I cannot list all here for the precious friendship and spiritual support. Finally, I really appreciate the sacrifices that my family made for my study abroad. Thanks for their silent pay and support throughout these years. I would like also to express the profound gratitude to my beloved girlfriend for her selfless support on my research during these years. I also extend great thanks to all the relatives of my family for their help and support to my family and to my study. II Content Résumé ............................................................................................................................................. 1 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Stockage électrochimique ........................................................................................... 2 1.2 Stockage chimique: procédé de Power-to-Gas ............................................................ 3 2. Résultats et discussions ....................................................................................................... 6 2.1 Matériaux à base de carbone pour le stockage d'énergie électrochimique supercondensateur ............................................................................................................. 6 2.2 Catalyseur à base de nickel pour la conversion et le stockage d'énergie chimique ..... 9 3. Conclusions et perspectives .............................................................................................. 13 3.1 Conclusion générale .................................................................................................. 13 3.2 Perspectives ............................................................................................................... 15 Reference ................................................................................................................................ 16 Chapter 1 Introduction about electrochemical and chemical energy conversion and storage 1.1 Electrochemical energy storage ..................................................................................... 21 1.1.1 Energy storage mechanism in supercapacitors ....................................................... 22 1.1.2 Models development for electrical double layer interface ..................................... 28 1.1.3 Capacitance, Energy and Power of supercapacitors ............................................... 31 1.1.4 Activated carbon electrode material for supercapacitor ......................................... 33 1.2 Chemical energy conversion and storage ...................................................................... 39 1.2.1 Power-to-Gas .......................................................................................................... 40 1.2.2 CO2 methanation .................................................................................................... 42 1.2.3 Metal-based heterogeneous catalysts ..................................................................... 43 1.3 Induction heating for heat management in catalytic processes ................................... 56 1.3.1 Brief description of induction heating theory......................................................... 58 1.3.2 Inductive Heating for gas-phase catalytic synthesis processes .............................. 59 1.3.3 Inductive heating for liquid-phase catalytic synthesis processes ........................... 69 1.4 Scope and outline of this thesis ...................................................................................... 73 Reference ...............................................................................................................................
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