Second Life Application of Automotive Catalysts: Hydrodynamic Cavitation Recovery and Photo Water Splitting
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental
2.1. Chemical Composition
2.2. Structural and Morphological Characterization
2.3. Hydrodynamic Cavitation Method
2.4. Electrochemical Measurements
3. Results and Discussions
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Sample Identification | Ti [g/kg] | W [g/kg] | V [g/kg] |
---|---|---|---|
initial catalyst | 2.1 | 1.4 | 3.2 |
first cavitation—C1 | 43.8 | 20.6 | 7.5 |
second cavitation—C2 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 1.7 |
third cavitation—C3 | 2.0 | 1.41 | 0.6 |
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Ciocanea, A.; Vasile, E.; Ionescu, V.; Maxim, F.I.; Diac, C.; Miron, C.; Stamatin, S.N. Second Life Application of Automotive Catalysts: Hydrodynamic Cavitation Recovery and Photo Water Splitting. Metals 2020, 10, 1307. https://doi.org/10.3390/met10101307
Ciocanea A, Vasile E, Ionescu V, Maxim FI, Diac C, Miron C, Stamatin SN. Second Life Application of Automotive Catalysts: Hydrodynamic Cavitation Recovery and Photo Water Splitting. Metals. 2020; 10(10):1307. https://doi.org/10.3390/met10101307
Chicago/Turabian StyleCiocanea, Adrian, Eugeniu Vasile, Viorel Ionescu, Florentina Iuliana Maxim, Cornelia Diac, Cristina Miron, and Serban N. Stamatin. 2020. "Second Life Application of Automotive Catalysts: Hydrodynamic Cavitation Recovery and Photo Water Splitting" Metals 10, no. 10: 1307. https://doi.org/10.3390/met10101307