Preparation method for alkaline anion exchange membrane and use thereof in fuel cell

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10797333-B2
Application number	US-201616066052-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2016
Priority date	Nov 26, 2015
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

The present invention discloses a preparation method of an alkaline anion exchange membrane and a use of the membrane in a fuel cell. The preparation method of the alkaline anion exchange membrane contains: taking polyvinyl alcohol as a substrate, which provides mechanical strength for the membrane; taking a commercialized alkaline resin as an anion exchange resin of chemically reactive groups, performing a cross-linking reaction between polyvinyl alcohol and the alkaline resin by mixing; meanwhile, during the process of forming the alkaline anion exchange membrane, adding an organic salt of transition metal, and doping transition metal ions into the membrane. By taking advantages of catalytic characteristics of the transition metal ions, the fuel leaking from the anode of the cell can perform a catalytic reaction in time in the ion exchange membrane, and thereby improve an ion conductivity of the membrane and efficiently decrease a resistance of the cell. The fuel cell assembled by the anion exchange membrane prepared in the present invention shows an excellent power-generating property.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A preparation method of an alkaline anion exchange membrane, containing the steps below:
1) adding a transition metal inorganic salt into deionized water, stirring, to obtain an aqueous solution of transition metal inorganic salt;
2) dissolving a polyvinyl alcohol powder into the aqueous solution of transition metal inorganic salt which is obtained in the step 1), heating and stirring, to obtain a first gel;
3) grinding an AER alkaline resin into fine powders, adding the fine powders into the first gel, after a cross-linking reaction between fine powders and the first gel, forming a second gel;
4) film-forming the second gel on a substrate, drying; and
5) alkalization pretreating the dried film.

2. The preparation method of the alkaline anion exchange membrane according to claim 1 , wherein the transition metal inorganic salt is selected from a group consisting an inorganic salt of transition metal Co, an inorganic salt of transition metal Fe and an inorganic salt of transition metal of transition metal Ni.

3. The preparation method of the alkaline anion exchange membrane according to claim 2 , wherein the transition metal inorganic salt is a divalent cobalt salt.

4. The preparation method of the alkaline anion exchange membrane according to claim 3 , wherein the divalent cobalt salt is cobalt dioxide or CoSO 4 .

5. The preparation method of the alkaline anion exchange membrane according to claim 1 , wherein the addition amount of the transition metal inorganic salt is determined in step 1) according to the content of transition metal ions, and the content of the transition metal ions is 0.1%-1%; the content of the transition metal ions is a mass percentage of the transition metal ions to polyvinyl alcohol.

6. The preparation method of the alkaline anion exchange membrane according to claim 1 , wherein in step 2), a heating temperature is controlled to be between 80 and 95 degrees centigrade, and a solution is stirred for 2.5-3 h.

7. The preparation method of the alkaline anion exchange membrane according to claim 1 , wherein a mass ratio of the AER alkaline resin added in step 3) to the polyvinyl alcohol powders added in step 2) is 1:2.

8. The preparation method of the alkaline anion exchange membrane according to claim 1 , wherein the alkalization pretreatment contains immersing the film formed in step 4) into a solution of 1M KOH for 12-24 h, taking the film out and repeatedly washing the film by using deionized water.

Assignees

• Univ Hangzhou Dianzi

Inventors

• Qin Haiying
• Zhu Cai
• Hu Yongping
• Chen Kaijian
• Liu Jiabin
• Kong Zhe
• Wang Hongbo
• He Yan
• Ji Zhenguo

Classifications

• H01M4/86

  Inert electrodes with catalytic activity, e.g. for fuel cells · CPC title

• H01M4/8652

  as mixture · CPC title

• Y02E60/50

  Fuel cells · CPC title

• Y02P70/50

  Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product · CPC title

• H01M4/9016

  Oxides, hydroxides or oxygenated metallic salts · CPC title