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Electrochemical Performance of Carbon Anodes Made of Bio-pitch as a Binder

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Bio-pitch is considered as a promising candidate to replace fossil coal-tar-pitch used in carbon anodes. The electrochemical performance of the carbon anode is affected by the properties of its constituents and replacement of coal-tar-pitch with bio-pitch requires that the electrochemical performance is not significantly reduced. In this work the impact of the bio-pitch on the electrochemical behavior of carbon anodes was investigated using different electrochemical methods including, electrolysis under constant current, cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in a laboratory scale electrolysis cell. The electrochemical behavior of the bio-pitch anodes was compared to that of the reference anodes made of coal-tar-pitch. The bio-pitch anodes demonstrated slightly improved electrochemical performance, compared to the reference anodes. The reaction overpotential decreased while an increase in the double layer capacitance, which referrers to the interfacial contact between the anode and the molten electrolyte, was noticed upon using the bio-pitch as a binder. The finding of this work proved the potential of using the bio-pitch, as a binder, which can even be beneficial for the electrochemical performance of carbon anodes.

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Authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies, Alcoa Corporation and the Aluminum Research Centre – REGAL. The financial support of the Research Council of Norway through the Norwegian Canadian Partnership in Research and Education on Primary Production of Aluminum (CaNAl) is gratefully acknowledged. Authors would also like to thank Dr. Gøril Jahrsengene, Dr. Camilla Sommerseth, and Dr. Samuel Senanu at SINTEF for the useful discussion. The assistance of Dr. Jayson Tessier and Dr. Julien Lauzon-Gauthier from Alcoa’s Aluminum Centre of Excellence (Deschambault, Quebec, Canada) is greatly acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Laval University, 1065 Avenue de la Médecine, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada

    Asem Hussein & Houshang Alamdari

  2. Aluminum Research Centre - REGAL, Laval University, 1065 Avenue de la Médecine, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada

    Asem Hussein & Houshang Alamdari

  3. Department of Material Science and Engineering, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Zhaohui Wang & Tor Grande

  4. SINTEF Industry, 7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Zhaohui Wang & Arne Petter Ratvik

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Hussein, A., Wang, Z., Ratvik, A.P. et al. Electrochemical Performance of Carbon Anodes Made of Bio-pitch as a Binder. Metall Mater Trans B 53, 584–593 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-021-02397-y

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