Waste engine oil derived porous carbon/ZnS Nanocomposite as Bi-functional electrocatalyst for supercapacitor and oxygen reduction

•Waste engine oil from automobile industry is one of the diciest pollutants owing to its non-eco-friendly constituents.•We demonstrated a simple, one-step thermal conversion of waste engine oil into porous carbon/ZnS nanocomposite materials.•This material is used for supercapacitor and ORR applicati...

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Published in:Journal of energy storage 2020-12, Vol.32, p.101774, Article 101774
Main Authors: Kaipannan, Subramani, Ganesh, P. Anandha, Manickavasakam, Karnan, Sundaramoorthy, Santhoshkumar, Govindarajan, Kaviarasan, Mayavan, Sundar, Marappan, Sathish
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Language:English
Subjects:
Activated carbon
Engine oil
Nanocomposite
ORR
Supercapacitor
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Summary:•Waste engine oil from automobile industry is one of the diciest pollutants owing to its non-eco-friendly constituents.•We demonstrated a simple, one-step thermal conversion of waste engine oil into porous carbon/ZnS nanocomposite materials.•This material is used for supercapacitor and ORR applications.•The fabricated symmetric supercapacitor cell delivered a high specific energy of 13.8 Wh/kg and specific power of 4500 W/kg with an excellent life cycle (95%) for 10,000 charge-discharge cycles. Herein, we report the effective conversion of waste automobile engine oil into porous activated carbon/ZnS nanocomposite. Initially, the waste engine oil was thermally decomposed under an argon atmosphere at 700 °C and followed by acid treatment with a 10% piranha solution to form activated carbon/ZnS (ACZS) nanocomposites. The ACZS was used as electrode active material for symmetric supercapacitor and electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) studies. It is interesting to note that, the ACZS electrode performed well for supercapacitor delivered a high specific capacitance of 241 F/g at 1 A/g current density. The symmetric supercapacitor cell fabricated using ACZS electrodes delivered a high specific energy and specific power of 13.8 Wh/kg and 4500 W/kg with an exceptional electrochemical stability of 95% for 10,000 cycles, respectively. The electrochemical RRDE studies shows higher ORR current density of ACZS electro-catalyst (4.46 mA/cm2) than that for the HiSPEC Pt/C catalyst (3.91 mA/cm2). [Display omitted]
ISSN:2352-152X
2352-1538
DOI:10.1016/j.est.2020.101774