Carbon monoxide dual sites

Carbon Monoxide The presence of CO in a H2-rich fuel has a significant effect on anode performance because CO affects Pt electrodes catalysts. The poisoning is reported to arise from the dual site replacement of one H2 molecule by two CO molecules on the R surface (40, 41). According to this model, the anodic oxidation current at a fixed overpotential, with (ico) and without (in2) CO present, is given as a function of CO coverage (0co) by Equation (5-11) ... 

Carbon monoxide is produced from fuel processing of hydrocarbons, e.g. reforming, and is strongly adsorbed as a surface metal carbonyl, inhibiting the dual-site hydrogen molecule dissociation step. 

The basic problem can be stated as follows minimize an objective function fjx), where x is a vector variable comprising the parameters to be estimated, andXx) is the sum of squares to be minimized. For instance, in the oxidation of carbon monoxide, already mentioned in Chapter 4 and discussed in more detail in Chapter 11 (and in [Asprey, 1997]), the following Langmuir-Hinshelwood Dual Site Dissociative Adsorption Model is used to fit experimental data ... 

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