CL-611 Electrochemical reaction engineering

Practice Problems-1 (AS part)

Due date: 21st Oct 2014
Reading assignment: (Bard, A. J.; Faulkner, L. R. Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and
Applications; 2nd ed.; Wiley: New York, 2000.)
Read section 5.1, 5.2, 5.4.1, 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.5.1, 5.5.4, 5.8
Problems:
1. Show that the current response for a spherical electrode is given by

2. Find the Laplace transform of

3. Find the Laplace transform of
4. Plotting exercise (you can use Matlab, Gnuplot etc. and submit a printout)
a. Plot
(See Figure 5.2.2 of AJB & LF)
b. Generate the
various

, assuming

plot from sampled chronoamperometry experiments for

,

, and
(see Figure 5.5.3 of AJB & LF)
c. Plot the chronoamperometry profiles (
)for a system obeying Nernstian kinetics
and for
for a system having only O initially having
concentration of
. Take the area of the electrode to be 1 cm2
and use the values of
etc. given in the earlier problem. Take
.