%0 Journal Article
%T Separation of Charging and Charge Transition Currents with Inductive Voltage Pulses
%A M. Vanags
%A J. Kleperis
%A G. Bajars
%J Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences
%D 2011
%I Versita
%R 10.2478/v10047-011-0020-y
%X Inductive voltage pulses are generated in the electric circuit consisting of a DC power source, a pulse generator, a BUZ350 field transistor, a blocking diode, and a bifilarly wound transformer. Very short inductive voltage pulses arising at disruption of current in the primary circuit (>1 ¦Ěs) are applied to a water electrolysis cell, which causes its quick charging followed by a relatively slower discharge tail. To take voltage and current pulses from the cell consisting of steel electrodes and water-KOH solution, an oscilloscope is employed. By changing the concentration of electrolyte and the distance between electrodes it is found that applying inductive voltage pulses to such a cell it is possible to separate the double-layer charging currents from the charge transition (Faradic) current.
%K water electrolysis cell
%K hydrogen evolution reaction
%K inductive reverse voltage pulse
%K high voltage pulse electrolysis
%U http://versita.metapress.com/content/d6726g03771772r2/?p=b2919887c7d942849a5eabe956b92683&pi=3