Electrochemical Micro-Reactor for the Determination of Intermediate Products in Fuel Cell Reactions

In this document, a newly designed electrochemical plug flow reactor system is presented. For a first preliminary test, ethanol in sulfuric acid was oxidized at a platinized titanium mesh electrode as working electrode of the reactor. Qualitative concentration behaviors were measured with mass spectrometric methods. A first result is that the reactor, in this configuration, seems to work properly.