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Standard enthalpy of reaction for the reduction of Co3O4 to CoO

Mayer, N. A., Cupid, D. M., Adam, R., Reif, A., Rafaja, D., Seifert, H. J.
Thermochim. Acta 2017, 652, 109-118
ABSTRACT
Two different high-temperature calorimetry methods were used to determine the enthalpy of reaction for the reduction of Co3O4 to CoO. This reaction is particularly interesting for assessing the thermodynamics of the first step of the electrochemical half-cell reaction for conversion anodes based on Co3O4 at very low discharge currents. The enthalpy of reaction for the reduction of Co3O4 to CoO was determined to be DrH.= 205.14 +- 2.48 kJ/mol and DrH.= 204.46 +- 3.17 kJ/mol from transposed temperature drop and high-temperature oxide melt drop solution calorimetry, respectively. Using this data, the enthalpy of reaction for the first step of the half-cell reaction for Co3O4 at very low discharge currents involving the formation of Li2O and CoO was calculated as DrH.= -393.60 +- 3.67 kJ/mol and DrH.= -394.28 +- 4.16 kJ/mol from the transposed temperature drop and the high-temperature oxide melt drop solution calorimetry, respectively.
Compounds
# Formula Name
1 CoO cobalt oxide
2 Co3O4 cobalt(II,III) oxide
3 O2 oxygen
Datasets
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above). POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied; the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.
Type Compound-# Property Variable Constraint Phase Method #Points
  • POMD
  • 2
  • Molar enthalpy, kJ/mol ; Crystal
  • Temperature, K; Crystal
  • Pressure, kPa; Crystal
  • Crystal
  • Drop calorimetry
  • 1
  • RXND
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Molar enthalpy of reaction, kJ/mol
  • Drop calorimetry
  • 1
  • RXND
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Molar enthalpy of reaction, kJ/mol
  • Solution calorimetry
  • 1