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SCH 401 Sem 1 2022 2023 Course Outline

The document provides a course outline for an electrochemistry course, outlining the course purpose, objectives, content, teaching methods, and assessment, with the objectives including explaining electrochemical reactions and cells, describing electrode types, calculating transference numbers, and discussing electrochemical cells applications in energy production and material synthesis. The content will cover topics like electrolytes, electrochemical reactions, different types of electrochemical cells and their applications, corrosion and protection, and experimental work emphasizing conductivity calculations and transference numbers.

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SCH 401 Sem 1 2022 2023 Course Outline

The document provides a course outline for an electrochemistry course, outlining the course purpose, objectives, content, teaching methods, and assessment, with the objectives including explaining electrochemical reactions and cells, describing electrode types, calculating transference numbers, and discussing electrochemical cells applications in energy production and material synthesis. The content will cover topics like electrolytes, electrochemical reactions, different types of electrochemical cells and their applications, corrosion and protection, and experimental work emphasizing conductivity calculations and transference numbers.

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KENYATTA UNIVERSITY Ref.: KU/ACAD/SOP/8.

5-3

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Ver.: 1.0

Title Course Outline Date: 26/09/2022

SEMESTER: semester 1, 2022-2023


UNIT CODE &TITLE: SCH 401: ELECTROCHEMISTRY
PRE-REQUISITE; SCH 101

COURSE PURPOSE
To introduce students to fundamentals of electrochemical processes and their applications.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
 Explain the theory of electrochemical reactions and electrochemical cells
 Describe the working of different types of electrodes
 Calculate transference numbers for a given ion
 Discuss the electrochemical cells as energy producers
 Describe the various applications of electrochemical cells as material producers

COURSE CONTENT
Electrolytes.
Electrochemical reactions, electrons and mass transfer interplay of both;
Faradaic and Non-Faradaic processes, electrolysis, electrochemical cell as a material producer
for example copper, sodium hydroxide; electrocatalysis, electroplating, electrowinning,
electrosynthesis of copper (I) oxide, organic electrosynthesis (hydrodiminerisation of acrylonitrile
to adiponitrile);
corrosion and its protection. Electrochemical cells as energy producers: Battery characteristics,
voltage, current, capacity, evaluation of battery performance: Present battery systems; fuel cells
like phosphoric acid, alkaline, molten carbonate, the solid electrolyte. Electrochemical
equilibrium and the Nernst equation, reversibility and solubility products, half cells, liquid
junctions and concentration cells, polarization and polarizability of an electrode, conductivity of
electrolyte solutions, superconductivity, transference number, Reference electrodes, ion
selective electrodes, glass, solid state membranes, heterogeneous membranes: Polarography
and anodic stripping voltammetry, portable and on line devices, electrochemical biosensors
(dissolved oxygen sensors).

Experimental Work:
Practical experiment will emphasize on the conductivity of electrolyte solutions, calculation of
transference numbers e.t.c.

Teaching organization
Lectures: 3 hours per week

Teaching/Learning Methodologies
Lectures; Class discussion; Class exercise; Research assignments, Laboratory experiments,
PowerPoint presentations

Instructional Materials and Equipment: Projector, Computer, Chalk board, Laboratory


equipment’s.

Course Assessment
Continuous Assessments (Exercises, Tests and presentations) - 30%; Examination - 70%;
Total - 100%

Recommended Text Books


1. Khandpur, R. S. (2011). Handbook of Analytical Instrumentation; McGraw–Hill
Handbooks. ISBN: 9780071487467
2. Skoog D. A., Holler F. J., Nieman, T. A. (1998) Principles of Instrumental Analysis. 5th
ed. Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning. ISBN: 0-03-002078-6
3. Atkins, P. and Julio de P.( 2002), Physical Chemistry (7th Ed.)W. H. Freeman
4. Bard, Allen J. and Larry R. F. (2001), Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and
Applications (2nd Ed.) JohnWiley.
5. Girault, Hubert H. (2004), Analytical and Physical Electrochemistry (1st Ed.)
Dekker/CRC Press.

Textbooks for Further Reading


1. Hobert H. Wichard. Instrumental Methods of Analysis; John Wiley & Sons
2. Pletcher Industrial Electrochemistry
3. Gillian McMahon (2008). Analytical instrumentation: A Guide to Laboratory, Portable and
Miniaturized Instruments. John Wiley and Sons Inc; ISBN: 0470027959
4. Journal of Chemical Education 2002 79 1207

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