INVESTIGATION OF A Pt CONTAINING WASHCOAT ON SIC FOAM FOR HYDROGEN COMBUSTION APPLICATIONS A. Fernández 1,2* ,G.M. Arzac 1 , U.F.Vogt 2,3 , F.Hosoglu 2 , A.Borgschulte 2 , M.C. Jimenez 1 , O. Montes 1 , A. Züttel 2,4 1 Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla (CSIC-Univ. Sevilla), Avda. Américo Vespucio 49, 41092-Sevilla, Spain. 2 EMPA, Dept. Energy, Environment & Mobility, Section Hydrogen & Energy, Dübendorf, Switzerland. 3 Department Crystallography, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Albert- Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany. 4 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland *Corresponding author: asuncion@icmse.csic.es Abstract A commercial Pt based washcoat, used for catalytic methane combustion, was studied supported on a commercial SiC foam as catalytic material (Pt/SiC) for catalytic hydrogen combustion (CHC). Structural and chemical characterization was performed using Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS). The reaction was monitored following water concentration by Fourier Transform Infrared spectra (FTIR). The FTIR method was compared with H 2 detection by Gas Cromatography (GC) and has shown to be adequate to study the kinetics of the CHC reaction in steady state under our experimental conditions (very *Revised Manuscript Click here to view linked References