Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Exhibit Hall H (San Diego Convention Center)
Liquid Sb has been accepted for direct carbon solid oxide fuel cell anode material for its unique physical and chemical properties. Sb and Sb2O3 have a relatively low melting point of 630 and 636 °C respectively and the electrochemical formed Sb2O3 would drift away from the Sb/electrolyte interface because of density difference. So the density difference and viscosity of the liquid phases have influence on the two phase convection and the average thickness of insulator Sb2O3 layer. Sb1-x-Agx (x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3) alloy has a lower melting point and higher density than pure Sb. Since Ag2O would not exist stably at temperature higher than 300 °C, Ag atoms in the Sb1-xAgx anode will not participate to the electrochemical reaction with O2- at intermediate temperature. A tubular 8 mol.% Y2O3 stabilized ZrO2 (YSZ) supported SOFC with La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3-Gd0.1Ce0.9O2-δ (LSCF-10GDC) as the cathode and Sb1-x-Agx as anode was fabricated by slurry-casting, slurry-dipping and sintering processes. The primary I-V/I-P performance of the Sb1-x-Agx abode cells was much lower than the Sb anode cell. Alloying Ag seemed to have a negative influence on the electrochemical reaction between Sb and O2-, which might due to Ag atoms taking partial Sb atoms positions. Working at a current density from 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 to 0.5 A cm-2 at 750 °C, the final I-V/I-P performance of the alloy anodes cells was just a little lower than the Sb anode cell. The EDX analysis and SEM pictures of the tested cells revealed that elements re-distribution happened in the anode. The primary uniform distributed Sb1-x-Agx alloy appeared to be a layered structure and the Ag content in the button layer was higher than that in the upper layer.