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Oxygen Reduction Reaction Kinetics of PrBaCo2O5+  As SOFC Cathode

Wednesday, 1 June 2016: 08:00
Indigo Ballroom C (Hilton San Diego Bayfront)
N. Zhang (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department, WVU), W. Li, and X. Liu (West Virginia University)
PrBaCo2O5+ δ double-perovskite has been identified as promising cathode for intermediate temperature SOFC. Research has shown that oxygen diffusivity and surface defects sites that promote the surface reactivity can be greatly enhanced due to the ordered structure and non-stoichiometry of such material.  However, there have been very few detailed investigations on the ORR mechanisms and kinetics of PrBaCo2O5+ δ, including identifying the rate-limiting steps. In this work, oxygen reduction reaction mechanisms of PrBaCo2O5+ δ cathode were studied. The ORR kinetics was evaluated through EIS toward the PrBaCo2O5+ δ /GDC/ PrBaCo2O5+ δ symmetric cell configuration. The complex nonlinear least square (CNLS) fitting results shows that oxygen reduction on porous PrBaCo2O5+ δ electrode is limited by surface chemical exchange and solid state diffusion not the traditionally TPB charge transfer process under the limit of semi-infinite electrode. According to the reaction order under different temperature and Po2, oxygen surface incorporation is supposed to be the main rate-limiting step for the overall reaction rate with the certain microstructure.