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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 37, Issue 11, Pages 9351-9358Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.02.194
Keywords
Compliant seal; Viscosity; Chemical reaction; Devitrification; pSOFC; pSOEC
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- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
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Sealing is an ongoing concern for the development of pSOFC and pSOEC systems, mainly because gas tightness largely drives performance and is a critical key to develop these technologies. The main difficulties are due to the fact that gas tightness must be achieved at high temperature (approximate to 800 degrees C) between metal/metal components, brittle ceramic/ceramic materials or combination of both. To tackle this question, we report on compliant glassy seals, which represent an interesting alternative to rigid seals. Indeed, their thermal properties, especially a suitable thermoplasticity, enable to prevent damages that occur during thermal cycling due to an intrinsic self-healing effect. In this context, a series of compliant sealing glasses based on K2O-Na2O-La2O3-B2O3-ZrO2-SiO2 system has been developed. These glasses have suitable viscosities around bonding (10(7.6) dPa . s at 900 degrees C) and operating temperature (10(6) dPa . s at 800 degrees C). They show also high resistance to crystallization and low interactions with the other cell components in spite of the low thermal characteristics. However, the viscosity has a great influence on the glass stability. This correlation has been investigated to get interesting compromise. Copyright (C) 2012, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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