Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 196, Issue 22, Pages 9429-9436Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2011.06.087
Keywords
Percolation theory; SOFC; Pore formers; Polydisperse powders; Three-phase boundary length; Effective properties
Funding
- National Research Council - Institute of Energetics and Interphases
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A percolation model, accounting for polydispersion of powders and presence of pore formers (i.e. porosity), is presented to predict effective properties of composite electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells, such as the three-phase boundary length and the mean hydraulic radius. Porosity affects both numbers of contacts (so probabilities of connection) and number of particles per unit volume. Both these effects, together with granulometric distribution, are accounted for the estimation of effective properties. As a consequence, the theory can predict numbers of contacts, coordination numbers and therefore effective properties of the electrode for multicomponent polydisperse mixtures. Model simulations show that the three-phase boundary length sharply decreases as porosity increases while the effects of polydispersion of powders are less pronounced, although significant, suggesting that these features should be considered in SOFC electrode models. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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