Journal
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 151, Issue -, Pages 437-446Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.11.078
Keywords
Double-perovskites; Solid oxide electrolysis cell; Kinetic; Electric double layer
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Funding
- China Major Project of National Science and Technology [2010ZX06901-020]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51272127]
- Tsinghua University [20101081790, 6906331-1]
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Double-perovskite Sr2FeNbO6 (SFN) has been introduced to the solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) supported by 8 mol% yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte (500 mm thick) with the cell composition of SFN-YSZ/YSZ/LSM-YSZ (La0.8Sr0.2MnO3, LSM). Five groups of contrast tests are designed to investigate the differences between SFN and Ni in electrochemical behavior. The reaction mechanisms of the H2O reduction in Ni-YSZ and SFN-YSZ electrodes are discussed. The results show that the conductivity of SFN in H-2/H2O (80 vol% H2O) atmosphere (2.215 S cm(-1) at 850 degrees C) is much higher than that in air (0.049 S cm(-1) at 850 degrees C). The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurement results indicate that, compared with Ni-YSZ, SFN-YSZ is more suitable for high temperature steam electrolysis as the hydrogen electrode. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis suggests that the surface of SFN can also be one of the electrode reaction places besides the triple phase boundary (TPB), which greatly accelerates the reaction process, lowers the energy barrier of the charge transfer process and results in a better performance of SFN-YSZ than Ni-YSZ in the SOEC mode. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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