摘要:
A rechargeable, high temperature, electrochemical cell is made, comprising an anode containing an intermetallic compound of magnesium with silicon or magnesium with boron, a cathode containing a metal sulfide and a contacting, fused halide salt electrolyte, containing magnesium ions disposed between the anode and cathode.
摘要:
The electrochemical formation of oxygen ion conducting solid oxide layers is achieved by the cathodic deposition of the oxide layers from a melted salt bath of alkali element halides containing dissolved metal halides which provide the metal cations from which oxide layers are formed and attached to conductive cathodes. Oxygen is supplied at the cathodes to form oxygen ions which diffuse through the cathodically formed oxide layers and react with dissolved metal cations leading to oxide layer growth. The dissolved metal halides are regenerated at the anodes from metals and metal compounds. The process is called cathodic oxide deposition (COD) and represents a new and economic method for the fabrication of oxygen ion conductor layers for solid oxide electrochemical devices.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for storing electrical energy as chemical energy and recovering electrical energy from stored chemical energy. A solid oxide electrolyte electrochemical cell is operated in two modes. The first, energy storage, mode comprises steps of: (A) supplying electrical energy and steam to a solid oxide electrolyte electrochemical cell operating between 600.degree. C. and 1200.degree. C. as an electrolysis cell, to produce H.sub.2 and O.sub.2 ; (B) passing the H.sub.2 gas so produced into an energy storage reactor containing iron oxide, to produce iron metal and steam; (C) recirculating the steam produced in the energy storage reactor to the cathode of the electrolysis cell; and (D) repeating steps (A) to (C) until the iron oxide is converted to iron metal, for chemical storage of electrical energy. The second, energy recovery, mode comprises steps of: (E) supplying steam to the energy storage reactor containing iron metal, to produce iron oxides and H.sub.2 gas; (F) passing this H.sub.2 gas to the fuel anode of an electrochemical cell operating as a fuel cell, and supplying O.sub.2 gas to the air cathode of the electrochemical cell, to produce electrical energy and steam at the fuel anode; (G) recirculating the steam so produced to the energy storage reactor bed; (H) repeating steps (E) to (G) until the iron metal is converted to iron oxide and H.sub.2 gas; and (I) recovering the electrical energy produced.
摘要:
An electrochemical apparatus is made containing an exterior electrode bonded to the exterior of a tubular, solid, oxygen ion conducting electrolyte where the electrolyte is also in contact with an interior electrode, said exterior electrode comprising particles of an electronic conductor contacting the electrolyte, where a ceramic metal oxide coating partially surrounds the particles and is bonded to the electrolyte, and where a coating of an ionic-electronic conductive material is attached to the ceramic metal oxide coating and to the exposed portions of the particles.
摘要:
Disclosed is an apparatus for forming a chemically vapor deposited coating on a porous substrate where oxygen from a first gaseous reactant containing a source of oxygen permeates through the pores of the substrate to react with a second gaseous reactant that is present on the other side of the substrate. The apparatus includes means for controlling the pressure and flow rate of each gaseous reactant, a manometer for measuring the difference in pressure between the gaseous reactants on each side of the substrate, and means for changing the difference in pressure between the gaseous reactants. Also disclosed is a method of detecting and closing cracks in the coating by reducing the pressure difference between the two gaseous reactants whenever the pressure difference falls suddenly after gradually rising, then again increasing the pressure difference on the two gases. The attack by the by-products of the reaction on the substrate are reduced by maintaining the flow rate of the first reactant through the pores of the substrate.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method of coating an electrode on a solid oxygen conductive oxide layer. A coating of particles of an electronic conductor is formed on one surface of the oxide layer and a source of oxygen is applied to the opposite surface of the oxide layer. A metal halide vapor is applied over the electronic conductor and the oxide layer is heated to a temperature sufficient to induce oxygen to diffuse through the oxide layer and react with the metal halide vapor. This results in the growing of a metal oxide coating on the particles of electronic conductor, thereby binding them to the oxide layer.
摘要:
A thin film solid electrolyte cell structure for use as an oxygen sensor, a combustibles sensor and a gross-oxygen-gross-combustibles sensor. An electrode is sealed to a porous mechanical support member by a thin film solid electrolyte which also seals the support member. The sealed support member divides a sensor apparatus into two zones, one of which contains a reference gas, the other of which contains the gas to be measured.
摘要:
A molten carbonate electrochemical cell operating at a temperature between 400.degree. and 700.degree. C. is used to remove O.sub.2 in combination with CO.sub.2 from an oxygen/combustibles gas mixture to provide a low temperature measurement of the oxygen content of the gas mixture.
摘要:
A fuel cell generator contains a plurality of fuel cells (6) in a generator chamber (1) and also contains a fuel reactor chamber (2) containing either fuel cells or electrolysis cells as the depleted fuel reactor means, which means preferably has copper fuel electrodes, where oxidant (24,25) and fuel (81) are fed to the generator chamber (1), where both fuel and oxidant react, and where all oxidant and fuel passages are separate and do not communicate with each other, so that fuel and oxidant in whatever form do not mix and where a depleted fuel exit (23) is provided for exiting a product gas which consists essentially of carbon dioxide and water for further treatment so that carbon dioxide can be separated and is not vented to the atmosphere.
摘要:
An apparatus for and a method of continuously supplying a conditioned fuel, such as CO and H.sub.2, to an electrochemical generator such as a high temperature solid oxide electrolyte, fuel cell generator (SOFC), for electrochemical reactions and continually regenerating a hydrocarbon reformation catalyst by providing at least two iron metal/iron oxide beds. At least one bed, a reformation bed, is mainly in the iron oxide (FeO) condition and incoming hydrocarbon feed fuel gas, such as natural gas, will be reformed or conditioned at a temperature of about 600.degree. C. to 800.degree. C. on the iron oxide to CO and H.sub.2 which represents the fuel to be fed to the fuel cells of the electrochemical generator, thereby reducing iron oxide to iron metal (Fe). While the FeO reformer bed is being reduced to Fe, the at least one other bed, an oxidation bed, which previously served as a reformer bed mainly in the iron metal condition (Fe) is oxidized at a temperature of about 600.degree. C. to 800.degree. C. to mainly FeO form with generator spent fuel gases, thereby oxidizing iron to iron oxide and also producing some additional conditioned fuel gas. The beds can be operated concurrently or sequentially, and when each bed becomes substantially exhausted, it is switched over in function to the other mode of operation.