CeO₂-Y₂O₃-ZrO₂ Membrane with Enhanced Molten Salt Corrosion Resistance for Solid Oxide Membrane (SOM) Electrolysis Process

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• 作者：Xingli Zou ; Xin Li ; Bin Shen ; Xionggang Lu…
• 刊名：Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：48
• 期：1
• 页码：678-691
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Metallic Materials; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Structural Materials; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Nanotechnology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1543-1916
• 卷排序：48

文摘

Innovative CeO₂-Y₂O₃-ZrO₂ membrane has been successfully developed and used in the solid oxide membrane (SOM) electrolysis process for green metallic materials production. The x mol pct ceria/(8–x) mol pct yttria-costabilized zirconia (xCe(8–x)YSZ, x = 0, 1, 4, or 7) membranes have been fabricated and investigated as the membrane-based inert anodes to control the SOM electroreduction process in molten salt. The characteristics of these fabricated xCe(8–x)YSZ membranes including their corrosion resistances in molten salt and their degradation mechanisms have been systematically investigated and compared. The results show that the addition of ceria in the YSZ-based membrane can inhibit the depletion of yttrium during the SOM electrolysis, which thus makes the ceria-reinforced YSZ-based membranes possess enhanced corrosion resistances to molten salt. The ceria/yttria-costabilized zirconia membranes can also provide reasonable oxygen ion conductivity during electrolysis. Further investigation shows that the newly modified 4Ce4YSZ ceramic membrane has the potential to be used as novel inert SOM anode for the facile and sustainable production of metals/alloys/composites materials such as Si, Ti₅Si₃, TiC, and Ti₅Si₃/TiC from their metal oxides precursors in molten CaCl₂.