Al-doped La_0.5Sr_0.5MnO₃ as oxide anode for solid oxide fuel cells using dry C₃H₈ fuel

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• 作者：Audi Majdan Kamarul Bahrain ; Shintaro Ida…
• 关键词：Oxide anode ; LaMnO3 ; Al ; doping effects
• 刊名：Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：21
• 期：1
• 页码：161-170
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Physical Chemistry; Electrochemistry; Energy Storage; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Analytical Chemistry; Condensed Matter Physics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1433-0768
• 卷排序：21

文摘

Direct hydrocarbon type solid oxide fuel cells are attractive from simple gas feed process and also high energy conversion efficiency. In this study, La_0.5Sr_0.5MnO₃ (LSM55) perovskite oxide was studied as oxide anode for direct hydrocarbon type solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). Although reasonable power density like 1 W/cm2 and open circuit voltage (OCV) (1.1 V) at 1273 K was exhibited when H₂ was used as fuel, the power density as well as OCV of the cell using LSM55 for anode was significantly decreased when dry C₃H₈ was used for fuel. After power generation measurement, LSM55 phase was decomposed to MnO and La₂MnO₄. Effects of various dopants to Mn site in LSM55 were studied and it was found that partial substitution of Mn in LSM55 with other cation, especially transition metal, is effective for increasing maximum power density. In particular, reasonable high power density can be achieved on the cell using Ni-doped LSM55 for anode. On the other hand, Al substitution is effective for increasing stability against reduction and so, dopant effects of Al were studied in more details for dry C₃H₈ fuel. The power density as well as OCV increased with increasing Al content and the highest power density was achieved at x = 0.4 in La_0.5Sr_0.5Mn_1 − xAl_xO₃. Among the examined composition, it was found that the cell using La_0.5Sr_0.5Mn_0.6Al_0.4O₃ anode shows the largest power density (0.2 W/cm2) at 1173 K and high OCV (1.01 V) against dry C₃H₈ fuel.