High temperature steam electrolysis (HTE) is an environmentally friendly process because of manufacturing the hydrogen using electricity obtained from nuclear power. And It is suitable method to produce the hydrogen to use a heat source by the tempera...
High temperature steam electrolysis (HTE) is an environmentally friendly process because of manufacturing the hydrogen using electricity obtained from nuclear power. And It is suitable method to produce the hydrogen to use a heat source by the temperature area of the high-speed or high-temperature furnace.
There are two of HTE, ceramic membrane and SOEC(Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell).
HTE using the ceramic membrane can overcome the thermodynamic limit. and produce the hydrogen at low temperature (800-1000 ℃). Because, if oxygen or hydrogen decomposed from water vapor is selectively removed, it will be possible for the equilibrium of the above reaction to shift towards water decomposition.
HTE using SOEC has a high efficiency since a portion of the electricity required for electrolysis can be replaced by thermal energy such as waste heat. Materials used for SOEC are stabilized zirconia, perovskite type oxides and mixture of ceramic and metallic nickel as electrolyte, anode and cathode, respectively.
If the electricity is applied to the SOEC unit cell, high-temperature water vapor is decomposed, leading to generation of hydrogen gas at the cathode side. Oxygen ions passed through the electrolyte generate the oxygen gas at the anode side.
In this study, commercial La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3-δ (LSCF) and synthetic La0.6Sr0.4Ti0.2Fe0.8O3-δ (LSTF), Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-δ (BSCF) Disc-type ceramic membrane) materials having Mixed ionic electronic conductivity (MIEC) and high oxygen permeability were prepared and evaluated electrochemical properties to apply the HTE system by the above two ways. Also, I manufactured the microtubular ceramic membranes and the SOEC (NiO-YSZ / YSZ / LSM) to increase the density due to the miniaturization and easy to seal between gas of both areas. And evaluated the sintering behavior, microstructure, and electrochemical properties.