Glass-ceramic sealants for solid oxide cells

Title glass-ceramic sealants for solid oxide cells

Description: Sealants in solid oxide fuel cells technology are important to prevent any gas leakage through the cells and the interconnects, and to provide electrical insulation between the interconnects within a stack. Among the different classes of materials investigated during recent decades, glass-ceramics seem to be the most promising owing to their high chemical stability under the operating conditions. The sealing materials must show high gas tightness, thermo-chemical and thermomechanical compatibility with the coupled materials, as well as stability in the relevant operating conditions (750°-850°C), in both oxidising and reducing atmospheres) for thousands of hours.

Figure: SEM images of Crofer22APU/glass-ceramic sealant/Crofer22APU cross sections

keywords solid oxide cells, joining, glass-ceramics for energy

Contact(s): Federico Smeacetto federico.smeacetto@polito.it, Milena Salvo, Antonio G. Sabato, Hassan Javed

Recent reference(s)s:

-Sabato, A.G., Chrysanthou, A., Salvo, M., Cempura, G., Smeacetto, F. Interface stability between bare, Mn–Co spinel coated AISI 441 stainless steel and a diopside-based glass-ceramic sealant (2018) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 43 (3), pp. 1824-1834. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.11.150

- Javed H, Sabato AG, Herbrig K, Ferrero D, Walter C, Salvo M, Smeacetto F. Design and characterization of novel glass-ceramic sealants for solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) applications. Int J Appl Ceram Technol 2018; 15: 999–1010. doi:10.1111/ijac.12889.

Funding

Projects:

GrInHy- Green Industrial Hydrogen via reversible high-temperature electrolysis-H2020-JTI-FCH-2015-1; GA 700300

CoACH- Advanced glasses, Composites And Ceramics for High growth Industries ETN Marie Skłodowska-Curie GA 642557