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Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Materials: Durability, Reliability, and Cost

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Acceleration method:

Generally speaking, there is no appropriate acceleration method for stack performance degradation as a whole. Therefore, individual factors should be carefully accelerated to know the degradation phenomena. One degradation phenomena should consist of several processes having different activation processes. It is highly required to have an acceleration method which should not create additional sources of different origin and mask the original sources of degradation to be investigated.

Cr poisoning:

Catastrophic degradation of lanthanum manganite–based cathode due to the chromium– oxygen vapors emitted from Cr2O3 oxide scale as a result of reaction with (humidified) air. Cr poisoning for other cathodes such as cobaltite or ferrites are completely different in mechanism. The SrCrO4 formation is a key phenomena causing the lowering in cathode performance.

EVD cells:

Sealless tubular cells fabricated by the electrochemical vapor deposition (EVD) technique. The...

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Yokokawa, H., Horita, T. (2012). Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Materials: Durability, Reliability, and Cost. In: Lipman, T., Weber, A. (eds) Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Production. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7789-5_136

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