Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an interconnector or an end plate for fuel cell stack, which can be manufactured by compression molding and sintering inexpensively, and which has high density and optimal homogeneity. SOLUTION: A shaped part consists of a disk-shaped or plate-shaped basic body (1) having a multiplicity of knob-like and/or ridge-like elevations (2) with a height h, and the cross-section thereof has two inclined side flanks, each of which leads, proceeding from an end contour (3) of the elevation (2), via a rounded corner portion (4) with a radius r directly or via an intermediate rectilinear portion (5) into a curved portion (6) having a radius R, the curved portion (6) merging into the surface contour (7) of the basic body (1). When the transition is started from the rectilinear portion or the rounded corner portion immediately to the curved portion, a tangent at the transition point forms an inclined angle α in a range of 95° to 135° against the surface contour, the radius R is in the range of 0.15 to 1 mm, and the height h is dimensioned so that the ratio of R:h is in a range of 0.25 to 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inter-connector which has a thermal expansion coefficient agreeing with its ceramic structural component, high dimensional stability, high anti-etching properties relative to both of a reduced medium and an oxide medium, high electrical conductivities obtained in contacting surface regions to an anode and a cathode, and a high unpenetrating property relative to gases, and is manufactured at a low cost, and to provide a method for manufacturing the inter-connector, and further, to provide a high-temperature solid electrolyte fuel cell having the inter-connector. SOLUTION: The inter-connector for high-temperature solid electrolyte fuel cells includes sintered holes, and is constituted of Cr of not lower than 90 wt.%, and of Fe of 3-8 wt.%, and further, optionally of a sintered chrome alloy of 0.001-2 wt.% which contains one or more elements selected from the rare earth metal group. The sintered chrome alloy contains 0.1-2 wt.% of Al, and the sintered holes are filled with an oxide compound containing Al and Cr, at least partially. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
The invention relates to a powdered metal component having a chromium content of at least 80 % by weight. Pores and/or oxide inclusions are provided in the components and the number per surface unit of the sum of pores and oxide inclusions on a cut surface traversing the component is at least 10.000 pro mm2, in at least one region.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a layer structure that is formed between an interconnect and a cathode of a high-temperature fuel cell and that can be used to form a ceramic layer structure between an interconnect and a cathode. The interconnect is made of a metal alloy containing chromium. The aim of the invention is to provide a layer structure between an interconnect and a cathode of a high-temperature fuel cell, by means of which good protective function (against corrosion and against chromium evaporation), high electrical conductivity, and good thermal expansion behavior matched to the materials of an interconnect and of a cathode can be achieved. The layer structure is formed in the green state by a powdery spinel and at least one metal oxide from the group comprising CuO, NiO, CoOx, and MnOx as a sintering additive, and at least one powdery perovskite. Chromium is not contained in any of said chemical compounds. The fraction of contained spinel having the metal oxides as a sintering additive is reduced from the side facing the interconnect to the side facing the cathode, and the fraction of perovskite is reduced from the side facing the cathode to the side facing the interconnect.
Abstract:
Pulvermetallurgisches Bauteil mit einem Chromgehalt von zumindest 80 Gew. %, wobei im Bauteil Poren und/oder Oxideinschlüsse vorhanden sind, wobei die Anzahl pro Flächeneinheit der Summe aus Poren und Oxideinschlüssen an einer Schnittfläche durch das Bauteil in wenigstens einem Bereich zumindest 10 000 pro mm2 beträgt.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a powdered metal component having a chromium content of at least 80 % by weight. Pores and/or oxide inclusions are provided in the components and the number per surface unit of the sum of pores and oxide inclusions on a cut surface traversing the component is at least 10.000 pro mm2, in at least one region.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a layer structure which is formed between an interconnect and a cathode of a solid oxide fuel cell and can be used for forming a ceramic layer structure between an interconnect and a cathode. In this respect, the interconnect comprises a metal alloy containing chromium. The object of the present invention is to provide a layer structure between an interconnect and a cathode of a solid oxide fuel cell with which a good protective function (from corrosion and from chromium vaporization), a high electrical conductivity and also a good thermal expansion behavior adapted to the materials of an interconnect and of a cathode can be achieved. The layer structure in the green state is formed by a powdery spinel as well as at least one of the below-named metal oxides CuO, NiO, CoO x and MnO x as a sintering additive and at least one powdery perovskite. In this respect, chromium is not contained in any of these chemical compounds and the portion of spinel contained with the metal oxides as a sintering additive is reduced starting from the side facing the interconnect up to the side facing the cathode and the portion of perovskite is reduced starting from the side facing the cathode in the direction of the side facing the interconnect.
Abstract:
The invention describes a shaped part, in particular an interconnector or an end plate for a fuel cell stack, which is produced by pressing and sintering a pulverulent starting material. The shaped part consists of a disc-shaped or plate-shaped basic body -1-having a multiplicity of knob-like and/or ridge-like elevations -2- with a height h. In cross section, each elevation -2- has two inclined side flanks which lead, proceeding from an end contour -3- of the elevation -2-, via rounded corner portions -4-, -4'- with a radius r or r' directly or via intermediate rectilinear portions -5-, -5'- into curved portions -6-, -6'- with a radius R or R', which in turn merge into the surface contour -7-, -7'- of the basic body -1-. The rectilinear portions -5-, -5'-or, in the case of a direct transition of the rounded corner portions -4-, -4'- into the curved portions -6-, -6'-, the tangents at the point of the transition, have an angle of inclination a or a' with respect to the surface contour -7-, -7'- in the range of 95° to 135°. According to the invention, the radius R or R' is in the range of 0.15 to 1 mm and the height h is dimensioned such that the ratio R: h or R' : h is in a range of 0.25 to 1.
Abstract:
Interconector para una pila de combustible de alta temperatura y de electrolito sólido de una aleación de cromo sinterizada, que presenta poros debidos a la sinterización, con Cr > 90 % en peso, entre el 3 y el 8 % en peso de Fe y, opcionalmente, entre el 0,001 y el 2 % en peso de al menos un elemento del grupo de los metales de tierras raros, caracterizado porque la aleación de cromo contiene entre el 0,1 y el 2 % en peso de Al, estando llenados los poros debidos a la sinterización al menos en parte con un compuesto oxídico que contiene Al y Cr.
Abstract:
The substrate-supported anode for a high-temperature fuel cell according to the invention comprises an at least three-layer anode laminate (A1, A2, A3) on a metallic substrate. Each of the individual layers of the anode laminate comprises yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and nickel, wherein the mean particle size of the nickel decreases from one layer to the next as the distance from the substrate increases. The last layer of the anode laminate, which is provided for the contact with the electrolyte, has a root mean square roughness R q, which within the scope of the invention is also referred to as mean surface roughness, of less than 4 µm. The overall mean pore size of this layer is typically between 0.3 and 1.5 pm. In the method for producing such a substrate-supported anode for a high-temperature fuel cell, starting powders having a bimodal particle size distribution of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and nickell-containing powder are used at least for the first and second layers of the anode laminate. The mean particle size of the nickel-containing powder that is used is reduced from one layer to the next, whereby it is advantageously no more than 0.5 pm in the last layer of the anode laminate.