Plugging micro-leaks in multi-component, ceramic tubesheets with material leached therefrom
Abstract
Cracks, in ceramic wall members, on the order of 1 micron or less in width are plugged helium-tight by selectively leaching a component of the wall member with a solvent, letting the resultant leach form a liquid bridge within the crack, removing the solvent and sintering the resultant residue. This method is of particular value for remedying microcracks or channels in a cell member constituting a tubesheet in a hollow fiber type, high temperature battery cell, such as a sodium/sulfur cell, for example. 1 fig.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 7250598
- Patent Number(s):
- 4505995
- Application Number:
- PPN: US 6-312588
- Assignee:
- Dow Chemical Co., Midland, MI (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76ET25103
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 19 Oct 1981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; BATTERY SEPARATORS; REPAIR; CERAMICS; SINTERING; SODIUM-SULFUR BATTERIES; CRACKS; LEACHING; SIZE; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; FABRICATION; METAL-NONMETAL BATTERIES; SEPARATION PROCESSES; 250903* - Energy Storage- Batteries- Materials, Components, & Auxiliaries; 360201 - Ceramics, Cermets, & Refractories- Preparation & Fabrication
Citation Formats
Bieler, B H, and Tsang, F Y. Plugging micro-leaks in multi-component, ceramic tubesheets with material leached therefrom. United States: N. p., 1985.
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Bieler, B H, & Tsang, F Y. Plugging micro-leaks in multi-component, ceramic tubesheets with material leached therefrom. United States.
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@article{osti_7250598,
title = {Plugging micro-leaks in multi-component, ceramic tubesheets with material leached therefrom},
author = {Bieler, B H and Tsang, F Y},
abstractNote = {Cracks, in ceramic wall members, on the order of 1 micron or less in width are plugged helium-tight by selectively leaching a component of the wall member with a solvent, letting the resultant leach form a liquid bridge within the crack, removing the solvent and sintering the resultant residue. This method is of particular value for remedying microcracks or channels in a cell member constituting a tubesheet in a hollow fiber type, high temperature battery cell, such as a sodium/sulfur cell, for example. 1 fig.},
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place = {United States},
year = {1985},
month = {3}
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