Processing and Pretreatment Effects on Vanadium Transport in Nafion Membranes
Abstract
Here, this work describes how manufacturing processes and pretreatments affect the proton conductivity and vanadyl permeability of Nafion® and how these properties are altered by running in a cell. Five Nafion membranes were examined: reinforced XL100, dispersion cast NR211 and NR212, and extruded N115 and N117. The membranes were subjected to pretreatments that included annealing at 120°C and immersing in ambient temperature and boiling water and sulfuric acid. Vanadyl permeability varied by ~15X with pretreatment and ~3X with manufacturing process. Variations in ionic conductivity were comparatively modest: ~1.5X with pretreatment and ~1.2X with processing. Differences in permeability can be eliminated by annealing the extruded membranes above their glass-transition temperature or by immersing in boiling sulfuric acid. The differences induced by processing and pretreatments were largely absent from membranes removed from vanadium redox cells subjected to repeated charge/discharge cycles.
- Authors:
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- United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1437234
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000149
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the Electrochemical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 163; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0013-4651
- Publisher:
- The Electrochemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Ionic Conductivity; Nafion®; Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membrane; Pretreatment; Redox Flow Battery; Vanadium Permeability
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Xie, Wei, Darling, Robert M., and Perry, Mike L. Processing and Pretreatment Effects on Vanadium Transport in Nafion Membranes. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1149/2.0111601jes.
Xie, Wei, Darling, Robert M., & Perry, Mike L. Processing and Pretreatment Effects on Vanadium Transport in Nafion Membranes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0111601jes
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"Processing and Pretreatment Effects on Vanadium Transport in Nafion Membranes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0111601jes. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1437234.
@article{osti_1437234,
title = {Processing and Pretreatment Effects on Vanadium Transport in Nafion Membranes},
author = {Xie, Wei and Darling, Robert M. and Perry, Mike L.},
abstractNote = {Here, this work describes how manufacturing processes and pretreatments affect the proton conductivity and vanadyl permeability of Nafion® and how these properties are altered by running in a cell. Five Nafion membranes were examined: reinforced XL100, dispersion cast NR211 and NR212, and extruded N115 and N117. The membranes were subjected to pretreatments that included annealing at 120°C and immersing in ambient temperature and boiling water and sulfuric acid. Vanadyl permeability varied by ~15X with pretreatment and ~3X with manufacturing process. Variations in ionic conductivity were comparatively modest: ~1.5X with pretreatment and ~1.2X with processing. Differences in permeability can be eliminated by annealing the extruded membranes above their glass-transition temperature or by immersing in boiling sulfuric acid. The differences induced by processing and pretreatments were largely absent from membranes removed from vanadium redox cells subjected to repeated charge/discharge cycles.},
doi = {10.1149/2.0111601jes},
journal = {Journal of the Electrochemical Society},
number = 1,
volume = 163,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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