Electrode electrolyte interlayers containing cerium oxide for electrochemical fuel cells

Patent · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2000

OSTI ID:873342

Borglum, Brian P ^[1]; Bessette, Norman F ^[2]

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1. Edgewood, PA
2. N. Huntingdon, PA

An electrochemical cell is made having a porous fuel electrode (16) and a porous air electrode (13), with solid oxide electrolyte (15) therebetween, where the air electrode surface opposing the electrolyte has a separate, attached, dense, continuous layer (14) of a material containing cerium oxide, and where electrolyte (16) contacts the continuous oxide layer (14), without contacting the air electrode (13).

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FC26-97FT34139
• Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation (Orlando, FL)
• Patent Number(s): US 6139985
• OSTI ID: 873342
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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