A novel solid oxide electrochemical oxygen pump for oxygen therapy
Abstract
A solid oxide electrochemical oxygen pump was developed in tubular geometry with YSZ electrolyte and LSCF/CGO symmetrical air electrodes. The cells were manufactured based on green symmetrical porous YSZ electrode backbones cast on the green YSZ electrolyte tape, rolled into tubular geometry, co-sintered and impregnated with functional materials. The prepared cell had a thin 16 μm-electrolyte and supporting 76 μm-symmetric electrodes. At 700 °C, 2.8 A current (0.8 A cm−2) was obtained under 0.5 V in the single tubular cell infiltrated with 30% CGO and 45% LSCF. A four cell bundle produced theoretical 1.82 l hr−1 O2 with a power consumption of 2.18 W at 700 °C. Excellent stability of the cells was achieved during severe current and thermal cycling tests, indicating the successful fabrication of the tubular cells using the tape co-casting method.
Citation
Wang , M , Nowicki , K M & Irvine , J T S 2022 , ' A novel solid oxide electrochemical oxygen pump for oxygen therapy ' , Journal of The Electrochemical Society , vol. 169 , no. 6 , 064509 . https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ac7008
Publication
Journal of The Electrochemical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0013-4651Type
Journal article
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The authors would like to acknowledge the Scottish Funding Council for support this work and EPSRC for the Scios and EM equipment (EP/L017008/1, EP/T019298/1).Collections
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