Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2002, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (4): 661.

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Investigations on Dissolution Mechanism of the NiO Cathode Materialsin MCFC by In-situ Raman Spectroscopy

CHEN Li-Jiang1, CHENG Xuan1, LIN Chang-Jian1, HUANG Chao-Ming2   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;
    2. Energy Research Corporation, Connecticut 06831, USA
  • Received:2000-11-10 Online:2002-04-24 Published:2002-04-24

Abstract: The investigation of dissolution and degradation mechanism of NiOcathode in Molten CarbonateFuel Cell (MCFC) has recently attracted considerable attention.In this work a novel in-situ Raman spec-troscopic technique were developed to study the CO2 microscopic action in the dissolution of NiO.The re-sults indicate that CO2 tend to adsorb on the surface of NiO, and the adsorbing CO2 is prone to being des-orbed in molten carbonate under O2 contained atmosphere, due to the strong reaction between the adsorded CO2 and active O2 on the NiOsurface.

Key words: MCFC, NiO cathode, Dissolution and degradation, CO2, In-situ Raman spectroscopy

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