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蛭石-玻璃复合密封材料用于固体氧化物燃料电池封接性能

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郭梦媛 ¹^,² , 吴云飞 ¹^,² , 李杰 ² , 于明浩 ¹^,² , 葛奔 ¹^,² , 熊星宇 ¹^,² , 杨志宾 ¹^,²

硅酸盐学报 | 固体氧化物电池表界面专题—研究论文 2025,53(10): 3003-3012

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蛭石-玻璃复合密封材料用于固体氧化物燃料电池封接性能

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郭梦媛¹^,², 吴云飞¹^,², 李杰², 于明浩¹^,², 葛奔¹^,², 熊星宇¹^,², 杨志宾¹^,²

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^1．北京怀柔实验室，北京 101499

^2．中国矿业大学（北京）固体氧化物燃料电池研究中心，北京 100083

通讯作者:

杨志宾（1982—），男，博士，教授。

作者简介:

郭梦媛（1993—），女，博士，助理研究员。

Sealing Performance of Vermiculite-Glass Composite Sealing Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

Mengyuan GUO¹^,², Yunfei WU¹^,², Jie LI², Minghao YU¹^,², Ben GE¹^,², Xingyu XIONG¹^,², Zhibin YANG¹^,²

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^1.Beijing Huairou Laboratory, Beijing 101499, China

^2.Research Center of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

Corresponding Author:

YANG Zhibin (1982-), male, Ph.D., Professor. E-mail: yangzhibin0001@163.com

GUO Mengyuan (1993-), female, Ph.D., Assistant Researcher. E-mail: gmy_2016@163.com

出版时间: 2025-10-20 doi: 10.14062/j.issn.0454-5648.20250198

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基于K-Na-Ca-Ba-Si硅酸盐玻璃，分别添加5%（质量分数）、10%、15%蛭石粉末研制3种蛭石-玻璃复合密封材料应用于固体氧化物燃料电池（SOFC），表现出了优良的气密性能和耐铬侵蚀性能。其中，玻璃添加10%蛭石制备的复合密封材料（GV10）应用于纽扣电池测试，在750 ℃时开路电压稳定在1.1 V左右，气密性测试也证明其具有低的气体泄漏速率，进气压力为7 kPa时，气体泄漏速率为0.003 1 sccm·cm^-1。随着操作温度降低，气密性升高，700 ℃进气压力为7 kPa时，气体泄漏速率仅为0.001 9 sccm·cm^-1，这与密封材料热膨胀系数曲线分析发现样品GV10软化温度（538 ℃）较低有关，降低操作温度可以防止玻璃过度软化，提高密封性能。进一步使用扫描电子显微镜和能量色散型X射线谱仪，进行微观形貌和密封界面线扫描，分析表明，片层状的蛭石颗粒嵌入玻璃中可以显著抑制Cr元素向密封材料中扩散，并有助于密封材料获得低气体泄漏速率并提高断裂韧性。蛭石-玻璃复合密封材料是具有潜力的SOFC密封材料。

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固体氧化物燃料电池 / 密封材料 / 硅酸盐玻璃 / 蛭石 / 界面相容性

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Introduction

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) can directly convert chemical energy into electrical energy with high efficiency and environmental friendliness. In the operation of SOFCs (at 600-800 ℃), hydrogen and air are supplied to the fuel and oxygen electrodes, respectively. Gas-tight sealing components are critical for isolating these electrodes to prevent gas crossover and efficiency loss, ensuring safe operation. Ceramic cell-metal interconnect sealing represents a bottleneck technology for SOFCs. Glass is widely used as a sealing material due to its scalability, operational simplicity, and cost-effectiveness. However, monolithic glasses exhibit a narrow functional temperature range and a poor thermal gradient resistance, often developing cracks due to the uneven thermal stress distribution. Glass-matrix composite seals offer enhanced thermal stability and hermeticity. Also, stack operation faces some challenges during startup/shutdown cycles. While mica-based seals demonstrate a superior thermal cycling resistance, their interlaminar bonding strength degrades a post-annealing, leading to delamination and compromised gas tightness. Vermiculite as a another layered silicate clay mineral with a structure similar to mica exhibits a better airtightness rather than mica in high-temperature sealing processes. This is because vermiculite contains an interlayer water, which turns into expanded vermiculite after high-temperature heating. The flexural interlayer structure blocks gas leakage channels, making the layers of vermiculite have greater constraint and bonding properties, thus having a potential for high-temperature sealing.

Methods

A homogeneous mixture of SiO₂, Na₂CO₃, K₂CO₃, KNO₃, BaCO₃, and minor TiO₂ was loaded into an alumina crucible, calcined at 1450 ℃ for 2 h at 5 ℃·min^-1, melted at a high temperature, and quenched in deionized water. The quenched glass block was washed, crushed, ground, dried, and sieved with a 200 mesh sieve to obtain a glass powder (labeled G0). A natural vermiculite powder heat-treated at 900 ℃ for 20 h was blended with G0 at 5%, 10%, and 15% to prepare vermiculite-glass composite sealing materials (i.e., designated as GV5, GV10, and GV15), respectively. Sealing material powder and organic binder (prepared by uniformly mixing ethyl cellulose and terpineol in a mass ratio of 4∶96) were homogenized in a mass ratio of 2.5∶1.0 to form a composite seal paste. This paste was applied between polished SUS430 stainless steel plates to prepare the specimens for high-temperature interfacial compatibility studies, and was also used in a custom-built high-temperature hermeticity testing apparatus.

Results and discussion

The XRD patterns of the sealing material show that the crystallization degree of the composite sealing material increases with increasing vermiculite content in sample G0. The overall phase structure changes of the composite sealing material are affected due to the glass structure changes, and vermiculite as an additive exhibits stable high-temperature thermal properties.

The results of a further open circuit voltage (OCV) test at 750 ℃ show significant OCV fluctuations in sample GV5 possibly due to its low softening temperature (T_s), causing excessive softening of the glass matrix at 750 ℃ and forming gas leakage channels. However, the self-healing property of glass heals microcracks and other leakage channels during softening, leading to OCV fluctuations in sample GV5. Sample G0 has a T_s of 25 ℃, which is higher than sample GV5, showing little OCV fluctuations at 750 ℃ with a good stability. The OCVs of samples GV10 and GV15 remain stable for 900 min, and sample GV10 stabilizes at 1.1 V and sample GV15 does at 1.06 V. The lower OCV of sample GV15 is presumably due to the excessive amount of vermiculite, where the glass matrix cannot fully wet and encapsulate vermiculite particles after high-temperature softening, creating potential leakage channels and affecting gas tightness, while sample GV10 exhibits an excellent gas tightness. The results of further gas tightness tests show that for sample GV10 at an inlet pressure of 7kPa, gas leakage rates at 700, 750 and 800 ℃ are 0.0019, 0.0031 and 0.0073 sccm·cm^-1, respectively.

Increasing vermiculite content from 0 to 15% increases porosity and pore coarsening in the sealing material, possibly because vermiculite particles reabsorb water during green body preparation. At high temperatures, some water vapor enters the lamellar structure of vermiculite, and vermiculite particle expansion under a water vapor pressure causes pore coarsening and increases porosity. Based on the analysis of energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), vermiculite particles embed in glass blocked diffusion of Cr, Fe and other elements from the interconnect into the sealing material. More importantly, lamellar vermiculite with a reversible interlayer expansion potentially adjusts a thermal stress distribution in glass, bridges crack, slows crack propagation and growth, making it a promising sealing material for SOFCs.

Conclusions

Three vermiculite-glass composite sealing materials were developed via incorporating 5%, 10%, and 15% vermiculite powder into a K-Na-Ca-Ba-Si silicate glass matrix and applied to SOFCs. These composites demonstrated excellent gas-tightness and chromium resistance. Among them, the composite with sample GV10 was tested in a button cell configuration, having a stable OCV of 1.1 V at 750 ℃. The results of gas leakage tests confirmed its superior sealing performance, with a leakage rate of 0.0031 sccm·cm^-1 under an input gas pressure of 7 kPa. The gas tightness improved at lower operating temperatures. At 700 ℃ under the same pressure, the leakage rate decreased to 0.0019 sccm·cm^-1, which was attributed to a lower T_s (538 ℃) of sample GV10. Reducing the operating temperature effectively mitigated excessive glass softening, thereby enhancing a sealing reliability. The further microstructural characterization by scanning electron microscopy and EDS revealed that the lamellar vermiculite particles embedded in the glass matrix significantly suppressed a chromium diffusion into the sealing material. This unique microstructure also contributed to reduced gas leakage rates and improved fracture toughness. Therefore, vermiculite-glass composite sealing materials could have a promising potential used as high-performance sealing candidates for SOFCs.

Key words

solid oxide fuel cell / sealing materials / silicate glass / vermiculite / interface compatibility

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郭梦媛, 吴云飞, 李杰, 于明浩, 葛奔, 熊星宇, 杨志宾. 蛭石-玻璃复合密封材料用于固体氧化物燃料电池封接性能. 硅酸盐学报, 2025 , 53 (10) : 3003 -3012 . DOI: 10.14062/j.issn.0454-5648.20250198

Mengyuan GUO, Yunfei WU, Jie LI, Minghao YU, Ben GE, Xingyu XIONG, Zhibin YANG. Sealing Performance of Vermiculite-Glass Composite Sealing Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell[J]. Journal of the Chinese Ceramic Society, 2025 , 53 (10) : 3003 -3012 . DOI: 10.14062/j.issn.0454-5648.20250198

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^1．北京怀柔实验室，北京 101499

^2．中国矿业大学（北京）固体氧化物燃料电池研究中心，北京 100083

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杨志宾（1982—），男，博士，教授。

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