TY - JOUR
T1 - Oxygen permeation performance of BaBiO3-δ ceramic membranes
AU - Sunarso, J.
AU - Liu, S.
AU - Lin, Jerry
AU - Diniz da Costa, J. C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Australian Research Council for financial support on this research project. Jaka Sunarso also acknowledges Ph.D. scholarship (UQIRA and UQILAS) provided by the University of Queensland. The authors would like to thank Dr. Kevin Jack for his assistance in the XRD analysis.
Copyright:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/11/15
Y1 - 2009/11/15
N2 - In this work, perovskite BaBiO3-δ disk membranes were synthesized with the molar ratio (z) of BiO1.5 to BaO between 0.5 and 3 at varying sintering temperatures. Disk membranes with z > 1.33, associated with a lower amount of Bi-rich perovskite phase, showed mechanically weak properties while membranes with z ≤ 1 showed superior stability at temperatures in excess of 800 °C. The best performance was obtained for the z = 0.86 disk membrane, reaching oxygen fluxes of 1.2 ml min-1 cm-2 at 950 °C. This was attributed to the higher sintering temperature and the formation of oxygen deficient phase of BaBiO3-δ perovskite. For gas testing temperatures above 800 °C, it was found that the oxygen permeation was limited by both bulk diffusion and surface kinetics as oxygen flux did not increase proportionally to the inverse of membrane thickness reduction. Further analysis showed that the activation energy for oxygen ionic transport changed at 800 °C, however the z = 1 sample displayed the opposite trend from other compositions, indicating the formation of more oxygen vacancies in the crystal lattice. Mechanically stable disk membranes exposed to thermal cycling tests resulted in crystal structure instability of the pure perovskite (z = 1) and loss of oxygen vacancies while the z < 1 sample was relatively stable. Conversely, z > 1 sample showed superior thermal cycling and crystal structure stability.
AB - In this work, perovskite BaBiO3-δ disk membranes were synthesized with the molar ratio (z) of BiO1.5 to BaO between 0.5 and 3 at varying sintering temperatures. Disk membranes with z > 1.33, associated with a lower amount of Bi-rich perovskite phase, showed mechanically weak properties while membranes with z ≤ 1 showed superior stability at temperatures in excess of 800 °C. The best performance was obtained for the z = 0.86 disk membrane, reaching oxygen fluxes of 1.2 ml min-1 cm-2 at 950 °C. This was attributed to the higher sintering temperature and the formation of oxygen deficient phase of BaBiO3-δ perovskite. For gas testing temperatures above 800 °C, it was found that the oxygen permeation was limited by both bulk diffusion and surface kinetics as oxygen flux did not increase proportionally to the inverse of membrane thickness reduction. Further analysis showed that the activation energy for oxygen ionic transport changed at 800 °C, however the z = 1 sample displayed the opposite trend from other compositions, indicating the formation of more oxygen vacancies in the crystal lattice. Mechanically stable disk membranes exposed to thermal cycling tests resulted in crystal structure instability of the pure perovskite (z = 1) and loss of oxygen vacancies while the z < 1 sample was relatively stable. Conversely, z > 1 sample showed superior thermal cycling and crystal structure stability.
KW - Barium bismuth oxide
KW - Oxygen separation
KW - Perovskite membrane
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U2 - 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.08.019
DO - 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.08.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70049087502
SN - 0376-7388
VL - 344
SP - 281
EP - 287
JO - Journal of Membrane Science
JF - Journal of Membrane Science
IS - 1-2
ER -