Effect of Microwave Energy on Titania Doped YSZ

Sonia Mago, Chetan Sharma, Payal Sharma, Kanchan Lata Singh, Anirudh Pratap Singh

Abstract


Today, Solid State Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) have become a need of the hour owing to higher efficiency, low emissions and versatile applications. Various materials are being explored to increase its performance and long-term stability, especially at high temperatures. Though YSZ has been the state of art anode material, YZT is emerging as a future material under consideration. Theundoped YSZ and the doped YSZ, i.e. 5 mol% YZT, calcined and uncalcined, are synthesized by conventional as well as microwave processing from the precursors prepared by mixed oxide method and then characterized for a comparative analysis by XRD of sintered samples. In the current work, potentiality of microwave energy has been exploited for the synthesis of YSZ and YZT. Higher phase stabilization is noted for microwave sintered samples.

 

Keywords: SOFC, YSZ, YZT, XRD, sintering

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Mago Sonia, Sharma Chetan, Singh Kanchan L et al. Effect of Microwave Energy on Titania Doped YSZ. Research & Reviews: Journal of Physics. 2018; 7(3): 51–55p


Keywords


SOFC;YSZ;YZT;XRD;Sintering

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