FABRICATION OF ANODE-SUPPORTED

TUBULAR SOFC BY BRAZING PROCESS

Rak-Hyun Song, Seung-Bok Lee, Tak-Hyoung Lim,

Dong-Ryul Shin

Advanced Fuel Cell Research Center,

Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)

71-2 Jang-Dong, Yuseong, Daejon, 305-343, Korea

The anode-supported tubular and flat-tube solid oxide fuel

cell (SOFC) were fabricated and joined onto the metal
Fig. 1. Gas permeability of brazed anode-supported
brazing cap (SUS430) for current collecting and sealing tubular cell as a function of pressure difference (He gas).
by using the induction brazing process. The gas
permeability test (Fig. 1) revels that among the filler
materials used in the induction brazing process, BNi 2 has
shown the lowest gas permeability of 1x 10-6 Lcm-2sec-1 at
pressure difference of 3 atm measured with He gas. The
electrical conductivity of anode support brazed with BNi
2 shows 450 Scm-1 at 750 oC and stable value even at the
long-term and thermal cycle tests. It could be estimated
by SEM images (Fig. 2) that the brazed joint was not
change and stable even at the thermal cycle condition.
The brazed anode-supported tubular and flat-tube cell at
o
operating temperature of 750 C produce the cell
performance of 158 mW/cm2 and 210 mW/cm2 at 0.7V, Fig. 2. Microstructure and elemental distributions at the
respectively. The gas-tightness was confirmed by OCV Ni-YSZ cermet/filler material interface. (a) Ni-YSZ/BNi
2 interface, (b) Ni-YSZ/BNi 5 interface, (c) Ni-YSZ/
value nearly the same as theoretical value. At the long- Nicusil interface, (d) Ni-YSZ/Palcusil interface.
term operation of anode-supported flat-tube cell (Fig. 3),
the stable cell performance and OCV were obtained.
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Fig. 3. Long-term behavior of brazed anode-supported

flat-tube cell under constant load of 300mA/cm2 at 750
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C.