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Anthony H. McDaniel,* Elizabeth C. Miller,‡ab Darwin Arifin,§a Andrea Ambrosini,b
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Received 22nd April 2013 Eric N. Coker,b Ryan O'Hayre,c William C. Chueh{ and Jianhua Tong*
Accepted 4th June 2013
DOI: 10.1039/c3ee41372a
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following two reactions:
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CeO2 þ 1 1
d !D CeO þ 2 (1)
O 2—
d d 2
1 —
CeO2 — þ H O ——!D 1 CeO (2)
d d
2
þH
2 2
d
where d represents the extent of oxygen nonstoichiometry in ow and heated at 16 ◦C s—1 to 1350 ◦C. A positive production
the solid. In this two-step cycle, the oxide is rst reduced (eqn rate indicates O2 released by the solid, and a negative rate
(1)) on- sun at high temperature (T1 > 1500 ◦C). The oxidation indicates O2 incorporation. It is clear by the magnitude of the
reaction area under the SLMA3 curve (shown in parenthesis) that the
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Fig. 1 (a) Rate of O2 released and absorbed by SLMA3 and CeO2 as a function
of time and temperature measured in a constant O 2 partial pressure of 0.2
mbar. Samples heated at 16 ◦C s—1 between 850 and 1350 ◦C, then held at
1350 ◦C for 120 s. The total amount of O2 released in mmoles per g
material is shown in parentheses. (b) Oxygen evolution at the onset of thermal
reduction in 100 mbar He showing SLMA3 reduces at temperatures 300 ◦ C
below CeO2.
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improvements in the redox thermodynamics, as well as a
dramatic increase in the redox capacity, by tuning the perov-
skite composition (e.g., combining Mn and Al on the B-site).
Further investigation into the structure–property relationship
in this particular system may yield even higher performing
compositions.
A tremendous challenge to advancing the use of thermo-
chemical cycles for water and carbon dioxide splitting is the
identication of viable materials. Commercial success is
pred-
icated upon materials composed of earth-abundant elements
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Conclusions
In general, the WS and CDS rates for the three SLMA
formula- tions we synthesized and characterized are
comparable to CeO2, a material known for fast redox kinetics.
In addition, these perovskites produce signicantly more
fuel than ceria at
reduction temperatures well below 1550 ◦C and maintain
constant activity for many cycles. This is key to market viability
because materials must remain active for many thousands of
redox cycles in order to avoid high costs associated with
frequent replacement (e.g., assuming 5 min per cycle, 8 h per
day, 300 days per year, 10 years material life equates to
~ 300 000 cycles). CSP materials must also have sufficient
activity to achieve high process efficiency (solar-to-fuel conver-
sion efficiency >20% on an annual average basis).8
Concern regarding process efficiency has been raised by
Scheffe et al. in their recent work with (La, Sr)MnO 3—d.23 They
claim that the LSM family of materials will likely lag ceria in
terms of solar-to-fuel efficiency under most CSP conditions
because they require lower oxidation temperatures (T2 ¼ 127 ◦C)
and large amounts of oxidant (H 2O or CO2) to achieve favour-
able redox behaviour. This conclusion was based primarily on
the need to heat LSM over a much larger temperature difference
between T2 and T1, thus requiring more solar energy input per
cycle than CeO2. However, assessing overall process efficiency is
a complex proposition that must take into account the specic
reactor design and method of operation.26 For example, it is
not impractical to operate a solar thermochemical reactor
using a large amount of excess steam, or even a large difference
between T2 and T1, as long as the sensible heat can be
recovered effec- tively. In addition, their assessment was based
on analyzing a narrow composition space of hole-doped
LaMnO3. In this study
We anticipate that the amenability of the perovskite structure
to doping and substitution will open a vast composition
space, within which even more effective materials can be
designed that will accelerate realization of economical fuel
production based on thermochemical cycles.
Abbreviations
SLMA1 Sr0.4La0.6Mn0.6Al0.4O3—d
SLMA2 Sr0.6La0.4Mn0.6Al0.4O3—d
SLMA3 Sr0.4La0.6Mn0.4Al0.6O3—d.
Acknowledgements
E.C.M. was supported by a DOE NNSA Stewardship Science
Graduate Fellowship, grant number DE-FC52-08NA28752.
W.C.C. was supported by an appointment to the Sandia
National Laboratories Truman Fellowship in National
Security Science and Engineering. Work conducted at
Colorado School of Mines was supported by the National
Science Foundation MRSEC program under grant no. DMR-
0820518. Work at Sandia was supported by the DOE Fuel Cell
Technologies Office as part of the Production technology
development area, and by Labo- ratory Directed Research
and Development at Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia is
a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation,
a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States
Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security
Administration under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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