Solid-Oxide Electrochemical Cell for Determining the Diffusion of Hydrogen in Nitrogen at High Temperatures

Abstract

Procedure was developed for measuring the diffusion coefficient of hydrogen in its mixture with nitrogen in the temperature range 450–600°C under atmospheric pressure. This is done in an electrochemical cell based on a solid-oxide electrolyte with proton conductivity of composition BaCe_0.7Zr_0.1Y_0.2O_3–δ. The procedure makes it possible to trace how the hydrogen diffusion coefficient varies with temperature and hydrogen concentration in nitrogen. It is shown that the hydrogen diffusion coefficient grows with increasing hydrogen concentration, its temperature dependence is of power-law type with n = 1.5, and it is in satisfactory agreement with the theoretical temperature dependence