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Thermochemical Properties of High Entropy Oxides Used as Redox-Active Materials in Two-Step Solar Fuel Production Cycles

Alex Le Gal
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Marielle Vallès
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Anne Julbe

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The main challenges and obstacles to the development of hydrogen/carbon monoxide production from the splitting of water/carbon dioxide through two-step solar thermochemical cycles are strongly related to material concerns. Indeed, ceria is the main benchmark redox material used in such processes because it provides very good oxidation reaction kinetics, reactions reversibility and thermal cycling stability. This is at the expense of a low reduction yield (non-stoichiometry δ in CeO2-δ) at relatively high temperatures (≥1400 °C), which requires operation at low oxygen partial pressures during the reduction step. Hence, the specific fuel output per mass of redox material, i.e., the amount of H2/CO produced per cycle, remains low, thereby limiting the overall solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency. Perovskites offer larger amounts of fuel produced per cycle but the reaction kinetics are slow. This study addresses the thermochemical investigation of a new class of metal oxides, namely high entropy oxides (HEOs), with the aim of improving the specific amount of fuel generated per cycle with good kinetic rates. Different formulations of high entropy oxides were investigated and compared using thermogravimetric analysis to evaluate their redox activity and ability to split CO2 during thermochemical cycles. Among the different formulations tested, five HEOs yielded CO with a maximum specific fuel output of 154 µmol/g per cycle. These materials' performances exceeded the production yields of ceria under similar conditions but are still far from the production yields reached with lanthanum-manganese perovskites. This new class of materials, however, opens a wide path for research into new formulations of redox-active catalysts comparing favorably with the ceria redox performance for solar thermochemical synthetic fuel production.
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hal-03798014 , version 1 (05-10-2022)

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Alex Le Gal, Marielle Vallès, Anne Julbe, Stéphane Abanades. Thermochemical Properties of High Entropy Oxides Used as Redox-Active Materials in Two-Step Solar Fuel Production Cycles. Catalysts, 2022, 12 (10), pp.1116. ⟨10.3390/catal12101116⟩. ⟨hal-03798014⟩
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