Surface controlled reduction kinetics of nominally undoped polycrystalline CeO2.

Ceria is an interesting material for high temperature redox applications like solar-thermal splitting of CO2 and H2O. Technical implementation and reactor design for solar-thermal redox-based fuel generation requires reliable data for the chemical surface exchange coefficient and the chemical diffusivity of oxygen. The results of thermogravimetric relaxation experiments and equilibrium oxygen isotope exchange experiments with subsequent depth profiling analysis suggest that the reduction reaction of even dense samples of pure ceria (1 mm thickness, 93% of theoretical density) with a grain size of about 20 μm is surface reaction controlled. The chemical surface exchange coefficient exhibits a negative apparent activation energy (-64 kJ mol(-1)). This finding is corroborated by similar data from literature for the tracer surface exchange coefficient. The structure of the derived expression for the apparent activation energy further suggests that the chemical surface exchange coefficient should show only a very weak dependence on temperature for ceria doped with lower valence cations.

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