Electrical conductivity of NaF-AlF3-CaF2-Al2O3-ZrO2 molten salts
(1. School of Materials and Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China;
2. Instrumental Analysis Center, Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, Tongliao 028000, China)
2. Instrumental Analysis Center, Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, Tongliao 028000, China)
Abstract: The electrical conductivity of NaF-AlF3-CaF2-Al2O3-ZrO2 system was studied by a tube-type cell with fixed cell constant. The results show that the electrical conductivity of NaF-AlF3-3%Al2O3-3%CaF2-ZrO2 molten salt system decreases with increase of ZrO2 content in an interval of 0-5%. The increase of 1% ZrO2 results in a corresponding electrical conductivity decrease of 0.02 S/cm, and the equivalent conductivity increases with the increase of molar ratio of NaF to AlF3. When the temperature increases by 1 °C, the electrical conductivity increases by 0.004 S/cm. At last, the regression equations of electrical conductivity relative to temperature and ZrO2 are obtained by quadratic regression analysis.
Key words: ZrO2; molten salt electrolysis; electrical conductivity; NaF; AlF3; Al-Zr alloy