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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1988
Charles J Spengler, Murrysville, PA (US);
Roswell J Ruka, Churchill Borough, PA (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of reducing the removal or transfer into a gas phase of a current carrying metal in an apparatus, such as an electrochemical cell 2 having a porous fuel electrode 6 containing metal particles 11, where the metal is subject to removal or transfer into a gaseous phase, the method characterized in that (1) a metal organic compound that decomposes to form an electronically conducting oxide coating when heated is applied to the metal and porous electrode, and (2) the compound on the metal is then heated to a temperature sufficient to decompose the compound into an oxide coating 13 by increasing the temperature at a rate that is longer than 1 hour between room temperature and 600.degree. C., resulting in at least one continuous layer 13, 14 of the oxide coating on the metal.