In order to solve the problem of large temperature difference between the center and ends of the metallic rod in the purification process of solid-state electrotransport(SSE),three types of electrode connections of tantalum and the corresponding rods of metallic lanthanum were designed,the temperature distributions of three kinds of rod were measured,and the influence of temperature difference on the purification effect of solid-state electrotransport was investigated.The results indicate that the maximum temperature difference of the rod will be significantly reduced through decreasing the cross section of electrode connection to make its unit length resistance close to that of rod,or increasing the unit length resistance of the section at both ends of the rod.When these two measures are adopted at the same time,the effect of decreasing rod temperature difference is the best in the present study,and the maximum temperature difference of the rod can be reduced to 29℃when the maximum temperature of the rod is 820℃.The migration velocity of the impurities at rod ends can be obviously improved after the rod temperature difference is reduced,which enables the purification effect and efficiency of solid-state electrotransport to be greatly raised;it is also found that the major impurities iron in metallic lanthanum migrates more easily than oxygen and carbon during the purification of metal lanthanum with solid-state electrotransport.
The effects of samarium(Sm) on microstructure and corrosion resistance of AZ92 magnesium alloy were characterized and analyzed by scanning electronic microscopy, X-ray diffraction, mass loss test, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and potentio-dynamic polarization test. The results showed that the added Sm could promote continuous precipitation of β-Mg17Al12 phase in grains, and meanwhile restrain discontinuous precipitation of the same phase along the grain boundaries. Thus, the precipitations distributed more uniformly in the aged AZ92 magnesium alloys. When the content of Sm was 0.5 wt.%, the corrosion resistance of aged AZ92 alloy tended to be the best, which was due to the β-phase distributes more homogeneous reducing the galvanic corrosion. The corrosion product film had more integrality and compactness than AZ92 alloys without Sm. However, it resulted in worse corrosion resistance of AZ92 alloy because of the formation of mass cathodic Al2 Sm phase coming from excess Sm in AZ92 alloy.
The electrical conductivity of REF3-LiF(RE=La and Nd) molten salts(xREF3=5 mol%-40 mol%) was systematically measured over the temperature range from 1223 to 1423 K by using continuously varying cell constant(CVCC) method.Electrical conductivity values of LaF3-LiF and NdF3-LiF molten salts within the studied ranges are 4.11-9.39 and 3.62-9.51 S/cm,respectively.The composition and temperature dependences of electrical conductivity and the factor of RE2 O3 on electrical conductivity were investigated.The electrical conductivity nonlinearly decreases with the increasing mole percent of REF3 for the changing of structural ion in molten salts.A good linear relationship between the natural logarithm of electrical conductivity(lnκ) and the reciprocal of the absolute temperature(T-1) can be interpreted by the trend that electrical conductivity linearly increases with increasing temperature.Although it is an important factor of RE2 O3 on electrical conductivity,the influence of RE2 O3 on conductivity is small for the very limited solubility of RE2 O3 in REF3-LiF molten salts.The results of this work supplement the present electrical conductivity data of rare earth fluoride electrolyte.
