Brief Review of the Projects Brief Review of the Projects Performed by Performed by

RFNC-VNIITF in the Field of RFNC-VNIITF in the Field of Environment Protection and Environment Protection and

on Solid-Oxide Fuel Cellson Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells

Russian Federal Nuclear Center Russian Federal Nuclear Center Academician Zababakhin Research Academician Zababakhin Research

Institute of Technical Physics Institute of Technical Physics

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V. KuranovV. Kuranov

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SnezhinskSnezhinsk

Ecoanalytical Ecoanalytical monitoringmonitoring

Project #060 “Evaluation of the potential health risks resulting from worker and public exposures to toxic and radioactive substances in the Chelyabinsk Region”. Project #342 “Research and Development of Electrochemical Instruments and Procedures for Environmental Monitoring”Project #342-2 “Development of On-line System Based on a Long-lived Sensor for Measuring Concentrations of Toxic Elements in River Water”Project #1095 “Atmospheric Transport of Radioactivity in the Vicinity of the Karachai Lake”.

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SnezhinskSnezhinsk

Ecoanalytical Ecoanalytical monitoringmonitoring

Several Projects were performed together with the scientists from Kirghizia, for example Project #КР-330 “Study of Natural Processes Taking Place in Issyk-Kul Lake and Issyk-Kul Depression by Means of Isotope Methods”.

Project #500 “The Assessment of Priorities for Middle Urals' Environmental Pollution Prevention”, which was aimed at investigation of ecosystem of the city Karabash in the Middle Urals.

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SnezhinskSnezhinsk

Rehabilitation Rehabilitation of the territoriesof the territories

Project #1872 “Working out a Program of Remediation and Development of the City of Karabash by Implementing Technologies for Recovery of Its Technogenic Resources”. This Project is the follow-up of the Project #500.

VNIITFVNIITF

SnezhinskSnezhinsk

Radioactive wastes handling

Project # 17 “Feasibility study of technologies for accelerator based conversion of military plutonium and long-lived radioactive waste”Project #33 “Nuclear waste management and disposal at MAYAK site”Project # 698 “Experimental Mock-Up of Accelerators-Based Facility for Transmutation of Radioactive Waste and Conversion of Military Plutonium”Project # 793 “Experimental and Theoretical Study of Chemical and Physical Properties of Rocks as natural Barrier in Radioactive Waste Disposal”.Project # 1815P “Cleanup of High Level Waste Tanks. Feasibility study”.

VNIITFVNIITF

SnezhinskSnezhinsk

Solid oxide fuel cellSolid oxide fuel cell

Project #15179 with EPRI (USA) “Studies of barium ceria electrolyte” (Lab-To-Lab)

Project # WO 8308-02 with EPRI (USA) “Development of Manufacturing Methods and Research of Properties of the Fuel Cells on the Basis of Proton-Conducting Barium Zirconate and Barium Praseodymium Oxide (Pr6O11)” (Lab-To-Lab)

Project # AQ-3351 with SNL (USA) “Materials, used for gas sealing as applied for solid oxide fuel cells” (Lab-To-Lab)Project # AХ-9003 with SNL (USA) “Materials, used for gas sealing as applied for solid oxide fuel cells” (Lab-To-Lab)Project IPP-ANL-057-RS with ANL (USA) “Sealants for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells on the basis of Lanthanum Borate” (IPP)

VNIITFVNIITF

SnezhinskSnezhinsk

Solid oxide fuel cellSolid oxide fuel cell

Project IPP-ANL-059-RS with ANL (USA) “Improvement of Mechanical Strengths of Electrolyte for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells” (IPP)ISTC Project # 483 “Development of New Technologies for Manufacturing of Al2O3, TiO2 and ZrO2 Nanoceramics for Dies and High-Temperature Fuel Cells”ISTC Project # 1127 “Researches on development of a method of surface micromechanical tests of metal oxide thin-film heat resisting coatings on metal-ceramic substrates for high-temperature fuel cells”ISTC Project # 1231 “Development of the vacuum-plasma methods for production of thin-film materials of high-temperature solid oxide fuel cells for electrochemical power plants ”

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ISTC Project # 1647 “Development, manufacture and demonstration tests of 2.5 kW power solid oxide cells stack”

ISTC Project # 2277 “Development of Electrochemical Oxygen Pumps”

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