Film forming method of corrosion resistant film, corrosion resistant member on which corrosion resistant film is formed, heat exchanger, and fuel cell system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11912879-B2
Application number	US-202117198490-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2021
Priority date	Apr 2, 2020
Publication date	Feb 27, 2024
Grant date	Feb 27, 2024

Abstract

Provided is a film forming method of a corrosion resistant film having a corrosion resistance under acidic atmosphere and a corrosion resistant member on which the corrosion resistant film is coated. The film forming method of the corrosion resistant film includes: bringing a substrate made of aluminum into contact with an aqueous solution containing sulfate ions and fluoride ions; and heating the substrate to boil the aqueous solution on a surface of the substrate and forming a corrosion resistant film containing at least oxygen, fluorine, and sulfur in the aluminum derived from the substrate on the surface of the substrate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A film forming method of a corrosion resistant film, comprising:
bringing a substrate made of aluminum into contact with an aqueous solution containing sulfate ions and fluoride ions; and
heating the substrate to boil the aqueous solution on a surface of the substrate to form a corrosion resistant film on the surface of the substrate, the corrosion resistant film containing oxygen, fluorine, and sulfur derived from the aqueous solution and aluminum derived from the substrate,
wherein during the heating, air bubbles are repeatedly generated in the aqueous solution on the surface of the substrate and desorbed from the surface of the substrate, resulting in repeated dissolution of an oxide film on the surface of the substrate and repeated taking of the sulfate ions and the fluoride ions into the surface of the substrate to form the corrosion resistant film.

2. The film forming method of the corrosion resistant film according to claim 1 ,
wherein the substrate forms a wall portion of a storage portion that stores the aqueous solution as a part of a heat exchanger,
wherein in the bringing, the storage portion is caused to store the aqueous solution, and
wherein in the heating, a heat of a thermal fluid introduced to the heat exchanger and having a temperature higher than a boiling point of the aqueous solution is transmitted to the aqueous solution via the wall portion to boil the aqueous solution.

3. The film forming method of the corrosion resistant film according to claim 2 ,
wherein the heat exchanger is disposed in a fuel cell system including a fuel cell stack that performs electric generation with an air and a hydrogen gas,
wherein the aqueous solution is produced water produced during the electric generation by the fuel cell stack,
wherein the thermal fluid is an air discharged from an air compressor,
wherein in the bringing, the produced water produced in the fuel cell stack is supplied to the storage portion, and
wherein in the heating, the air discharged from the air compressor is supplied to the heat exchanger.

4. The film forming method of the corrosion resistant film according to claim 1 ,
wherein in the bringing, the sulfate ions have a concentration of 0.18 ppm or more, the fluoride ions have a concentration of 0.03 ppm or more in the aqueous solution, and pH of the aqueous solution at a temperature of 20° C. is from 3 to 6.

5. The film forming method of the corrosion resistant film according to claim 1 , wherein in the heating, the aqueous solution is boiled in a nucleate boiling region.

6. A film forming method of a corrosion resistant film, comprising:
storing an aqueous solution containing sulfate ions and fluoride ions in a storage portion, the storage portion being part of a heat exchanger with a wall portion of the storage portion formed of a substrate made of aluminum, the substrate being in contact with the aqueous solution during the storing; and
heating the substrate by a heat of a thermal fluid that is introduced to the heat exchanger, the thermal fluid having a temperature higher than a boiling point of the aqueous solution so that heat is transmitted to the aqueous solution via the wall portion to boil the aqueous solution on a surface of the substrate to form a corrosion resistant film on the surface of the substrate, the corrosion resistant film containing oxygen, fluorine, and sulfur derived from the aqueous solution and aluminum derived from the substrate.

7. The film forming method of the corrosion resistant film according to claim 6 ,
wherein the heat exchanger is disposed in a fuel cell system including a fuel cell stack that performs electric generation with an air and a hydrogen gas,
wherein the aqueous solution is produced water produced during the electric generation by the fuel cell stack,
wherein the thermal fluid is an air discharged from an air compressor,
wherein in the storing, the produced water produced in the fuel cell stack is supplied to the storage portion, and
wherein in the heating, the air discharged from the air compressor is supplied to the heat exchanger.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kataoka Tomoharu
• Watanabe Masao
• Kusano Yuya

Classifications

• C09D1/00 Primary

  Coating compositions, e.g. paints, varnishes or lacquers, based on inorganic substances · CPC title

• C23F11/182

  Sulfur, boron or silicon containing compounds · CPC title

• F28F19/06

  of metal · CPC title

• H01M8/04014

  Heat exchange using gaseous fluids; Heat exchange by combustion of reactants · CPC title

• H01M8/04029

  Heat exchange using liquids · CPC title