Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (09): 2030.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0251-0790.2012.09.027

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Effects of Stoichiometry and Dehydrogenation Back-pressure on the Dehydrogenation Behavior of LiBH4+xMg2NiH4 Composites

DENG Shuai-Shuai, XIAO Xue-Zhang, CHEN Li-Xin, HAN Le-Yuan, LI Shou-Quan, GE Hong-Wei, WANG Qi-Dong   

  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • Received:2011-12-26 Online:2012-09-10 Published:2012-08-14

Abstract:

The effects of stoichiometry (x=0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.25) and hydrogen back pressure on the dehydrogenation behavior of LiBH4+xMg2NiH4 composites were investigated systematically by methods of X-ray diffraction(XRD) and temperature programmed desorption(TPD) analysis. The results show that the stoichiometry x has a great effect on the dehydriding kinetics of LiBH4+xMg2NiH4 composites. With the increase of x value for the LiBH4+xMg2NiH4 composites, the decrease of the dehydrogenation temperature and the improvement of the dehydriding kinetics are observed but with a loss of dehydrogenation capacity. Thereinto, LiBH4+0.75Mg2NiH4 composite has the best dehydriding kinetics and a relatively high hydrogen storage capacity under initial hydrogen back pressure of 1×10-4 or 0.4 MPa. The analysis shows that both the stoichiometry x of the LiBH4+xMg2NiH4 mixtures and hydrogen back pressure can influence the wetting between liquid LiBH4 and solid Mg2NiH4, and have a great effect on the dehydrogenation path and kinetics furthermore.

Key words: Hydrogen storage material, Hydrogen storage property, Stoichiometry, LiBH4, Mg2NiH4

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