Synthesis of calcium alanate and its dehydriding performance enhanced by FeF3 doping
摘要:
Ca(AlH4)(2) was synthesized by ball-milling the mixture of NaAlH4 and CaCl2 in a molar ratio of 2:1 and under a hydrogen atmosphere of 1 MPa. The results indicate that the reactants have entirely transformed to Ca(AlH4)(2) with a byproduct of NaCl after ball-milling for 48 h. Investigations of dehydriding behavior of the as-prepared Ca(AlH4)(2) sample show that approximately 5.2 wt.% of hydrogen is desorbed during the first two dehydrogenation reactions of Ca(AlH4)(2), which exhibit an exothermic event at 148 degrees C and an endothermic event at 267 degrees C, respectively. The high temperature dehydrogenation at 267 degrees C mainly concentrates on the thermolysis of CaAlH5 intermediate. FeF3-doped Ca(AlH4)(2) system represents an improved dehydriding performance, the dehydrogenation temperature of CaAlH5 intermediate is decreased about 43 degrees C. After FeF3 doping, the apparent activation energy of CaAlH5 is reduced from 153.4 kJ/mol (undoped) to 88.3 kJ/mol (doped), it renders a possibility to realize the rehydrogenation of CaAlH5. The catalytic effect is attributed to a fluorine transfer reaction that occurred to generate CaF2 and Fe catalysts. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Synthesis and dehydrogenation of CeAl4-doped calcium alanate
作者:Xue-zhang Xiao、Chang-xu Li、Li-xin Chen、Xiu-lin Fan、Hua-qin Kou、Qi-dong Wang
DOI:10.1016/j.jallcom.2010.11.044
日期:2011.9
CeAl4-doped Ca(AlH4)(2) was synthesized by reactive ball-milling NaH/Al and CaCl2 with a few moles of CeAl4 catalyst under hydrogen atmosphere. Its synthesis mechanism and dehydriding behavior were systematically investigated by XRD, FTIR, TG/DSC and TPD analyses. These results show that the synthetic process of Ca(AlH4)(2) can be divided into two steps: the first step is ball-milling NaH/Al with CeAl4 under hydrogen atmosphere to form CeAl4-doped NaAlH4, the second step is ball-milling the as-synthesized CeAl4-doped NaAlH4 and CaCl2 to form CeAl4-doped Ca(AlH4)(2). The CeAl4-doped Ca(AlH4)(2) can desorb more than 5.5 wt.% hydrogen below 200 degrees C with an acceptable reaction kinetics, and shows attractive dehydriding behavior better than that of Ca(AlH4)(2) directly prepared by primary NaAlH4 and CaCl2. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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