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The reversibility of hydrogen absorption and desorption can be improved by bringing either the cationic or anionic substitution to form a ternary compound for example, LiBH4, Mg2FeH6, or Zn(BH4)2 [6, 7]. Further to decrease the temperature of hydrogen sorption can be facilitated by destabilizing via introducing alkaline metal hydrides, to form a quaternary structure, for example, LaMg2NiH7 [8] or LiMg2RuH7 [9]. There are consistent efforts underway towards the development of a
Lithium and Magnesium are considered to be lightest and highly reactive elements due to their placement next to hydrogen in the periodic table. The ternary hydride of Lithium, namely, LiBH4 possesses very high storage density of hydrogen up to ~20 wt.% and ~ 125 kgH2/m3 in terms of gravimetric and volumetric measurements [11, 12, 13, 14]. However, the significant hydrogen decomposition occurs at temperatures >400°C [15]. The dehydriding and reversible hydriding of LiBH4 follows the typical metal-hydrogen bonding reactions per the equations below.
The reversibility enhancements and destabilization of LiBH4 at lower temperature was demonstrated by admixing of SiO2 [14], and MgH2 [16]. Particularly, the addition of half a mole of MgH2 destabilizes the LiBH4 structure and enables the formation of intermediate meta-stable MgB2 alloy phase during the hydrogen release and absorption phases per the equation below [16].
MgH2 on the other hand, has a comparative hydrogen storage capacity of ~7.6 wt.%, at temperatures >325°C, however, the slow kinetics of reaction makes this metal hydride not usable for potential applications [5]. The role of different 3d transition metal catalysts for example, Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni [17, 18, 19, 20, 21] and transition metal oxide, namely, Nb2O5 [22, 23], has demonstrated greater reversibility of hydrogen from the magnesium lattice with faster kinetics hydrogen enabled applications.
A new ternary complex metal hydride Zn(BH4)2, was formulated for the low temperature hydrogen decomposition by reacting either NaBH4 or LiBH4 with ZnCl2 salt in a mechanochemical process at room temperature according to the Equation [24, 25].
Keeping the aforementioned metal hydrides and its salient characteristics, we have successfully synthesized new complex hydrides with combinations of LiBH4 and MgH2 for the formation of Zn substituted systems and catalysts assisted complex metal hydrides for reversible hydrogen storage and for vehicular on-board applications.
The various chemical compounds with purities (in parentheses) such as, ZnCl2 (99.999%), TiF3 (99.999%), nano-Ni (99.9%), nano-Zn (99 + %) are procured from Sigma-Aldrich. The binary and ternary metal hydrides such as LiBH4 (95%), MgH2 (98%) are purchased from Alfa Aesar. The high purity nano-Ni (99.999%) was purchased from QuantumSphere Inc. All the chemicals have been stored in a nitrogen filled glove box, used readily without further purification. A mechanochemical milling of the mixtures have been carried out in a Fritsch Pulversitte planetary mono mill P6 using 80 ml stainless steel bowl sealed with a specially designed lid with two scharder valves for inert or reactive gas purging. Various experimental parameters such as ball to powder weight ratio (20:1), milling speed (300 rpm), milling time (20 min. to 2 h) and milling medium (hydrogen purging, 1 atm for every 30 minutes of milling) were optimized. All the sample manufacturing and manipulation for both synthesis and characterization were done in a nitrogen filled glove box (Innovation Technology).
The thermogravimetric and the differential scanning calorimetric analyses were performed using the TA Instrument’s SDT-600 with alumina crucibles heated at 5°C/min in flow of nitrogen or argon ambient. The Universal Analysis software V4.0C was deployed to analyze the results obtained from the SDT. The reversible hydrogen absorption and desorption measurements have been carried out using Setaram’s PCTPro Sievert’s type instrument with pre-calibrated volumes with an accuracy of ∓1°C. A Lab View software program was used for data monitoring and recording, and the measurement analysis was executed using Hy-Analysis macros in the Igor program.
X-ray diffraction characterization was carried out using a Philips X’pert diffractometer with CuKα radiation of λ = 5.4060 Ǻ. The x-ray beam from the cathode ray tube was incident on the sample, via incident slit of 1o, a 10 mm beam mask and soller slit of 0.04 rad. The diffracted x-ray beam was received by the detector via the receiving slit, a 2o anti scatter slit and a monochromator. The collected XRD patterns were analyzed using the PANalytical X’pert Highscore software version 1.0e for phase identification and crystallite size distribution. A polyethylene clear plastic wrap (thin foil) was used to protect the samples from air and moisture by wrapping the sample holder completely with the thin foil which shows diffraction peaks in the 2θ range of 21–28o. The chemical environment of the complex metal hydrides, such as B-H stretches and BH2 deformation bands were explored using a Perkin Elmer’s FTIR spectrometer and the samples were specially prepared with KBr in nitrogen filled glove box.
Two different sets of complex metal hydrides have been studied in this work, one is with the mixture, 2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 with different catalysts and the other set related to destabilized materials LiBH4+ ½MgH2 + Xmol% ZnCl2 with different catalysts. The results of various physicochemical characterizations such TGA, DSC, XRD, FTIR and PCT are discussed for these two sets of complex metal hydrides in the following sub sections.
The complex metal hydride mixture, 2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 was prepared by hand mixing in ceramic mortar and via ball milling for different time duration under inert or reactive ambient. The obtained Zn(BH4)2 per the Eq. (3) was further treated with different catalysts doping. All these as-synthesized materials are then subjected to thermogravimetric and differential scanning calorimetric measurements (TGA-DSC or SDT). Table 1 represents the onset, and peak temperature of hydrogen decomposition from the complex metal hydride with total weight loss. From the Table 1, it is discernible that the pristine mixture 2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 milled shows lower hydrogen decomposition temperature by at least 25°C when compared to hand mix counterparts. Additionally, the nano-Ni doping concentration of at least 1–4 mol% on the complex metal hydride mixture shows temperature reduction of at least 15–20°C for the hydrogen release. Overall, the total gravimetric weight loss due to hydrogen decomposition at the peak temperature, ranges from 12 to 15 wt% of hydrogen was obtained for both undoped and doped complex metal hydride mixtures. The hand mix sample show the weight loss of 9.4 wt.% due to partial formation of Zn(BH4)2. The TGA and DSC profiles as shown in Figures 1 and 2 supports the Table 1 results.
Complex Hydride | On-set Temp. oC | Peak Temp. oC | Weight Loss. Wt% |
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2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 | 114.07 | 125.06 | 14.80 |
2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 + 1 mol% TiF3 | 114.13 | 129.21 | 14.92 |
2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 + 2 mol% TiF3 | 112.57 | 128.00 | 14.18 |
2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 + 2 mol% MgH2 | 113.96 | 128.11 | 13.70 |
2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 Hand mix | 138.69 | 150.50 | 9.435 |
2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 + 1 mol% nanoNi | 114.38 | 116.90 | 13.54 |
2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 + 2 mol% nanoNi | 110.38 | 113.00 | 14.73 |
2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 + 3 mol% nanoNi | 106.05 | 107.30 | 14.82 |
TGA-DSC measurements data of pristine and catalyst doped complex metal hydride mixture, 2LiBH4 + ZnCl2.
Thermogravimetric profiles of 2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 mixture with different catalysts (up to 4 mol%), such as TiF3, MgH2, nano-Ni.
Differential Scanning Calorimetric profiles of 2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 mixture with different catalysts (up to 3 mol%), such as TiF3, MgH2, nano-Ni.
A closer look of the TGA profiles (Figure 1), one can find a detailed observation as follows. Comparison between the metal hydride mixtures, LiBH4 + ½ ZnCl2 ball milled for 20 minutes shows greater hydrogen release at lower temperatures than the sample, 2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 hand mixed for 10 minutes, which emphasize the need of mechanical milling to complete the reaction stated in Eq. (3). Regarding the different concentrations of TiF3, 2 mol% reveals at least 0.5% more of hydrogen release and at temperatures at least 1°C lesser than the concentration 1 mol% TiF3. For the 2 mol% MgH2 doping, which showed similar performance like TiF3 dopant in terms of both thermal decomposition temperature and weight loss characteristics and are inferior to the pristine LiBH4 + ½ ZnCl2 mixture milled for 20 minutes. Nano-nickel on the other hand, doping with different concentrations, 1–4 mol%, demonstrated superior thermal decomposition behavior with 3 mol% as an optimum concentration as shown in Figure 1.
The DSC profiles as exhibited in Figure 2; the endothermic peaks are due to thermal hydrogen decomposition where the weight loss was observed in Figure 1. As it is mentioned that the partial reaction of the hand mixed compounds as noted earlier is supported well with the DSC studies in which there were two endo- peaks obtained, one may be due to the LiBH4 phase and other may be due to the partial Zn(BH4)2 phase. However, the ball milled samples show only one endo sharp peak, the area under this curve enhanced at lower temperatures, by nano-Ni catalyst doping as shown in Figure 2.
The x-ray diffraction patterns of all the samples listed in Table 1 are carried out with the similar experimental conditions and background parameters and are depicted in Figure 3. It is very well confirmed from the XRD profiles that the hand mix metal hydride samples show the existence of unreacted LiBH4 and ZnCl2. Whereas, the ball milled counterparts reveals the appearance of by-product, LiCl, thus the consumption or reaction of 2LiBH4 and ZnCl2 to produce a new Zn(BH4)2 compound, with unknown peak appeared at around 20.5o. For the catalysts, doped 2LiBH4 + ZnCl2, the peaks correspond to TiF3, or nano-Ni are not visible due to the low concentration (<4 mol%), and the XRD patterns were very similar to the pristine complex metal hydride ball milled for 20 minutes. The presence of LiCl phase affects the total hydrogen storage capacity reported in Table 1, because of the dead weight contribution from the LiCl. Overall, the XRD profiles of the complex metal hydrides supports the reaction (3) and the thermal characteristics as discussed above.
X-ray diffraction patters of 2LiBH4 + ZnCl2 mixture without and with different catalysts (1–4 mol% concentrations).
Based on the by-product LiCl appearance in the reaction discussed in Section 3.1 and to enhance the hydrogen storage capacity, the concentration of ZnCl2 was reduced in steps of few mol% on the LiBH4 + ½MgH2 complex metal hydride system. LiBH4 and MgH2 were ball milled (2 hours) together with 1:0.5 ratio and ZnCl2 have been admixed with different mol% concentrations to form complex composite hydride, LiBH + ½MgH2 + Xmol% ZnCl2 (X = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10). Figure 4 represents the XRD patterns of the complex metal hydride with different value of X. When X = 0, with no ZnCl2, the structure is more or less the mixture of LiBH4 and MgH2. However, if the value of X increases to 2 mol%, the appearance Zn peak and the reduction of LiBH4 relative intensity are observed. For X = 4, an unknown peak appears around 20.5o because of the reaction of LiBH4 and available Zn to form Zn(BH4)2 as per the Eq. (3) and hence the by-product formation of LiCl was inevitable. For the X value of 10 mol%, the LiBH4 phase and the pure Zn phase drastically reduced, however there was no changes in the MgH2 structural phase. Therefore, the XRD profiles confirm the Eq. (3) with concentration optimization of ZnCl2 which could further control the by-product LiCl formation. The Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopic profiles of LiBH4 + ½MgH2 + Xmol% ZnCl2 (X = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10) shows the presence of B-H stretch, at wavenumbers, 2276 cm−1 and 2213 cm−1 and another peak correspond to BH2 deformation band was observed at 1118 cm−1 and 1091 cm−1 due to LiBH4 (see Figure 5). These stretches were decreased in transmittance values when X increases from 2 to 10 mol%. No additional impurity peaks were observed.
XRD profiles of LiBH4 + ½MgH2 + Xmol% ZnCl2 ball milled for 30 min in reactive (H2) atmosphere.
FTIR of LiBH4 + ½MgH2 + Xmol% ZnCl2 (X = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10) ball milled for 30 min in reactive (H2) atmosphere.
The hydrogen absorption and desorption characteristics of LiBH4 + ½MgH2 + 2 mol% ZnCl2 was demonstrated using the PCT Sievert’s type apparatus. The hydrogen desorption experiments were performed at various temperatures, for example from 1 to 3 cycles at 250°C, 4–6 cycles at 300°C and 8–10 cycles at 350°C. As the temperatures increased from 250–350°C, the hydrogen storage capacity increases five-fold as shown in Figure 6. At the end of each desorption run, the sample was hydrogenated at high pressure, up to 40 atmosphere and at temperature of 200°C for several hours. The PCT isotherm of 11th desorption run at 350°C demonstrates the plateau pressure of hydrogen desorption, at around 4–5 bars and the storage capacity of ~3.0 wt.% (see Figure 7). Based on the aforementioned characteristics, these complex metal hydrides bearing light weight elements or compounds, for example LiBH4 and MgH2 with catalysts dopants may be considered as potential applications for clean energy or fuel (hydrogen) storage.
Desorption Data Collected on a PCT for LiBH4 + ½MgH2 + 2 mol% ZnCl2 Ball Milled 2 Hours Under H2 Ambient.
PCT Desorption at 250°C and 350°C for the mixture, LiBH4 + ½MgH2 + 2 mol% ZnCl2 Ball Milled 2 Hours Under H2 Ambient.
Two sets of complex metal hydrides comprising light weight elements and compounds have been prepared via solid state mechanochemical process. The transition metal chloride, for example, ZnCl2 addition to LiBH4 in the ratio of 1;2, ends up forming a new complex hydride, Zn(BH4)2 with thermal decomposition of hydrogen release at lower temperatures, <130°C and high hydrogen capacity >10 wt.%. The 1:0.5 ratio of LiBH4:MgH2 (and 2 mol% ZnCl2) in this complex structure thus destabilizes and maintain the plateau pressure, 4–5 atmospheres for the hydrogen desorption with total reversible hydrogen storage capacity ~3.0 wt.% at around 350°C. The structural and chemical characteristics of LiBH4 + ½MgH2 + 2 mol% ZnCl2 and other concentration variations, including catalytic doping via nano-Ni shows reversible hydrogen storage behavior.
The authors are grateful to the respective institutions, Florida Polytechnic University and University of South Florida for students’ support and research infrastructures. Funding sources, US Department of Energy, Florida Energy Systems Consortium and Hinkley Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management are gratefully acknowledged.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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