Hydrogen generation by hydrolysis of Mg-Mg2Si composite and enhanced kinetics performance from introducing of MgCl2 and Si |
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Authors: | Zhenhua Tan Liuzhang Ouyang Jiangwen Liu Hui Wang Huaiyu Shao Min Zhu |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Storage Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, People''s Republic of China;2. China-Australia Joint Laboratory for Energy & Environmental Materials, Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510641, People''s Republic of China;3. Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME), University of Macau, Macau SAR, China |
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Abstract: | This paper reported the performance and mechanism of hydrogen generation via hydrolysis of ball-milled Mg-Mg2Si composite (5.3 wt % Si-94.7 wt % Mg) in deionized water and in MgCl2 solution. The results showed that the obtained Mg-Mg2Si composite presented relatively higher hydrogen generation performance than pure magnesium. Adoption of 0.5 M MgCl2 solution to replace deionized water sufficiently and vastly enhanced the hydrolysis properties of the Mg-Mg2Si composite. The composite in 0.5 M MgCl2 solution generated 445 mL/g hydrogen in 5 min, 688 mL/g hydrogen in 10 min and 889 mL/g hydrogen (conversion rate 99%) in 40 min at 328 K. This remarkable improvement is due to that the addition of Si element in the composite and the introduction of MgCl2 in solution, as well as the special preparation process of the materials, could decrease the formation of continuous magnesium hydroxide passive layer on the particle surface, directly or indirectly. Moreover, the apparent activation energies for composite hydrolysis in deionized water, in 0.5 and 2.0 M MgCl2 solution were calculated to be 30.1 ± 0.6, 9.5 ± 0.1 and 3.7 ± 0.2 kJ/mol, respectively. This work demonstrates that the hydrogen generation system based on low-cost and high-performance Mg-Mg2Si composite is very applicable and promising; and it may open a new avenue for onsite hydrogen supply. |
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Keywords: | Hydrogen generation Magnesium chloride Hydrolysis |
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