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Magnesium and iron loaded hollow glass microspheres (HGMs) for hydrogen storage

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Title Magnesium and iron loaded hollow glass microspheres (HGMs) for hydrogen storage
 
Creator DALAI, S
VIJAYALAKSHMI, S
SHARMA, P
CHOO, KY
 
Subject Metal loaded hollow glass microspheres (HGMs)
Hydrogen storage
Amber glass
Flame spheroidisation
Magnesium oxide
Iron oxide
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Description The development of a safe and efficient method for hydrogen storage is essential for the use of hydrogen with fuel cells for vehicular applications. Hollow glass microspheres (HGMs) have characteristics suitable for hydrogen storage and are expected to be a potential hydrogen carrier to be used for energy release applications. The HGMs with 10 -100 mu m diameters, 100-1000 angstrom pore width and 3-8 mu m wall thicknesses are expected to be useful for hydrogen storage. In our research we have prepared HGMs from amber glass powder of particle size 63-75 mu m using flame spheroidisation method. The HGMs samples with magnesium and iron loading were also prepared to improve the heat transfer property and thereby increase the hydrogen storage capacity of the product. The feed glass powder was impregnated with calculated amount of magnesium nitrate hexahydrate salt solution to get 0.2-3.0 wt% Mg loading on HGMs. Required amount of ferrous chloride tetrahydrate solution was mixed thoroughly with the glass feed powder to prepare 0.2-2 wt% Fe loaded HGMs. Characterizations of all the HGMs samples were done using FEG-SEM, ESEM and FTIR techniques. Adsorption of hydrogen on all the Fe and Mg loaded HGMs at 10 bar pressure was conducted at room temperature and at 200 degrees C, for 5 h. The hydrogen adsorption capacity of Fe loaded sample was about 0.56 and 0.21 weight percent for Fe loading 0.5 and 2.0 weight percentage respectively. The magnesium loaded samples showed an increase of hydrogen adsorption from 1.23 to 2.0 weight percentage when the magnesium loading percentage was increased from 0 to 2.0. When the magnesium loading on HGMs was increased beyond 2%, formation of nano-crystals of MgO and Mg was seen on the HGMs leading to pore closure and thereby reduction in hydrogen storage capacity. Copyright (C) 2014, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
 
Date 2014-12-28T18:02:00Z
2014-12-28T18:02:00Z
2014
 
Type Article
 
Identifier INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY, 39(29)16451-16458
0360-3199
1879-3487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.03.062
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/17056
 
Language English