Abstract
Perovskite-type borohydride, NH4Ca(BH4)3, is considered as a promising hydrogen storage material due to its high gravimetric hydrogen capacity (15.7 wt%). In this work, the dehydrogenation performance and reaction pathway of NH4Ca(BH4)3 have been systematically investigated. It is found that the initial decomposition temperature is only 65 °C, suggesting a low thermodynamic stability of NH4Ca(BH4)3. The desorption kinetics conducted by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) indicates that the activation energy of decomposition is about 226.1 kJ/mol. The dehydrogenation pathway of NH4Ca(BH4)3 characterized by fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) shows a stepwise decomposition process, in which the initial dehydrogenation is due to destabilization of H+ in NH4 and H- in BH4 followed by the subsequent dehydrogenation steps arising from the decomposition of homologous NH3BH3 and the final decomposition of Ca(BH4)2 at a high temperature, respectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 194-199 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Progress in Natural Science |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2018 |
Keywords
- Hydrogen storage materials
- Metal borohydride
- NHCa(BH)
- Perovskite
- Solid-state NMR