Improvement in Hydriding and Dehydriding Features of Mg–TaF5–VCl3 Alloy by Adding Ni and x wt% MgH2 (x = 1, 5, and 10) Together with TaF5 and VCl3

Abstract

In our previous work, TaF5 and VCl3 were added to Mg, leading to the preparation of samples with good hydriding and dehydriding properties. In this work, Ni was added together with TaF5 and VCl3 to increase the reaction rates with hydrogen and the hydrogen-storage capacity of Mg. The addition of Ni together with TaF5 and VCl3 improved the hydriding and dehydriding properties of the TaF5 and VCl3-added Mg. MgH2 was also added with Ni, TaF5, and VCl3 and Mg-x wt% MgH2-1.25 wt% Ni-1.25 wt% TaF5-1.25 wt% VCl3 (x = 0, 1, 5, and 10) were prepared by reactive mechanical milling. The addition of MgH2 decreased the particle size, lowered the temperature at which hydrogen begins to release rapidly, and increased the hydriding and dehydriding rates for the first 5 min. Adding 1 and 5 wt% MgH2 increased the quantity of hydrogen absorbed for 60 min, Ha (60 min), and the quantity of hydrogen released for 60 min, Hd (60 min). The addition of MgH2 improved the hydriding–dehydriding cycling performance. Among the samples, the sample with x = 5 had the highest hydriding and dehydriding rates for the first 5 min and the best cycling performance, with an effective hydrogen-storage capacity of 6.65 wt%.

Fast Hydrogen Sorption Kinetics in Mg-VCl3 Produced by Cryogenic Ball-Milling

“…Other V-containing compounds have improved the hydriding/dehydriding of Mg/MgH 2 [ 15 , 21 , 22 , 23 ]. In particular, the addition of VCl 3 [ 24 , 25 , 26 ] resulted in quick sorption kinetics [ 27 , 28 , 29 ]. A survey on the Web of Science on the topics Mg or MgH 2 , VCl 3 , and hydrogen storage produced only 12 published papers.…”

“…Of them, three used VCl 3 as a co-catalyst; and in the other three, the MgH 2 was mixed with other hydrogen storage materials. Of the papers on MgH 2 -VCl 3 [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ], the information on kinetics or thermodynamics is incomplete, as we detail in the discussion section. In comparison, a survey in the same database of MgH 2 , Nb 2 O 5 , and hydrogen storage produced 272 papers.…”