Performance of carbon hydrogen storage materials as a function of post-production thermal treatment

High-surface-area activated carbons for hydrogen storage were investigated as a function of post-synthesis surface treatment. Thermal treatment of the initial carbon in high vacuum at temperatures 200-1000 C leads to materials with significantly different surface chemistries and hydrogen storage cap...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Dohnke, E. (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Romanos, J. (author), Beckner, M. (author), Burress, J.W. (author), Yu, P. (author), Pfeifer, P. (author)
التنسيق: conferenceObject
منشور في: 2012
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11418
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012APS..MARW33008D
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الملخص:High-surface-area activated carbons for hydrogen storage were investigated as a function of post-synthesis surface treatment. Thermal treatment of the initial carbon in high vacuum at temperatures 200-1000 C leads to materials with significantly different surface chemistries and hydrogen storage capacities. Results from nitrogen pore-structure analyses, FT-IR spectroscopy before and after the treatment, and thermogravimetric analysis and mass spectroscopy of volatile reaction products during treatment, are reported. For treatment at 600 C, excess hydrogen adsorption at 80 K and 303 K is found to be 20-30% higher than for the untreated sample. At temperatures below 450 C, volatiles are mostly water and air; volatiles above 450 C are mostly carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. The results are interpreted as that high-temperature treatment produces materials with a large fraction of high-binding-energy sites.