RELEASING HYDROGEN FROM NABH4 VIA HYDROGEL BASED CoF2 CATALYST

Abstract

In this paper, the dehydrogenation reaction of NaBH4 was performed in the presence of Co-ion loaded hydrogel catalyst. The reactions took place within 27, 18 and 9 hours at 25, 35 and 45 °C, respectively. In addition, the relation between the initial concentration of NaBH4 and released hydrogen was investigated at 45°C. A linear relationship between initial borohydride concentration and produced H2 was determined. Also, differential method was used to determine reaction rate constants and rate order. Hence, first-order-kinetics was proved by using experimental data. After that, the activation energy was found as 58.26 kJ/mol by means of the slope of the graph of lnk versus 1/T for the dehydrogenation reaction. This value is nearly equal to 50kJ/mol, which was expected in literature for the studies of the catalytic dehydrogenation. As the hydrophilic and macroporous structure of the prepared poly(acrylamide-co-acrylic acid) (p(AAm-co-AAc)-Co) hydrogel catalyst allowed inlet of NaBH4 solution up to its interior and release of produced H2, effect of pore diffusion limitation was neglected. Dehydrogenation index of NaBH4 was calculated as 2526.31 mL H2/g NaBH4 according to the amount of NaBH4 in the aqueous solution