Abstract
The methanol and water solvents were used for the production of hydrogen from potassium borohydride. In addition, phosphoric acid was selected as the green catalyst so that this semi-methanolysis reaction would be more effective for the first time. The semi-methanolysis of potassium borohydride is investigated depend on potassium borohydride, phosphoric acid concentrations and temperatures. The maximum normalized hydrogen production rate obtained from this semi-methanolysis reaction with 1 M phosphoric acid as a catalyst was 5779 ml min −1 g−1. In addition, this semi-methanolysis reaction was completed in 5 s. Kinetic studies have been carried out with the power law kinetic model. The activation energy obtained for this semi-methanolysis reaction is 1.45 kJ mol−1.
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