Abstract
Thermal analysis methods - such as TGA, DSC analysis, DTA, and TDS analysis - have been used in many reports to determine the activation energy for hydride decomposition. In our preceding work, we showed that the dehydriding rate of Mg-5Ni samples obeyed the first-order law and the Kissinger equation could thus be used to determine the activation energy. In the present work, we used the Mg-5Ni samples after activation. We obtained Tm at different heating rates by finding the temperature at which the ratio of the desorbed hydrogen quantity Hd change to T change, dHd/dT, was the highest from the desorbed hydrogen quantity Hd versus temperature T curves. Tm’s at different heating rates were also obtained from points of inflection (Φ = dT/dt = 0) in temperature T versus time t curves. The activation energy for hydride decomposition was then calculated by applying Tm’s at different heating rates to the Kissinger equation.
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