Analysis on Behavior of Hydrogen in Ion-Plated Pure Aluminum

Abstract:

An increasing interest has been being taken in hydrogen as a clean energy for solving the global environmental problems. In order to use the hydrogen in safety, investigation on the hydrogen behavior is required. Although hydrogen microprint technique (HMPT) has been known to be effective to investigate the hydrogen behavior, the low detection efficiency for hydrogen was reported. Ion-plating (IP) was reported to increase the detection efficiency in HMPT emitted from the specimen by plastic deformation. On the other hand, no such increase was found for hydrogen permeating through the specimen ion-plated with substrate heating in the previous study by the authors. In the present study, the sheet samples of pure aluminum with 99.99% purity were dehydrogenated and subjected to (a) holding in the IP chamber, (b) bombardment with Ar ions, (c) substrate heating after the bombardment and (d) holding in air. Hydrogen behavior in these samples has been investigated by means of thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS). The amount of desorbed hydrogen was evidently larger in the conditions of (a) and (b) than in (d). However, the amount of desorbed hydrogen was decreased by the substrate heating (c) to the same level as in (d).

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 409)
• Pages: 47-50
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.409.47
• Online since: November 2011
• Authors: Hideki Iwahashi, Goroh Itoh, Katsuhiro Saitoh, Takahiro Shikagawa
• Keywords: Hydrogen Microprint Technique, Ion-Plating, Pure Aluminum, Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy

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