Microporous Carbonaceous Materials Incorporated with Metal (Ti, V and Zn) for Hydrogen Storage

Abstract:

The present research work is focused on the development and characterization of light weight microporous carbonaceous material, such as graphite (53150 micron) incorporated with either titanium n-butoxide, titanium diisopropoxide bis (2,4-pentanedionate), vanadium 2,4-pentane-dionate or zinc 2,4-pentanedionate having varying wt% of the metal (28%) using 2-propanol/ethanol as solvent at 4050 °C. The calcination has been carried out at 100, 150 and 200 °C, except the samples with titanium diisopropoxide bis (2,4-pentanedionate) which are calcined at 80 °C. FESEM along with atomic absorption studies revealed that the maximum incorporation of metals (Zn, V and Ti) in graphite has been observed with 4 wt% of zinc 2,4-pentanedionate calcined at 100 °C, 4 wt% of vanadium 2,4-pentanedionate calcined at 100 °C, 4 wt% of titanium n-butoxide calcined at 100 °C and 2 wt% of titanium diisopropoxide bis (2,4-pentanedionate) calcined at 80 °C, and equilibration time of 20-24 h has been used in each case. These samples may be used for hydrogen storage.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 755)
• Pages: 111-117
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.755.111
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: Mala Nath, Asheesh Kumar, Arijit Mallick
• Keywords: Carbonaceous Material, Hydrogen Storage, Metal-Organic Compounds, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)

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