High and rapid hydrogen release from thermolysis of ammonia borane near PEM fuel cell operating temperatures

Hyun Tae Hwang; Ahmad Al-Kukhun; Arvind Varma

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.10.088

High and rapid hydrogen release from thermolysis of ammonia borane near PEM fuel cell operating temperatures

Hyun Tae Hwang, Ahmad Al-Kukhun, Arvind Varma

Chemical and Materials Engineering

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Abstract

Ammonia borane (NH₃BH₃, AB), containing 19.6 wt % hydrogen, is a promising hydrogen storage material for use in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEM FC) powered vehicles. Our experiments demonstrate the highest H₂ yield (∼14 wt %, 2.15 H₂ equivalent) values obtained by neat AB thermolysis near PEM FC operating temperatures, along with rapid kinetics, without the use of either catalyst or additives. It was also found that only trace amount of ammonia (<10 ppm) is produced during dehydrogenation reaction and spent AB products are polyborazylene-like species, which can be efficiently regenerated using currently demonstrated methods. The results indicate that our proposed method is the most promising one available in the literature to-date for hydrogen storage, and could be used in PEM FC based vehicle applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2407-2411
Number of pages	5
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	37
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.10.088
State	Published - Feb 2012

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Department of Energy , under Grant Number DOE-FG36-06GO086050 to the Purdue University Energy Center. We thank Danni Gao for her help with characterization of solid samples.

Keywords

Ammonia borane
Dehydrogenation
Fuel cell
Hydrogen storage
Thermolysis

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Condensed Matter Physics
Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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High and rapid hydrogen release from thermolysis of ammonia borane near PEM fuel cell operating temperatures

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