A study on hydrogen uptake and release of a eutectic mixture of biphenyl and diphenyl ether

• 来源期刊: 能源化学
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（3）
• 页码范围: 11-16
• 页数: 6页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Hydrogen storage in Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) systems is appealing for the safe storage and distribution of excess renewable energy via existing gasoline infrastructures to end-users.We present the eutectic mixture of biphenyl and diphenyl ether of its first use as a.LOHC material.The material is hydrogenated with 99％ selectivity without the cleavage of C-O bond,with commercial heterogeneous catalysts,which is confirmed by nuclear magnetic spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.Equilibrium concentration,dehydrogenation enthalpy,and thermo-neutral temperature are calculated using a density functional theory.The results indicate that O-atom-containing material exhibits more favorable dehydrogenation thermodynamics than that of the hydrocarbon analogue.The H2-rich material contains 6.8 wt％ of gravimetric hydrogen storage capacity.A preliminary study of catalytic dehydrogenation on a continuous reactor is presented to demonstrate a reversibility of this material.