Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 11-16 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Energy Chemistry |
Volume | 42 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 Mar |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Changes of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning (2015M1A2A2074688), KISTI-HPC (KSC-2018-CRE-0022) for computational resources, as well as the KIST institutional program funded by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (2E29610).
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Changes of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning ( 2015M1A2A2074688 ), KISTI-HPC (KSC-2018-CRE-0022) for computational resources, as well as the KIST institutional program funded by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology ( 2E29610 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Science Press and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Keywords
- Dehydrogenation
- Diphenyl ether
- Hydrogen storage
- Liquid organic hydrogen carrier
- Thermodynamics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Fuel Technology
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Energy (miscellaneous)
- Electrochemistry