Zulkarnain Jalil, Adi Rahwanto, Erfan Handoko, Mustanir
Magnesium (Mg) is regarded as one of the candidate material for absorbing hydrogen, because theoretically, has the ability to absorb hydrogen in the large quantities (7.6 wt%). However, Mg has shortage, namely its kinetic reaction is very slow, it takes time to absorb hydrogen at least 60 minutes with very high operating temperatures (300-400°C). The aim of this study is to improve the hydrogen desorption temperature of Mg-based hydrogen storage material. In this work, we used nano-nickel (Ni) as catalyst in MgH2 and obtained by reactive mechanical milling method. The duration of milling was done in 2 hours (soft milling) with the 2?mol% Ni catalyst and milled under hydrogen atmosphere (10 bar). As the results, small amount of 2?mol% Ni in nanometer scale acts as a suitable catalyst for improvement the kinetics of MgH2 which could absorp 5.5 wt% of hydrogen within 10 minutes at 300°C. It is obvious that small amount has much better as catalyst in nanoparticle size and at the same time allowed to reduce the milling process in short time. © 2017 Author(s).
Department of Physics, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; Department of Physics, Jakarta State University (UNJ), Jakarta, 13220, Indonesia; Department of Chemistry, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia
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