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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
卷 366, 期 -, 页码 178-184出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.09.041
关键词
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes; Functionalized-MWCNT catalyst; Metal free MWCNT catalyst; Alternative catalyst to metal catalyst; H-2 production; Methanolysis of NaBH4
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) are modified by acid treatments to obtain MWCNT-COOHs and used as metal free catalyst directly in H-2 generation from the methanolysis of sodium borohydride (NaBH4). The chemically modified MWCNT-COOHs are characterized with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) and zeta potential measurements. The H-2 generation reactions are proceeded at different reaction conditions to determine the optimum reaction parameters such as the concentration of NaBH4 and temperature, the reusability of catalyst, and the regeneration of catalyst. The MWCNT-COOHs are found to be very effective catalyst in comparison to the metal nanoparticle catalyzed H-2 generation reactions from the methanolysis of NaBH4. Thus, hydrogen generation rate (HGR) is calculated as 8766 +/- 477 mL H-2 g(-1) min(-1) for 500 mM NaBH4 in 20 mL methanol in presence of 50 mg MWCNT-COOH. Furthermore, the activation energy (Ea) for the methanolysis of NaBH4 in presence of MWCNT-COOHs is computed as 20.1 +/- 1.4 kJ mol(-1), comparable with most of the reported metal nanoparticle based catalyst in the literature. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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