Recent developments in the fabrication, characterization and implementation of MgH₂-based solid-hydrogen materials in the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research

Abstract

Photos taken in November 2018 at NAM-EBRC, KISR, presenting the successful application of the use of a solid-state hydrogen storage nanocomposite for charging 8 batteries of an electric golf cart, using a 1000 W PEM-fuel cell.

Mechanically-Induced Catalyzation of MgH2 Powders with Zr2Ni-Ball Milling Media

“…It should be noted that this two-stage decomposition is not unique for MgH 2 prepared in the present work, but it has been reported by many authors [9,11,13,36].…”

“…In contrast to the many attractive properties found in MgH 2 material, it is seldomly used in desired fuel cell application without intensive treatment [6][7][8][9][10]. This is attributed to high activation energy, high decomposition temperature and slow absorption/desorption kinetics [11][12][13][14]. Severe plastic deformation (SPD) technique [15], including high energy ball milling [16], cold rolling (CRing) [17,18], high pressure torsion (HPT) [19] and equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) [20] were employed to improve the hydrogen storage properties of MgH 2 .…”

Synergistic Effect of New ZrNi5/Nb2O5 Catalytic Agent on Storage Behavior of Nanocrystalline MgH2 Powders

“…This low-cost energy material shows high volumetric (110 g/L) and gravimetric (7.6 wt%) storage capacity [7]. MgH 2 has a high enthalpy change of formation (−75 kJ/mol) and it tends to be decomposed at high temperature (above 300 • C), with very slow hydrogenation/dehydrogenation kinetics, in spite of these desired properties [8][9][10].…”

“…Within the last three decades, MgH 2 was targeted by a great number of catalysts that were employed to enhance its behavior. Pure metals, metal alloys and intermetallic compounds, metallic glasses, metal oxides, carbides, and fluorides are some examples of catalysts that were devoted to improve MgH 2 [5,[7][8][9][10].…”

Environmentally friendly nanocrystalline magnesium hydride decorated with metallic glassy-zirconium palladium nanopowders for fuel cell applications

“…1 The rapid population growth engaged with economic evolution led to a dramatic growth in fossil fuel consumption in both developed and advanced countries. [2][3][4] Accordingly, huge amounts of carbon dioxide and other harmful air pollutants, such as SO 2 and NO x , are emitted upon the burning of fossil fuels for power generation. 5 Recently, it has been pointed out by different authors that two dimensional materials, such as AlB 6 , 6 Cu 2 Si, 7 transition metal-phthalocyanine (TM-Pc) monolayers, 8 single atom catalyst TM-TCNQ monolayers, 9 transition metal porphyrin sheets, 10 and Mn-graphene single-atom, 11 have the potential capacity to catalytically remove gas molecules, such as CO 2 , SO 2 and NO x , or transform them to other species.…”