Zulkarnain Jalil, Adi Rahwanto, Hizir Sofyan, Mustafa Usman, Erfan Handoko
Magnesium (Mg) as one of the potential candidate material for absorbing hydrogen, because theoretically has the ability to absorb large quantities of hydrogen 7,6 wt%. However, the kinetic reaction of Mg is very slow. Its takes 60 minutes to adsorp hydrogen with the operating temperature (adsorb/desorb) high of 350°C. Therefore, in this study discusses the hydrogen storage materials based on MgH2-SiO2. The purpose of this study to improve desorption temperature of hydrogen storage system based on MgH2. The main material is MgH2 combined with inserting SiO2 catalyst was successfully extracted from quartz sand with coprecipitation method. As for the material preparation process is done with the technique of mechanical alloying. Milling MgH2+SiO2 samples using a ball milling for 5 hours, with the ratio of ball to powder 10:1 and a speed of 400 rpm. By variation of the catalyst insertion of 1 wt%, 3 wt%, and 5 wt% of SiO2. The results of XRD measurement known that the sample was reduced to scale nanocrystal. Phase arising from the result of XRD observation are MgH2 phase as the main phase, and SiO2 phase as a minor phase. DSC testing results show that the lowest desorption temperature obtained on the sample with the addition of inserts weight of the catalyst 5 wt% SiO2 has milling for 5 hours which is equal 307,11°C. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; Department of Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Jakarta State University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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