Ternary LiBH4–MgH2–NaAlH4 hydride confined into nanoporous carbon host for reversible hydrogen storage

Ternary hydride of LiBH₄–MgH₂–NaAlH₄ confined into carbo n aerogel scaffold (CAS) via melt infiltration for reversible hydrogen storage is proposed. Nanoconfinement of hydrides into CAS is obtained together with surface occupation of some phases, such as Al and/or LiH. Regarding nanoconfinement, not only multiple-step decomposition of LiBH₄–MgH₂–NaAlH₄ hydride reduces to about single step, but also reduction of dehydrogenation temperature is significantly observed, for example, ∆T up to 70 °C regarding last dehydrogenation step. Moreover, decomposition of NaBH₄ in nanoconfined sample can be done at 360 °C (dehydrogenation temperature in this study), which is 115 and 180 °C lower than that of NaBH₄ in milled LiBH₄–MgH₂–NaAlH₄ and bulk NaBH₄, respectively. The reaction of LiBH₄+NaAlH₄→LiAlH₄+NaBH₄ takes place during nanoconfinement and the decomposition of LiAlH₄ is observed, resulting deficient hydrogen content liberated. However, hydrogen content released (1st cycle) and reproduced (2nd–4th cycles) from this ternary hydride enhances up to 11% and 22% of full hydrogen storage capacity due to nanoconfinement. After rehydrogenation (T=360 °C and P(H₂)=50 bar H₂ for 12 h), NaBH₄, MgH₂, and Li₃AlH₆ are reversible, whereas Li₃AlH₆ and NaBH₄ in milled sample cannot be recovered due to deficient hydrogen pressure (T=360 °C and P(H₂)=80 bar) and probably evaporation of molten sodium during dehydrogenation, respectively. The latter results in inferior hydrogen content reproduced from milled sample to nanoconfined sample.     

Mechanism of the formation of peripheral coarse grain structure in hot extrusion of Al-4.5Zn-1Mg

Microstructural evolution leading to peripheral coarse grain (PCG) structure in hot extruded Al-4.5Zn-1Mg rods is investigated. The extent of dynamic recrystallization (DRX) in the as-extruded product falls not in line with the basis over which the existing mechanisms for interpretation of PCG formation are built. A new mechanism is therefore proposed based on partial DRX during extrusion and nucleation and abnormal growth of statically recrsystallised grains.     

Simultaneous determination of iron and aluminium by differential kinetic spectrophotometric method and chemometrics

A differential kinetic spectrophotometric method was researched and developed for the simultaneous determination of iron and aluminium in food samples. It was based on the direct reaction kinetics and spectrophotometry of these two metal ions with Chrome Azurol S (CAS) in ethylenediamine-hydrochloric acid buffer (pH 6.3). The results were interpreted with the use of chemometrics. The kinetic runs and the visible spectra of the complex formation reaction were studied between 540 and 750 nm every 30 s over a total period of 285 s. A set of synthetic metal mixture samples was used to build calibrations models. These were based on the spectral and kinetic two-way data matrices, which were processed separately by the radial basis function-artificial neural network (global RBF-ANN) method. The prediction performance of these models was poorer than that from the combined kinetic-spectral three-way array, which was similarly processed by the same method (% relative prediction error (RPE_T) = 5.6). These results demonstrate that improved predictions can be obtained from the data array, which has more information, and that appropriate chemometrics methods can enhance analytical performance of simple techniques such as spectrophotometry.Other chemometrics models were then applied: N-way partial least squares (NPLS), parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC), back propagation-artificial neural network (BP-ANN), single radial basis function-artificial neural network (RBF-ANN), and principal component neural network (PC-RBF-ANN). There was no substantial difference between the methods with the overall %RPE_T range being 5.0-5.8. These two values corresponded to the NPLS and BP-ANN models, respectively. The proposed method was applied for the determination of iron and aluminium in some commercial food samples with satisfactory results.     

光度法测定松脂中的铝

研究了用铝试剂,乙酸－乙酸铵缓冲溶液组织的体系以及光度法测定松脂微量铝的条件,提出了一种灵敏度、选择性与稳定性较好的测定松脂中铝的方法,在０－５０μｇ／５０ｍＬ范围内服从比耳定律。     

光电直读光谱仪同时测定金属铝中15个元素

本文研究了用光电直读光谱法同时测定金属铝中１５个元素的方法,对光源及测定条件进行了最佳选择,具有测定时间短,灵敏度、准确度高等优点。含量在０．１－１％之间,ＲＳＤ〈３％含量在０．００１－０．１％之间,ＲＳＤ〈６％;含量〈０．００１％,ＲＳＤ〈１４％,经与化学法比对,结果十分吻合。     

高能火花光源激发钢铁和铜合金中铝的看谱分析

采用高能火花光泊激钢铁和铜合金试样,借以进行铝的看谱分析,研究了在高能火花光源激发下光谱出现和其强度变化的规律以及以５６９．６５ｎｍ光谱区域的干扰情况。从而制 钢铁和铜合金中铝的看谱分析方法,并将其应用于生产实践中获得了令人满意的结果。是一种既经济简便及快速实用的分析测定方法 。