Sustainable hydrogen production via LiH hydrolysis for unmanned air vehicle (UAV) applications

Martin Khzouz; Evangelos Gkanas; Alesandro Girella; Thomas Statheros; Chiara  Milanese

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.05.189

Sustainable hydrogen production via LiH hydrolysis for unmanned air vehicle (UAV) applications

Martin Khzouz, Evangelos Gkanas, Alesandro Girella, Thomas Statheros, Chiara Milanese

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Abstract

In the current study, an experimental approach for the further understanding of the LiH hydrolysis reaction for hydrogen production is considered. The experimental work has been undertaken under small scale conditions by utilising fixed bed reactors. The hydrolysis reaction has been studied at several oven temperatures (150 C, 300 C and 500 C). The favourable driving potentials for the hydrolysis reactions were identified by the utilisation of the Gibbs free energy analysis. The main outcome of the study is the deceleration of the reaction pace due to the formation of the by-product layers during the reaction. At the initial stage, due to the contact of steam with the unreacted and fresh LiH surface, the reaction proceeds on a fast pace, while the formation of the layers tends to decelerate the diffusion of steam into the core of material, forcing the production step to be slower.
The hydrogen yield was found to be more than 90% of the theoretical value for all the reaction temperatures. Finally, a scenario of a hybrid-electric propulsion system for Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) including Li-ion battery, Proton Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) and an on-board hydrogen production system based on LiH hydrolysis is introduced and studied.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5384-5394
Number of pages	11
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	45
Issue number	8
Early online date	22 Jun 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.05.189
Publication status	Published - 14 Feb 2020

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45:8 (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.05.189

© 2020, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Keywords

Hydrogen generator
Hydrogen production
LiH hydrolysis
Metal hydrides
Steam hydrolysis
Unmanned aerial vehicles

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Condensed Matter Physics
Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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Sustainable hydrogen production via LiH hydrolysis for unmanned air vehicle (UAV) applications

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