CA2150841C - Method for the preparation of magnesium hydride - Google Patents

Method for the preparation of magnesium hydride

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CA2150841C
CA2150841C CA002150841A CA2150841A CA2150841C CA 2150841 C CA2150841 C CA 2150841C CA 002150841 A CA002150841 A CA 002150841A CA 2150841 A CA2150841 A CA 2150841A CA 2150841 C CA2150841 C CA 2150841C
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Wilfried Knott
Wolfgang Rupilius
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    • C07HSUGARS; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; NUCLEIC ACIDS
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    • C01B6/00Hydrides of metals including fully or partially hydrided metals, alloys or intermetallic compounds ; Compounds containing at least one metal-hydrogen bond, e.g. (GeH3)2S, SiH GeH; Monoborane or diborane; Addition complexes thereof
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Abstract

A method for the preparation of magnesium hydride in the presence of a catalyst for the absorbing of hydrogen with hydride formation is desired where finely dispersed, highly reactive magnesium is added as catalyst to the finely divided magnesium that is to be hydrogenated and the hydrogenation is carried out at a temperature of 250 °C and a pressure of 0.5 to 5 MPa.

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MET~IOD FOR THE PREPARATION OF
~ N~SIIlM HYDRIDE

The invention relates to a method for the preparation of magnesium hydride, which can be used particularly in active magnesium hydride/magnesium/hydrogen storage systems, that absorb hydrogen reversibly.

of the metal hydride/metal systems, which come into consideration as reversible hydrogen storage systems, the MgH2-Mg system is distinguished by the highest proportion by weight of reversibly bound hydrogen (7.65~ by weight) and, with that, the highest energy density per unit weight of the storage material (2,332 Wh/~g).

Up to now, the unsatisfactory kinetics of this system stood in the way of the use of such storage systems for mobile purposes. For example, it is known that pure magnesium can be hydrogenated only under drastic conditions and even then only very slowly and incompletely.

Attempts have therefore been made to improve the ability to hydrogenate magnesium by doping or alloying the magnesium with foreign metals, such as Al, In, Fe, Mg2Ni, Mg2Cu or LaNi5. Admittedly, it was possible to achieve improvements by NY2-35810.1 _ these means with respect to the kinetics. However, important disadvantages remained, such as the need for drastic conditions for the first hydrogenation of the doped magnesium. Moreover, the storage capacities of such systems was less than the theoretically expected value.

Starting out from this state of the art, the European patent 0 112 548 is concerned with the problem of improving the magnesium hydride/magnesium/hydrogen storage system and, in particular, with improving doping. The European patent 0 112 548 teaches a method of the above-described class with the disting~ h;ng feature that magnesium hydride or metallic magnesium is reacted in a very finely dispersed form by contact with a solution of a metal complex and/or an organometallic compound of a metal of the 6th to 8th subsidiary group of the periodic system, optionally in the presence of hydrogen, the respective transition metal being deposited at the surface of the magnesium hydride and/or magnesium particles.

However, it is a disadvantage of this method that metal complexes or organometallic compounds have to be used, which generally are expensive, and frequently are dangerous to handle and/or are toxic. Such a method is therefore not entirely satisfactory for economic and environmental reasons as well as with respect to sources of danger for the personnel charged with carrying out the method.

NY2-35810.1 21S08~1 -~he German Of ~enlegungsschr~ ft ~0 39 ~78 te~c:hes a ~ethod for h~ltc~."enating ma~nesium, ~or Which ~agnesiu;~ hydride wlth a pa~ticle ~:iz~ of ~ 400 ~m ~c added in an amount of ~t least 1.~ by w~ight, based on the magnes~u~ to ~e ~l~.lro~enated, as cataly~t to the f~nely divided magnesium tnat ~a to ~e hydrogenat~d and the hydroqenation is carried out at a temperaturQ o~ 2 250~C and a pressure of 4.5 to ~ MPa by constant st~rring.

By the~ ~eans, the re~ulting ~agne6ium hydride i5 obtained a~ a finely divided, flowable, ~eadily handled product.
q~he hyd~ nation r~action itself i~ promoted by th~ ~irrin~.

Tl~ ~asi~ o~ thls me~hod i~ th~t ~in~ly dividQd ~agn~ium hydrlde, when added to the magnesium that is to be hyd~G~nated, exerts an autocatalytic ef~ect.

Surpri~ingly, it ha~ now been fo~nd that an add~t~on of f~nely di~per~d, bighly reac~ve magn~sium to ordinary ~agnesium powd~r permitR ~h~ latter to b~ hydrogen~ted in an advantageou~
manner~ In other words, the addition of a catalytia amount of finely disper~e~, highly reaotlve ma~nesi~ indu~s the cimpl~
hydro~enation of a ~ommercial magnesium.

NY2-35810. 1 8 4 ~ ~

One object of the present invention i8 to provide a method for preparing an active magnesium hydride-magnesium hydro~en storage ~ystem, which reversibly absorb~
hydrogen, comprising:
adding 1% to 10% by weight of a finely di6persed, highly reactive magnesium as a catalyst to fin~ly disper~ed magne~ium to be hydrogenated; and hydrogenating at a temperature of at least 250 C at a pressure of O.5 to 5 MPa while stirring constantly.

Amounts of 1 to 10 and preferably 2 to 5% by weight, based on the magnesium to be hydrogenated, are adequate here.

Optionally, the highly reactive magnesium can be produced in situ.

The concept of finely dispersed, highly reactive magnesium comprises activated forms of metallic magnesium, which can be produced by numerous methods known in the art, for example, by the method of the German Offenlegungsschrift 33 40 492, from magnesium hydride, magnesium anthracene and/or its derivatives or magnesium butadiene and/or its alkyl or phenyl NY2-35810.1 - 21508~1 '_ derivatives by thermal decomposition. The German Offenle~u~ schrift 33 40 492 teaches that these activated forms of metallic magnesium are suitable for the reversible production of active magnesium hydride under moderate conditions of pressure and temperature. This highly reactive magnesium differs completely-from conventional commercial magnesium particularly with respect to the hydrogenation conditions that are to be employed, so that the hydrogen absorption is reported already at 150~C under normal pressure.

As a modification of the thermal decomposition of magnesium anthracene to highly reactive magnesium, the possibility of decomposing it with the help of ultrasound is pointed out by J. Treber (Thesis, Kaiserlautern (1989)).

K. J. Klabunde et al. (J. Organomet. Chem., 71, 309-13 (1974)) describe the production of highly reactive magnesium by atomic vaporization.

R. C. Fuson (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 79, 928 (1957)) confirms the possibility of obtaining a reactive magnesium by intensive grind ing .

According to R. D. Rieke, magnesium can be obtained in an active form by reducing magnesium halides with alkali metals, particularly with potassium in tetrahydrofuran (THF) (Acc. Chem.

NY2-35810.1 6 Res., 10, 301 (1977)) or 1,2-dimethoxyethane, optionally with the addition of naphthalene as electron transfer agent (Arnold &
Kullenovi'c, Synth. Commun., 7, 223 (1977); Rieke et al., J. Org.
Chem., 46, 4323 (1981)).

The possibility of easily hydrogenating highly reactive, finely dispersed forms of magnesium is state of the art. All the more surprising is the observation that the addition of a catalytic amount of highly reactive magnesium metal makes the technically simple hydrogenation of conventional, commercial magnesium powder possible.

A preferred form of the inventive method described here lies in initiating the hydrogenation of magnesium by adding an active magnesium metal, which was obtained previously by dehydrogenating magnesium hydride, in catalytic amounts, the genesis of this magnesium hydride being of subordinate importance.

The method fulfills the aforementioned conditions in that it is economic, does not have an adverse impact on the environment and does not require larger amounts of organometallic complexes or compounds.

Although the inventive method resorts to using a small amount of partly highly pyrophoric magnesium metal as catalyst NY2-35810.1 21~08~1 ~, for hydrogenating conventional commercial magnesium, the finely divided magnesium hydride obtained is a non-pyrophoric powder, which can be handled well.

The inventive method is explained in greater detail by means of the following Example, it is understood that the Example is provided by way of illustration and not by way of limitation:

Example Magnesium powder (Aluma, Grade S, 2845 g, 117 moles), with an average particle size of less than 75 ~m, is added to a 16 L pressure reactor under a blanket of argon. To determine the essential hydrogenation parameters, the pressure reactor is connected to a multichannel recorder. A highly active, pyrophoric magnesium powder (56.9 g, 2.3 moles), produced according to the method of the German Offenlegungsschrift 33 40 492, is added while strictly maintaining inert gas conditions.
The reactor is closed off and evacuated to a pressure of 133 Pa with the help of an oil pump. Hydrogen is then admitted to the pressure tank up to a pressure of 4.0 bar and the tank is closed off and heated with constant stirring of the solid bed to 350~C.
After 5~ hours of heating, the maximum pressure, which had built up to 9.8 bar due to the higher temperature, decreases slowly and drops to 3.3 bar after a further hour. A constant pressure of 10 bar hydrogen is applied to the reactor. This causes the internal NY2--35810.1 ~ 5 Q 8 4 temperature to rise markedly. The hydrogenation kinetics can be followed by measuring the pressure drop per unit time, hydrogen absorptions of 1.7 bar per minute being attained. As the reaction declines, the hydrogenation rate decreases, as does the evolution of heat, which is associated therewith. Stirring is continued overnight. After the reactor has cooled off, the pressure is relieved and 3088 g of a freely flowing magnesium hydride, which is not pyrophoric, is obtained from the bottom outlet.

The hydride content of a sample is determined gas volumetrically by the method of Zh. Neorgh. Khim, 6, 1961, by decomposition with H2CrO4. The hydride content is determined to be 6.95%.

Although embodiments of the invention have been described above, it i~ not limited thereto and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that numerous modifications form part of the present invention insofar as they do not depart from the spirit, nature and scope of the claimed and described invention.

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Claims (2)

1. A method for preparing an active magnesium hydride-magnesium hydrogen storage system, which reversibly absorbs hydrogen, comprising:
adding 1% to 10% by weight of a finely dispersed, highly reactive magnesium as a catalyst to finely dispersed magnesium to be hydrogenated; and hydrogenating at a temperature of at least 250°C at a pressure of 0.5 to 5 MPa while stirring constantly.
2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said finely dispersed, highly reactive magnesium is added in an amount of 2% to 5% by weight.
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