Background
Energy is indispensable for human survival and development. With the progress of human society and the improvement of living standard, the demand of energy is increasing, and people are aware that limited fossil energy such as oil, natural gas and the like is consumed in the last day, so that people are forced to try to find a renewable clean energy.
Since the first proposal of hydrogen storage alloys in 1958, hydrogen storage alloys have received wide attention worldwide due to their high energy density, good cycle stability, good performance at high rates, and their non-environmental pollution. The nickel-hydrogen battery is a high-energy green secondary battery with hydrogen storage alloy as negative electrode material. Has excellent electrochemical performance and outstanding environmental compatibility and safety performance. The rapid rise of the lithium ion battery has a certain impact on the development of the MH/Ni battery, but the MH/Ni battery is still an ideal power source of the hybrid electric vehicle. Currently, research and development of new high energy density batteries has been a hot topic in the field of MH/Ni battery research. The technical key for improving the performance of the MH/Ni battery is the negative hydrogen storage alloy material.
At present, most of electrode materials in the market have fast capacity attenuation, the discharge capacity is greatly influenced by temperature, and even some batteries have poor high-rate discharge performance.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides the BFe-C/LaY which has simple preparation method, good discharge capacity and can obviously improve a composite system for solving the technical problems in the prior art2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5A hydrogen storage alloy composite material and a preparation method thereof.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems in the prior art is as follows: a preparation method of a hydrogen storage alloy composite material comprises the following experimental steps:
the method comprises the following steps: preparation LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5Alloy powder
According to LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5Placing the pure metals into a smelting furnace for smelting according to the mass ratio of the alloy, wherein the pure metals are sequentially placed from bottom to top from the lower melting point to the higher melting point, then naturally cooling in the furnace to form an alloy ingot, mechanically crushing the alloy ingot and grinding the alloy ingot into powder of less than 200 meshes to obtain LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5Alloying powder;
step two: preparation of BFe-C composite
Taking 99.9% of BFe alloy and citric acid in a ball milling tank according to the proportion of 1: 1-5, then placing the mixture in a ball milling machine for ball milling, wherein the effective ball milling time is 330-390 minutes, completely taking out a sample after ball milling, placing the sample in a porcelain boat, placing the porcelain boat in a tubular furnace filled with argon atmosphere, heating to 850 ℃ and keeping constant temperature for 360 minutes to enable the citric acid to be oxidized and decomposed into carbon, coating C outside the BFe material, and then naturally cooling to room temperature in the furnace to obtain BFe-C;
step three: preparation of BFe-C/LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5Composite hydrogen storage alloy material
According to BFe-C and LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5Putting the alloy powder into a ball mill according to the mass ratio of 1-15: 100 for ball milling to prepare BFe-C/LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5A composite hydrogen storage alloy material.
The invention has the advantages and positive effects that:
1. the invention provides a preparation method of carbon-coated BFe for the first time;
2. compared with the existing hydrogen storage alloy, the BFe-C/La-Y-Ni hydrogen storage alloy prepared by the invention has better discharge capacity and also shows excellent discharge performance at high temperature;
3. the cost is low, the preparation process is simple, and industrialization is easy to realize.
Preferably: in the first step, argon is used as protective gas in the smelting furnace, and the alloy is turned over three times in the furnace.
Preferably: and in the ball milling process in the second step, small balls are used for ball milling, the ball material ratio is 1: 10-20, argon is used as protective gas in a ball milling tank, each ball milling time is 10 minutes, and the ball mill is cooled for 5 minutes.
Preferably: and in the third step, argon is used as protective gas for ball milling, and the effective ball milling time is 30 minutes.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. The following description of at least one exemplary embodiment is merely illustrative in nature and is in no way intended to limit the invention, its application, or uses. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
The relative arrangement of the components and steps, the numerical expressions and numerical values set forth in these embodiments do not limit the scope of the present invention unless specifically stated otherwise. In all examples shown and discussed herein, any particular value should be construed as merely illustrative, and not limiting. Thus, other examples of the exemplary embodiments may have different values.
First, some terms or terms appearing in the description of the embodiments of the present application are applicable to the following explanations:
the purity of lanthanum (La), yttrium (Y), nickel (Ni), manganese (Mn), aluminum (Al) and BFe alloy powder used in the experiment is 99.9%, and the purity of citric acid is 99.5%.
Example 1
Press LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5Preparing materials according to the stoichiometric ratio of a molecular formula, placing metals such as La, Y, Ni, Mn, Al and the like (the purity is higher than 99.9%) into a smelting furnace from bottom to top in sequence from low to high in melting point, cooling and protecting a copper crucible by using circulating water, carrying out arc smelting in an argon atmosphere, and then naturally smelting in the furnaceCooling to form alloy ingot, circularly turning the alloy in a furnace for three times to ensure the uniformity of the alloy, naturally cooling the smelted alloy, taking out, grinding and crushing the alloy by using an agate mortar, and sieving the crushed alloy by using a 200-mesh sieve to obtain LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5And (3) alloying powder.
Taking 99.9% of BFe alloy and citric acid according to the weight ratio of 1: placing the mixture in a ball milling tank according to the proportion of 1, then placing small balls with the ball material ratio of 1:15 in the ball milling tank, introducing protective gas argon into the ball milling tank, placing the ball milling tank in a high-energy ball mill, and setting the effective ball milling time of the ball milling process to be 360 minutes. To avoid overheating the sample, the machine was cooled for 5 minutes for 10 minutes per ball mill. And (3) completely taking out the sample after ball milling, placing the sample into a porcelain boat, placing the porcelain boat into a tube furnace filled with argon atmosphere, heating to 850 ℃, keeping the constant temperature for 360 minutes, and naturally cooling to room temperature in the furnace to obtain the C-coated BFe alloy-BFe-C.
According to BFe-C and LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5The alloy powder with the mass ratio of 5:100 is placed in a ball milling tank, argon is used as protective gas for ball milling, the effective ball milling time is 30 minutes, the alloy powder and the protective gas are uniformly mixed, and the prepared BFe-C/LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5A composite hydrogen storage alloy material.
The alloy powder is pressed into tablets to prepare a simulation battery for testing the electrochemical performance. Electrochemical properties, including fade performance, maximum capacity, were tested with a DC-5 cell tester. Wherein the maximum capacity and the activation performance are tested when the charging current density and the discharging current density are both 60 mA/g.
By combining the attached drawings 1 and 2, the maximum discharge capacity of the BFe-C composite material added with 5 wt% in the first circulation is reached, and the maximum discharge capacity is 314.5mAh/g and is 258.1mAh/g higher than that of the reference alloy; wherein, the discharge capacity of the hydrogen storage alloy added with 5 wt% of BFe-C composite material in 100 circles is 131mAh/g respectively, which is still higher than 122mAh/g of the reference alloy in 100 circles; the discharge capacity at 29.85-59.85 ℃ of the BFe-C composite material added with 5 wt% is higher than that of the reference alloy. Therefore, the maximum discharge capacity and the high-temperature discharge capacity of the BFe-C composite material added with 5 wt% are improved.
Example 2
Press LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5Preparing materials according to a stoichiometric ratio of a molecular formula, placing metals such as La, Y, Ni, Mn, Al and the like (the purity is higher than 99.9%) into a smelting furnace from bottom to top in sequence from low to high in melting point, cooling the metals in a protected copper crucible by circulating water, carrying out electric arc smelting in an argon atmosphere, naturally cooling the metals in the furnace to form an alloy ingot, circularly turning the alloy in the furnace for three times in order to ensure the uniformity and uniformity of the alloy, naturally cooling and taking out the smelted alloy, grinding and crushing the alloy by using an agate mortar, and sieving the alloy by using a 200-mesh sieve to obtain LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5And (3) alloying powder.
Taking 99.9% of BFe alloy and citric acid according to the weight ratio of 1: placing the mixture in a ball milling tank according to the proportion of 1, then placing small balls with the ball material ratio of 1:15 in the ball milling tank, introducing protective gas argon into the ball milling tank, placing the ball milling tank in a high-energy ball mill, and setting the effective ball milling time of the ball milling process to be 360 minutes. To avoid overheating the sample, the machine was cooled for 5 minutes for 10 minutes per ball mill. And (3) completely taking out the sample after ball milling, placing the sample into a porcelain boat, placing the porcelain boat into a tube furnace filled with argon atmosphere, heating to 850 ℃, keeping the constant temperature for 360 minutes, and naturally cooling to room temperature in the furnace to obtain the C-coated BFe alloy-BFe-C.
According to BFe-C and LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5The alloy powder with the mass ratio of 10:100 is placed in a ball milling tank, argon is used as protective gas for ball milling, the effective ball milling time is 30 minutes, the alloy powder and the protective gas are uniformly mixed, and the prepared BFe-C/LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5A composite hydrogen storage alloy material.
The alloy powder is pressed into tablets to prepare a simulation battery for testing the electrochemical performance. Electrochemical properties, including fade performance, maximum capacity, were tested with a DC-5 cell tester. Wherein the maximum capacity and the activation performance are tested when the charging current density and the discharging current density are both 60 mA/g.
By combining the attached drawings 1 and 2, the maximum discharge capacity of the added BFe-C composite material in the first circulation is reached, and the maximum discharge capacity of the added 10 wt% BFe-C composite material is 370.7mAh/g in turn and is 258.1mAh/g higher than that of the reference alloy; the discharge capacity of the hydrogen storage alloy added with 10 wt% of BFe-C composite material is 147mAh/g when 100 circles are formed, and is still higher than 122mAh/g when the reference alloy is formed when 100 circles are formed; the discharge capacity at 29.85-59.85 ℃ of the BFe-C composite material added with 10 wt% is higher than that of the reference alloy. Therefore, the maximum discharge capacity and the high-temperature discharge capacity of the BFe-C composite material added with 10 wt% are improved.
Example 3
Press LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5Preparing materials according to a stoichiometric ratio of a molecular formula, placing metals such as La, Y, Ni, Mn, Al and the like (the purity is higher than 99.9%) into a smelting furnace from bottom to top in sequence from low to high in melting point, cooling the metals in a protected copper crucible by circulating water, carrying out electric arc smelting in an argon atmosphere, naturally cooling the metals in the furnace to form an alloy ingot, circularly turning the alloy in the furnace for three times in order to ensure the uniformity and uniformity of the alloy, naturally cooling and taking out the smelted alloy, grinding and crushing the alloy by using an agate mortar, and sieving the alloy by using a 200-mesh sieve to obtain LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5And (3) alloying powder.
Taking 99.9% of BFe alloy and citric acid according to the weight ratio of 1: placing the mixture in a ball milling tank according to the proportion of 1, then placing small balls with the ball material ratio of 1:15 in the ball milling tank, introducing protective gas argon into the ball milling tank, placing the ball milling tank in a high-energy ball mill, and setting the effective ball milling time of the ball milling process to be 360 minutes. To avoid overheating the sample, the machine was cooled for 5 minutes for 10 minutes per ball mill. And (3) completely taking out the sample after ball milling, placing the sample into a porcelain boat, placing the porcelain boat into a tube furnace filled with argon atmosphere, heating to 850 ℃, keeping the constant temperature for 360 minutes, and naturally cooling to room temperature in the furnace to obtain the C-coated BFe alloy-BFe-C.
And putting the BFe-C and LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5 alloy powder into a ball milling tank according to the mass ratio of 15:100, and carrying out ball milling for 30 minutes by using argon as a protective gas to uniformly mix the powder to prepare the BFe-C/LaY2Ni9.5Mn0.5Al0.5 composite hydrogen storage alloy material.
The alloy powder is pressed into tablets to prepare a simulation battery for testing the electrochemical performance. Electrochemical properties, including fade performance, maximum capacity, were tested with a DC-5 cell tester. Wherein the maximum capacity and the activation performance are tested when the charging current density and the discharging current density are both 60 mA/g.
As can be seen by combining the attached figure 1 of the invention, the maximum discharge capacity of the BFe-C composite material added with 15 wt% in the first circulation is achieved, the maximum discharge capacity is 405.9mAh/g and is higher than 258.1mAh/g of the maximum discharge capacity of the reference alloy; however, after 100 cycles, the discharge capacity of the base alloy and the BFe-C composite material added with 15 wt% decayed to 122.4mAh/g and 109.8mAh/g, respectively.
As can be seen from FIG. 2, the discharge capacity at 29.85 deg.C to 59.85 deg.C was higher with the addition of 15 wt% BFe-C composite than the reference alloy. Therefore, the maximum discharge capacity and the high-temperature discharge capacity of the BFe-C composite material added with 15 wt% are improved.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.