Hydrogen permeator

Fig. 2-20 Influence of potential on hydrogen permeation 1 -mm-thick steel sheet/ aerated seawater.

Fig. 8.38 Hydrogen permeation current as a function of applied potential, showing effect of change in reaction mechanism below —1200 mV (SCE) (after Obuzor )...

The anode compartment contains a reference electrode and counterelectrode and by means of a potentiostat the anode side is maintained at a constant potential. The coverage of adsorbed hydrogen on the cathode side will depend on the current density i and the nature of the electrolyte solution, and the cell can be used to study the effect of a variety of factors (composition and structure of alloys, pH of solution, effect of promoters and inhibitors) on hydrogen permeation. 

Beck, et al. have used the permeation technique to study the effect of uniaxial tensile stresses in the elastic region on hydrogen permeation through pure iron, and have shown that it increases with increase in stress. The partial molar volume of hydrogen (cubic centimetres of hydrogen per mole of iron) in ferrous alloys can be evaluated from the variation of permeation with applied stress, and from the relationship... 

Palladium-based dense metallic membranes have been known to be completely selective for hydrogen permeation and are used in commercially available small-scale hydrogen purification units (e.g., Johnson Matthey, 2007 REB Research, 2007 Power + Energy, 2007 ATI Wah Chang, 2007). These hydrogen purification units typically use palladium-alloy... 

Hara, S., N. Hatakeyama, N. Itoh, H.-M. Kimura, and A. Inoue, Hydrogen permeation through palladium-coated amorphous Zr-M-Ni (M=Ti, Hf) alloy membranes, Desalination, 144,115-120, 2002. 

Pressure rise curve for X52 steel during high-pressure hydrogen permeation measurement. The measured pressure is normalized to the charging pressure on the upstream side. Here, the hydrogen charging pressure is 510 psi and the test temperature is 165°C. 

The decolourization of the azo dye amaranth was also investigated using atomic hydrogen permeating through a Pt-modified palladized Pd sheet electrode. The decolouration products were separated by RP-HPLC in an ODS column. The isocratic mobile phase was 0.1 M aqueous orthophosphoric acid. The flow rate was 1.2 X 10 2 cm3/s and decomposition products were detected at 236 nm. The RP-HPLC system separated two analytes with retention times of 3.4 and 4.5 min, as demonstrated in Fig. 3.47. The peaks were... 

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