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http://dx.doi.org/10.7316/KHNES.2020.31.1.1

NH3 Decomposition Reaction for Hydrogen Formation Using Vanadium Carbide Catalysts  

KIM, JUNG-SU (Department of Chemical Engineering, Hannam University)
CHOI, SEONG-SHIN (Department of Chemical Engineering, Hannam University)
CHOI, JEONG-GIL (Department of Chemical Engineering, Hannam University)
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Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society / v.31, no.1, 2020 , pp. 1-7 More about this Journal
Abstract
The synthesis and catalytic activities over vanadium carbides were examined for ammonia decomposition reaction to produce the hydrogen. In particular, the comparison of vanadium nitrides were made on the ammonia decomposition reaction. The experimental data exhibited that BET surface areas ranged from 5.2 ㎡/g to 25.6 ㎡/g and oxygen uptake values varied from 3.8 μmol/g to 31.3 μmol/g. It is general that vanadium carbides (VC) were observed to be superior to vanadium nitrides for ammonia decomposition reaction. The primary reason for these differences were thought to be related to the extent of electronegativity between these materials. Most of vanadium carbide crystallites were exceeded by Pt/C crystallite. We assumed that the activities for vanadium carbide crystallites (VC) were comparable to or even higher than that determined for the Pt/C crystallite.
Keywords
Vanadium metal carbide crystallites; Ammonia decomposition reactivity; BET surface area; Oxygen uptake;
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