121st General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Industrial Chemistry
Room No. Event Hall
Time 4월 19일 (목요일) 11:00~12:30
Code IND.P-10
Subject Influence of ultra-micropore and determination of optimal pore size on hydrogen storage behaviors from chemically activated ketjenblack
Authors Young-Jung Heo, Soo-Jin Park*
Department of Chemistry, Inha University, Korea
Abstract In recent years, nanoporous materials with high specific surface areas and porosity have been developed to meet the commercial demands of hydrogen storage systems. Ketjenblack (KB) materials are of great interest because of their lower oxygen content, robust, and higher porosity when compared to other porous carbon materials. In this work, we used KB as carbon materials for the production of porous carbon by chemical activation with KOH. Activated Ketjenblack (AKB) materials have high specific surface areas (up to 1891 m2 g-1) and various pore sizes (0.46–0.66 nm) in the ultramicropore range. The textural properties of these materials depend strongly on their activation parameters, particularly the KOH/carbon mass ratio. These AKBs achieved hydrogen storage capacities of up to 2.1 wt.% at 1 bar and 77 K, and large heat of adsorption values of up to 8.7 kJ mol-1. The interaction between hydrogen and the carbon surface was more closely related to the porosity than to the surface oxygen content. Among the textural properties of the samples, the pore size and volume were found to be the key factors affecting hydrogen adsorption.
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