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    Storage of Hydrogen at 303 K in Graphite Slitlike Pores from Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulation

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    Kowalczyk, Poitr
    Tanaka, H.
    Holyst, R.
    Kaneko, K.
    Ohmori, T.
    Miyamoto, J.
    Date
    2005
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Kowalczyk, P. and Tanaka, H. and Holyst, R. and Kaneko, K. and Ohmori, T. and Miyamoto, J. 2005. Storage of Hydrogen at 303 K in Graphite Slitlike Pores from Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulation. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 109: pp. 17174-17183.
    Source Title
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B
    DOI
    10.1021/jp0529063
    ISSN
    1520-6106
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5203
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    Abstract

    Grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations were used for the modeling of the hydrogen adsorption in idealized graphite slitlike pores. In all simulations, quantum effects were included through the Feynman and Hibbs second-order effective potential. The simulated surface excess isotherms of hydrogen were used for the determination of the total hydrogen storage, density of hydrogen in graphite slitlike pores, distribution of pore sizes and volumes, enthalpy of adsorption per mole, total surface area, total pore volume, and average pore size of pitch-based activated carbon fibers. Combining experimental results with simulations reveals that the density of hydrogen in graphite slitlike pores at 303 K does not exceed 0.014 g/cm3, that is, 21% of the liquid-hydrogen density at the triple point. The optimal pore size for the storage of hydrogen at 303 K in the considered pore geometry depends on the pressure of storage. For lower storage pressures, p < 30MPa, the optimal pore width is equal to a 2.2 collision diameter of hydrogen (i.e., 0.65 nm), whereas, for p = 50MPa, the pore width is equal to an approximately 7.2 collision diameter of hydrogen (i.e., 2.13 nm). For the wider pores, that is, the pore width exceeds a 7.2 collision diameter of hydrogen, the surface excess of hydrogen adsorption is constant. The importance of quantum effects is recognized in narrow graphite slitlike pores in the whole range of the hydrogen pressure as well as in wider ones at high pressures of bulk hydrogen. The enthalpies of adsorption per mole for the considered carbonaceous materials are practically constant with hydrogen loading and vary within the narrow range qst = 7.28-7.85 kJ/mol. Our systematic study of hydrogen adsorption at 303 K in graphite slitlike pores gives deep insight into the timely problem of hydrogen storage as the most promising source of clean energy. The calculated maximum storage of hydrogen is equal to 1.4 wt %, which is far from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) target (i.e., 6.5 wt %), thus concluding that the total storage amount of hydrogen obtained at 303 K in graphite slitlike pores of carbon fibers is not sufficient yet.

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