Indirect hydrolysis of sodium borohydride: Isolation and crystallographic characterization of methanolysis and hydrolysis by-products

Keith Huynh; Krizia Napolitano; Ruiyao Wang; Philip G. Jessop; Boyd R. Davis

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.03.011

Indirect hydrolysis of sodium borohydride: Isolation and crystallographic characterization of methanolysis and hydrolysis by-products

Keith Huynh, Krizia Napolitano, Ruiyao Wang, Philip G. Jessop^*, Boyd R. Davis

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Abstract

The use of sodium borohydride as a means for hydrogen generation has focused on the base-stabilized hydrolysis reaction, while literature for the methanolysis of sodium borohydride remains scarce. Sodium borohydride methanolysis is an alternative for hydrogen production from sodium borohydride and has a number of advantages over hydrolysis reactions in terms of by-product handling. Previous studies have shown that the presence of water in methanol significantly retards the rate of hydrogen evolution from NaBH₄. This article reports the production of hydrogen from NaBH₄ using rigorously dried methanol. In addition, the solid-state structure of the methanolysis by-product is reported, which lends pertinent information for its hydrolysis for methanol recovery. Also reported is the solid-state structure of the hydrolysis by-product.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5775-5782
Number of pages	8
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	38
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.03.011
Publication status	Published - 10 May 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Hydrogen generation
Methanolysis
Sodium borohydride
X-ray characterization

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