The effect of heating rate on the reversible hydrogen storage based on reactions of Li3AlH6 with LiNH2

Reversible dehydrogenation and hydrogenation reactions have been reported for a number of reactions based on lithium alanate and lithium amide materials. The dehydrogenation and hydrogenation reactions involving these materials are, however, usually very complex. Significant discrepancies exist among different studies published in literature. Understanding the reaction mechanism and the dependence of the reaction pathway on material preparation processes and processing parameters is critical. In this paper, the hydrogenation reactions of the mixture of 3Li2NH/Al/4 wt%TiCl3 were investigated as a function of the heating rate. The hydrogenated products were characterized by means of TGA, XRD and solid-state NMR. These new results showed that the re-formation of Li3AlH6 depends strongly on the heating rate during the hydrogenation process. The dehydrogenation and rehydrogenation reaction pathways and possible mechanisms of the combined system are, however, still under investigation.