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Thermodynamic description of hydrogen storage materials Cr–Ti–Zr and Fe–Ti–Zr

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2017

Wojciech Gierlotka*
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Engineering Department, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 97401, Taiwan
Cho-yu Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan 71005 Taiwan
*
a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: wojtek@mail.ndhu.edu.tw

Abstract

Modern hydrogen technology requires materials with high capacity storage. Many metals and alloys form cheap metal hydrides that can contain a high volume density of hydrogen. The quaternary alloy Cr–Fe–Ti–Zr with Laves phases is one promising hydrogen storage material. Understanding phase equilibria properties is essential to improve the Laves phases’ hydrogen storage capacity. In this work, the thermodynamic description of two constituent ternary phase materials, Cr–Ti–Zr and Fe–Ti–Zr are investigated using the Calphad method. A set of Gibbs energies was optimized during this work and good agreement between modeling and available experimental information was found. Moreover, a new thermodynamic model for a binary Fe–Zr system was developed based on recent experimental investigation about intermetallic compounds FeZr2 and FeZr3. Obtained in this work results can find application in development of new hydrogen storage materials.

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TABLE I. Crystal structures of phases in Cr–Ti–Zr and Fe–Ti–Zr systems.92

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TABLE II. Excess Gibbs energy parameters.

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FIG. 1. Isothermal section of the Cr–Ti–Zr system at 1073 K superimposed with experimental data given by Kornilov et al.82

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FIG. 2. Isothermal section of Cr–Ti–Zr system at 923 K. Experimental determination of tie-triangles were taken from Kornilov et al.82 work.

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FIG. 3. Isoplethal section Cr77Zr33–Ti together with data taken from Musayev et al.83 work.

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FIG. 4. Liquidus projection of Cr–Ti–Zr system.

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TABLE III. Invariant reactions in the ternary Cr–Ti–Zr system.

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FIG. 5. Calculated binary Fe–Zr system superimposed with experimental data given by Servant et al.,44 Stein et al.84 and Svechnikov and Spektor.36

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FIG. 6. Calculated isothermal section of the ternary Fe–Ti–Zr system at 1173 K. The numbers indicate experimentally determined ternary phase regions79: 1—Laves_C14 + Laves_C15 + FeTi, 2—FeTi + FeZr2 + Laves_C15, 3—BCC_A2 + FeTi + FeZr2.

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FIG. 7. Calculated isothermal section of the ternary Fe–Ti–Zr system at 1023 K.

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FIG. 8. Calculated liquidus projection of the ternary Fe–Ti–Zr system.

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TABLE IV. Invariant reactions in the ternary Fe–Ti–Zr system.