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The factors affecting the diffusion properties of hydrogen in palladium copper alloys: Ab initio study

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 47, Issue 64, Pages 27579-27589

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.06.077

Keywords

Palladium copper membrane; Hydrogen permeability; Hydrogen diffusion; Ab initio calculations

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11905206]
  2. Key Research and Development Plan of Anhui Province [202104a05020048]
  3. Open Fund of Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion [2021AMF01003]
  4. Anhui Jianzhu University Doctoral Startup Fund [2020QDZ12]

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Systematic ab initio calculations were performed to investigate the factors affecting the diffusion properties of hydrogen in PdCu alloys. It was found that the diffusion barrier of hydrogen in BCC PdCu alloy is lower than that in FCC PdCu alloy. The interactions among interstitial hydrogen atoms are repulsive in BCC PdCu alloy, while they are attractive in FCC PdCu alloy. These results explain the weaker hydrogen penetration ability in FCC PdCu alloy compared to BCC PdCu alloy.
The experiments showed that the addition of copper (Cu) in palladium (Pd) membrane reduces the permeability of hydrogen (H) in Pd, and the permeability of H in body-centered cubic (BCC) PdCu alloy is larger than that in face-centered cubic (FCC) PdCu alloy. The underlying reasons are still not well understood. In the present work, systematical ab initio calculations are carried out to investigate the factors affecting the diffusion properties of H in PdCu alloys. It is found that the lowest diffusion barrier of H with zero-point energy correction in BCC PdCu alloy (0.016 eV) is relatively low than that in FCC PdCu alloy (0.346 eV). The interactions among interstitial H atoms are significantly repulsive in BCC PdCu alloy, while it is attractive in FCC PdCu alloy. The results suggest that it is energeti-cally favorable to form interstitial H cluster in FCC PdCu alloy rather than that in BCC PdCu alloy. The formation of interstitial H clusters impedes the fast movement of H in FCC PdCu alloy. The presence of intrinsic vacancy in FCC PdCu alloy further hinders the migration of H. It is found that the binding strength of vacancy with H in FCC PdCu alloy is much larger than that in BCC PdCu. The stronger the combination of H and vacancy, the greater the obstacle to the movement of H in PdCu alloy. All these results elucidate the experimental phenomena why H penetration ability in FCC PdCu alloy is weaker than that in BCC PdCu alloy.(c) 2022 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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