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Title: Hydrogen, lithium, and lithium hydride production

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1364632
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A method is provided for extracting hydrogen from lithium hydride. The method includes (a) heating lithium hydride to form liquid-phase lithium hydride; (b) extracting hydrogen from the liquid-phase lithium hydride, leaving residual liquid-phase lithium metal; (c) hydriding the residual liquid-phase lithium metal to form refined lithium hydride; and repeating steps (a) and (b) on the refined lithium hydride.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant (Y-12), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22800
Assignee:
Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
Patent Number(s):
9,682,859
Application Number:
14/171,801
OSTI ID:
1364632
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2014 Feb 04
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (5)

Method for agitation of molten metal and furnace for agitation of molten metal patent October 1981
Method and system for hydrogen thermal-electrochemical conversion patent September 1987
Process and apparatus for the purification of hydrogen gas patent January 1992
Hydrogen, lithium, and lithium hydride production patent March 2014
Magnesium borohydride as a hydrogen storage material: Properties and dehydrogenation pathway of unsolvated Mg(BH4)2 journal January 2009

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