Room temperature reaction of vanadium-based alloys with hydrogen

Patent · Tue Apr 03 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6510470

Libowitz, G G; Lynch, J F; Maeland, A J

A method of producing a vanadium-based metal hydride which comprises reacting hydrogen gas at a temperature between about 0/sup 0/ and 100/sup 0/ C. with a vanadium-based binary solid solution alloy having a body-centered cubic structure and having a formula V/sub 1//sub -/ /SUB x/ M /SUB x/ , wherein M is a metal selected from the group consisting of manganese, chromium, cobalt, iron, nickel and mixtures thereof and wherein x varies from at least about 2 atom percent up to the solubility limit of cobalt, iron and nickel and up to about 20 mol % of manganese and up to about 40 mol % of chromium in said solid solution alloy is disclosed.

• Assignee: Allied Corp.
• Patent Number(s): US 4440737
• OSTI ID: 6510470
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360105* -- Metals & Alloys-- Corrosion & Erosion
ALLOY SYSTEMS
ALLOYS
AMBIENT TEMPERATURE
BINARY ALLOY SYSTEMS
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHROMIUM ALLOYS
COBALT ALLOYS
DISPERSIONS
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
GASES
HYDRIDATION
HYDROGEN
IRON ALLOYS
MANGANESE ALLOYS
MIXTURES
NICKEL ALLOYS
NONMETALS
SOLID SOLUTIONS
SOLUTIONS
VANADIUM ALLOYS
VANADIUM BASE ALLOYS