Novel volumetric analysis technique for characterizing the solubility and diffusivity of hydrogen in rubbers

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

We introduce a volumetric analysis technique to characterize the solubility of hydrogen dissolved in polymers and its diffusion coefficient by electrical capacitance measurement electrodes to determine the water level in graduated cylinders. This new and simple technique measures the volume of hydrogen released from rubber inside a graduated cylinder after a sample is exposed to high-pressure hydrogen and subsequent decompression.
A diffusion analysis program is utilized to determine the total uptake (C0) and diffusivity (D) of hydrogen, which are used to calculate the solubility (S) and permeability (P). This method is applied to spherical rubber samples of nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR), ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM), and fluoroelastomer (FKM), which are potential sealing materials for H2 energy infrastructures. C0 follows Henry’s law for all samples. No sample size and pressure dependence is observed for S, whereas an appreciable size dependence for the three rubbers is detected for D. The uncertainty is evaluated by considering uncertainty factors that affect the measurement. The correlation between D and density of rubber is found. The developed method can be utilized as a standard test for the transport properties versus pressure of various polymer membranes regardless of the sample shapes and size.

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