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Preparation of Hydrogen

July 31, 2021 by Prasanna

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Preparation of Hydrogen

High purity hydrogen (>99.9 %) is obtained by the electrolysis of water containing traces of acid or alkali or the electrolysis of aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide using a nickel anode and iron cathode. However, this process is not economical for large-scale production.

At Anode:

2 OH– → H2O + ½ O2 + 2e–

At Cathode:

2 H2O + 2 e– → 2 OH– + H2

Overall Reaction:

H2O → H2 + ½ O2

Laboratory Preparation

Hydrogen is conveniently prepared in laboratory by the reaction of metals, such as zinc, iron, tin with dilute acid.

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Industrial Production

In the large-scale, hydrogen is produced by steam-reforming of hydrocarbons. In this method hydrocarbon such as methane is mixed with steam and passed over nickel catalyst in the range 800-900 °C and 35 atm pressures.

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In an another process, steam is passed over a red-hot coke to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The mixture of gases produced in this way is known as water gas (CO+H2). This is also called syngas (Synthetic gas) as it is used in the synthesis of organic compounds such as methanol and simple hydrocarbons.

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Conversion of Carbon Monoxide in Water gas to Carbon Dioxide:

The carbon monoxide of the water gas can be converted to carbon dioxide by mixing the gas mixture with more steam at 400°C and passed over a shift converter containing iron/copper catalyst. This reaction is called as water-gas shift reaction.

CO + H2 → CO2 + H2

The CO2 formed in the above process is absorbed in a solution of potassium carbonate.

CO2 + K2CO3 + H2O → 2KHCO3

Preparation of Deuterium:

Electrolysis of Heavy Water:

Normal water contains 1.6 × 10-4 percentage of heavy water. The dissociation of protium water (H2O) is more than heavy water (D2O). Therefore, when water is electrolysed, hydrogen is liberated much faster than D2. The electrolysis is continued until the resulting solution becomes enriched in heavy water. Further electrolysis of the heavy water gives deuterium.

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Preparation of Tritium:

As explained earlier the tritium is present only in trace amounts. So it can be artificially prepared by bombarding lithium with slow neutrons in a nuclear fission reactor. The nuclear transmutation reaction for this process is as follows.

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