@article{Manilevich_Pirskyy_Kutsyi_Danil’tsev_2020, title={REGULARITIES OF HYDROLYSIS OF ALUMINUM ACTIVATED BY Ga-In-Sn EUTECTIC ALLOY AND ZINC}, volume={86}, url={https://ucj.org.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/125}, DOI={10.33609/0041-6045.86.2.2020.63-77}, abstractNote={<p>Aluminum is a promising metal for creating energy-storing substances (ESS) on its basis for hydrogen evolution from water as a result of its of activating aluminum and providing it with the ability to react with water, special attention is paid to methods of alloying it with additions of low-melting metals and alloys, in particular, the eutectic alloy of gallium, indium and tin is perspective alloy for alloying aluminum and obtaining ESS, capable of releasing hydrogen from water without additional heating. The temperature at which stable interaction of aluminum activated by low-melting metals and alloys with water begins to be determined by the temperature at which alloying metals on the surface of aluminum crystallites become liquid. The melting point of the four-component Ga<sub>61</sub>In<sub>25</sub>Sn<sub>13</sub>Zn<sub>1</sub> eutectic is about 3&nbsp;°C, what is about 8&nbsp;°C lower than the melting point of the Ga-In-Sn eutectic. Therefore, in this work, aluminum was activated by the eutectic alloy of gallium, indium and tin, as well as zinc, and the regularities of the hydrolysis of the obtained EAPs were investigated.</p> <p>Comparative volumetric determinations of hydrogen, which was released during the hydrolysis of 95 wt.% Al + 5 wt.% Ga-In-Sn eutectic and 92 wt.% Al + 5 wt.% Ga-In-Sn eutectic + 3 wt.% Zn alloys, showed that the introduction of zinc into activated aluminum led to a significant acceleration of hydrogen evolution from water at low temperatures (25 and 40&nbsp;°C). The effective rate constants of hydrolysis of the zinc-doped alloy, calculated using the modified Prout-Tompkins equation, were 1.33, 1.75, 2.19, and 2.58 min<sup>-1</sup> at temperatures of 25, 40, 55, and 70&nbsp;°C, respectively. The effective activation energy of the process, calculated from the temperature dependence of the effective rate constant, was 12.6 kJ·mol<sup>-1</sup>, which indicates diffuse control of the hydrolysis rate. An analysis of the X-ray diffraction pattern of the products of the hydrolysis of 92 wt.% Al + 5 wt.% Ga-In-Sn eutectic + 3 wt.% Zn alloy at the temperature of 55&nbsp;°C showed that they contain boehmite, baerite and small amounts of alloying metals.</p&gt;}, number={2}, journal={Ukrainian Chemistry Journal}, author={Manilevich, Fedor and Pirskyy, Yuriy and Kutsyi, Andrii and Danil’tsev, Boris}, year={2020}, month={Feb.}, pages={63-77} }