Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 58, Number 3, May 2002
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Page(s) | 462 - 467 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00661-y | |
Published online | 01 August 2002 |
Excess heat release during deuterium sorption-desorption by finely powdered palladium deuteride
Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of
Sciences prospect Acad. Koptyuga, 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Corresponding author: kirkinsk@uiggm.nsc.ru
Received:
2
May
2001
Accepted:
30
January
2002
Thermal effects have been studied in the course of sorption-desorption of hydrogen isotopes by a finely powdered palladium deuteride using a differential scanning calorimeter DSC-111 SETARAM. During α-β transition an excess heat release is observed in palladium deuteride of about one watt per gram of deuteride. In similar experiments with palladium hydride no anomalous effects have been observed. On the basis of earlier computer modelling, relevant publications and our experimental results, the excess heat release during deuterium sorption-desorption by palladium deuteride is attributed to the fusion reactions of deuterium atoms yielding helium.
PACS: 81.70.Pg – Thermal analysis, differential thermal analysis (DTA), differential thermogravimetric analysis / 25.45.-z –
-induced reactions
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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