Magnesium Pellets for Hydrogen Generation and Application to in-situ Reduction of Organic Compounds and Inorganic Species

Abstract

A new method of hydrogen generation by magnesium pellets was proposed. Hydrogen was generated by putting magnesium pellets, composed of magnesium particles and some catalyst, into salt water. The rate of hydrogen generation was very fast and the quantitative amount of hydrogen was obtained in a short time period. This hydrogen evolution system was applied to in-situ reduction of organic compounds and inorganic spesies. Among them, ketones were quite easily reduced to alcoholes and the iron ion species were also reduced and almost perfectly removed out from the solution.