The increasing use of fossil fuels for energy production is pushing us harder every year to find alternative renewable sources to replace them and thus significantly reduce environmental pollution. Because they do not bring the same consistency to an already established energy grid as fossil fuels do, more and more research is being done into ways of storing energy for those periods when production at the expense of renewables is high and consumption cannot keep up. Hydrogen-based energy storage systems are a case in point.
The heterocyclic compound 2-methylquinoline has been studied as a potential LOHC system. In the presence of a 5 % Ru/C catalyst, the influence of the reaction conditions on the hydrogenation of 2-methylquinoline was monitored. We were interested in how changes in pressure, temperature, mass of the catalyst and volume of the reactant alter the course of the reaction.
The results showed that temperature in the range of 120-180 °C does not significantly influence the hydrogenation reaction, while hydrogen pressure in the range of 25-75 bar and 2-methylquinoline volume in the range of 5-15 mL strongly influence the reaction rate and the final concentration profile of the components in the reaction mixture. The same as for temperature is also true for the mass of the catalyst in the range between 0,05 and 0,15 g, where the influence on the course of the reaction is not so pronounced, but is nevertheless present.
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