Improvement of the Catalytic Oxidation of Dissolved Hydrogen with Palladium-Coated Sorbents

Abstract

New improved process for the catalytic oxidation of dissolved hydrogen with the use of palladiumcoated sorbents was suggested, described, and performed. To implement the suggestion of the authors in accordance with the scheme of the experimental setup, dissolved hydrogen formed as a result of radiolysis of water is removed from a water heat-carrying agent by the method of catalytic oxidation on the surface of a palladium-coated sorbent when the heat carrier is filtered through a mixed-type ion-exchange filter to which a catalytic sorbent is added. The decrease in the concentration of hydrogen dissolved in the heat-carrying agent rules out its evolution into the gas phase in amounts forming explosive mixtures.