Diffusion of H through Pd-Ag alloys (423-523 K)

H diffusion constants have been determined from steady-state fluxes through Pd-Ag alloy membranes. The upstream side is maintained at a nearly constant pup (and consequently at a nearly constant rup=H/(Pd(1-x)Agx)) atom ratio, whereas the downstream side is at pH2 approximately 0 (rdown=0) (423-523 K). It is shown that the permeability is a maximum for atom fraction Ag, XAg=0.23 (423-523 K) at both pup=20.3 and 50.6 kPa. DH has been determined for some Pd-Ag alloys as a function of r in the dilute region, and it decreases with r even at small H contents for alloys with XAg<0.35. The concentration dependence of DH(cH) has been determined for the Pd0.77Ag0.23 alloy over a large concentration range. The effect of nonideality on DH(r) and ED(r) has been systematically determined as a function of XAg, where XAg is the atom fraction of Ag in the H-free alloy. (dDH/dr) increases with XAg up to XAg=0.35 and then changes from negative to positive at approximately 0.35. The activation energies for diffusion, ED(r), have been determined as a function of H content in the dilute range for several Pd-Ag alloy membranes, and the conversion to concentration-independent E*D values has been carried out in several different ways.