Gas source and dispensing system

摘要

A system for the storage and delivery of a sorbable fluid, comprising a storage and dispensing vessel containing a sorbent material having sorptive affinity for the sorbable fluid, and from which the fluid is desorbable by pressure-mediated and/or thermally-mediated desorption, wherein the sorbent material is functionally enhanced by a reagent which alters the binding energy of the fluid to the sorbent. In a preferred aspect, the system is arranged for storage and delivery of B2H6, in which the sorbent material has sorptive affinity for B2H6 and is effective when B2H6 is contacted with the sorbent to convert B2H6 to a sorbed .BH3 form, which is desorbable by pressure-mediated desorption and/or thermally-mediated desorption to release B2H6 from the sorbent, and means for selectively discharging desorbed B2H6 from the vessel