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PURPOSE:To improve the rate of hydrogen occlusion in an alloy, by stacking a pair of containers having the same shape and each having a path of thermal medium therein, attaching a hydrogen gas pipe between the containers, and dropping the hydrogen occlusion alloy from the upper container to the lower container. CONSTITUTION:The container 1 having the inlet 4 and the outlet 6 of hydrogen occlusion alloy at the top is furnished with a spiral built-in path 10 of thermal medium. A pair of containers 1 are stacked together, the outlet 6 of the upper container 1 is connected to the inlet 4 of the lower container, a perforated bottom plate 7 and a gate valve 8 are inserted between the containers, and a hydrogen gas supply pipe 9 is connected to the connection part. When the hydrogen occlusion alloy 4 in the upper container 1 is dropped through the perforated bottom plate 7 into the lower container 1, the alloy occludes hydrogen gas supplied from the pipe 9, and is collected in the lower container as hydrogenated alloy. The occluded hydrogen can be released easily from the alloy by passing a thermal medium through the spiral path 10 in the container 1 thereby heating the hydrogenated alloy.
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