The invention discloses a preparation method of a
hydrogen storage
alloy material. A
structural formula of the material is ABx(x=3.0-3.5), wherein a chemical constituent of an element on A side is Lz1-yMgy, and y is 0.25-0.33; and B is NipCoz (Mn Al3)w, p is 2.5-3.3, z is 0-0.5, and w is 0-0.1. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: (1) adopting
oxalic acid-
ethanol solution as a precipitator, taking
saline solution of
rare earth,
magnesium,
nickel and various doped
metal as raw materials, preparing a precipitate, and washing, filtering,
drying and firing the precipitate to obtain an
alloy oxide precursor; and (2) taking
calcium hydride as
reducing agent, and high-purity
hydrogen as
reducing atmosphere, carrying out reduction in a vacuum /
atmosphere tubular furnace, and rinsing, soaking, washing and
drying the reduzate to obtain
hydrogen storage
alloy powder. According to the preparation method, the
rare earth oxide and
metal salt are adopted as the raw materials, so that the adoption of expensive pure
metal is avoided, the cost can be obviously reduced, the prepared alloy
powder has mall
granularity, the compositions are uniform, the
discharge capacity is high, the performance is stable, and the
hydrogen storage alloy material can be used as a negative active material of a large-power
nickel-hydrogen battery.