Thermodynamic properties of sodium pyrovanadate (Na4V2O7) at high temperature (298.15–873 K)

Abstract The sodium pyrovanadate (Na4V2O7) powder was synthesized by solid-state reaction using sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) and vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) as raw materials. X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) were used to accurately characterize the synthesized sample. The solid-state phase transformation from α-Na4V2O7 to β-Na4V2O7 occurs at the temperature 696 K and the enthalpy is equals to 1.03 ± 0.01 kJ/mol, the endothermic effect at 931 K and the enthalpy is equals to 31.35 ± 0.31 kJ/mol, which is related to the melting of Na4V2O7. The high-temperature heat capacity of Na4V2O7 was measured using a Multi-high temperature calorimeter 96 line and DSC. The obtained high-temperature heat capacity of Na4V2O7, as a function of temperature, was modeled as: Cp=314.62+0.05T-5494390T-2 J·mol-1·K-1 (298.15-873 K). The temperature dependence on heat capacity was then used for computing changes in the enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs free energy at the specific temperature internal.