Sentences with phrase «of hydrogen storage»

The new generation of hydrogen storage solutions has tried getting round these problems by squeezing hydrogen into solid composite materials.

The incremental cost of manufacturing an FCV includes the cost of the fuel cell plus the cost of the hydrogen storage tanks.

The LLNL team has built a strong foundation of coupling spectroscopy experiments with advanced simulations and has recently extended their work to include electrochemical systems [1] and surface / interface electronic structure of hydrogen storage materials.

Not exact matches

Still, other teams have shown that the tiny tubes can hold about 4 % or so, close to the magic figure of 6.5 % that's needed for a viable hydrogen storage material.

Sung June Cho, a chemist at the Korean Institute of Energy Research in Taejon, suspected that the storage capabilities of nanotubes could result in part from their ability to conduct electrical charges, which may help hydrogen molecules adhere.

Typical hydrogen storage materials are limited by factors like water sensitivity, risk of explosion, difficulty of control of hydrogen - generation.

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«Although theoretically ideal for energy transfer or storage, metallic hydrogen is extremely challenging to produce experimentally,» said Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, who led a team of physicists in researching the effect of the noble gas argon on pressurized hydrogen.

It turns out they are indispensable for a range of urgently needed green energy technologies such as wind turbine generators, low - energy lighting, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, magnetic refrigeration and hydrogen storage.

Germany is currently the market leader with 22 green hydrogen storage and power - to - gas projects as of 2012.

It's a major step forward, but the U.S. Department of Energy has set a target capacity for hydrogen - storage techniques of 6 % of weight, so the carbonized feathers need improvement.

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are proving to be incredibly flexible with a myriad of potential applications including as antimicrobial agents, hydrogen - storage materials and solar - cell components.

Conventional approaches to compact hydrogen storage — compressing the gas to up to 10,000 pounds per square inch (psi) or cooling it down to cryogenic temperatures so that it liquefies (around 252 degrees Celsius)-- can attain only about half the energy density needed to fit enough fuel inside something the size of a gas tank.

One of the promising methods for hydrogen storage makes use of the capability of some metals and alloys to easily uptake this element.

«But anyway, we demonstrate the feasibility of such future - oriented chemical robust photoelectrocatalytic systems that have the potential to convert solar energy to hydrogen, i.e to chemical energy for storage.

The current code, known as NFPA 2, provides fundamental safeguards for the generation, installation, storage, piping, use and handling of hydrogen in compressed gas or cryogenic (low temperature) liquid form.

During the search for optimal compounds for hydrogen storage at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) in Warsaw an accidental, albeit very interesting, discovery has been made: while the pressure was being increased one of the tested materials suddenly elongated significantly.

The drawbacks of conventional storage tanks for gaseous and liquid hydrogen force us to look for other solutions.

«We have discovered a catalyst that can produce ready quantities of hydrogen without the need for extreme cold temperatures or high pressures, which are often required in other production and storage methods,» remarks Mahdi Abu - Omar of Purdue University.

Practical onboard storage would, of course, constitute only half the formula for a successful hydrogen economy; the other half would be a large - scale hydrogen distribution and refueling network.

The process, using room temperature mechanical ball milling, provides a lower cost method to produce these alkali metals which are widely used in industrial processes as reducing and drying agents, precursors in synthesis of complex metal hydrides, hydrogen storage materials, and in nuclear engineering.

Says materials scientist Michael Heben, who worked on the project: This points to the possibility of high - density hydrogen storage at room temperatures.

The development of efficient hydrogen storage systems requires, however, a detailed knowledge on how hydrogen diffuses in metals.

The engineers were able to work around the hydrogen storage problem by using non-polluting Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells and a process of aluminum activation patented by the paper's co-authors, Prof. Alon Gany and Dr. Valery Rosenband.

Applications of this process include drug delivery, quantum computation, photovoltaics and hydrogen storage.

MOFs are three - dimensional, coordination networks comprising metal ions and organic molecules and usually are crystalline, porous materials with many applications including storage of gases such as hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

«Hydrogen from sunlight — but as a dark reaction: Generation, storage, and time - delayed release of electrons in graphitic carbon nitride material for artificial photosynthesis.»

Even GM's vice chairman of global product development, Bob Lutz, said recently that if energy storage in lithium ion batteries improves, it might not make sense to employ hydrogen instead of electricity directly.

One of the research areas in vogue is hydrogen storage, and nanochemists are in demand here as well.

This discovery of a potential safe storage method, reported in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, could pave the way for widespread adoption of hydrogen - fuelled cars.

Such storage options, Dedrick said, are needed to realize the full potential of hydrogen for transportation.

«Safe new storage method could be key to future of hydrogen - powered vehicles.»

Depleted oil and gas reservoirs and aquifers could leak hydrogen, and cycling — filling a storage site, pulling hydrogen out for use and refilling the site — can't be done more than once or twice a year to preserve the integrity of the rock formation, Lord said.

Salt caverns such as the one depicted here could provide a low - cost solution for the geologic storage of hydrogen.

This process could form the basis of a practical solar - energy storage system, Nocera says, in which electric current from a solar cell passes through water to the catalyst, breaking the water into oxygen and hydrogen through electrolysis.

Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

For her study on geologic storage, Lord and her colleagues analyzed and reworked the geologic storage module of Argonne National Laboratory's Hydrogen Delivery Scenario Analysis Model.

Geologic storage of hydrogen gas could make it possible to produce and distribute large quantities of hydrogen fuel for the growing fuel cell electric vehicle market, the researchers concluded.

To examine the cost of geologic hydrogen storage, Lord started by selecting geologic formations that currently store natural gas.

Additionally, installation of electrolyzer systems on electrical grids for power - to - gas applications, which integrate renewable energy, grid services and energy storage will require large - capacity, cost - effective hydrogen storage.

Other options are needed for development of a nationwide hydrogen storage system.

Frank Graf, Section Head of the test laboratory of the German Technical and Scientific Association of Gas and Water (DVGW) at KIT, adds: «So far, admixture of hydrogen in the natural gas grid has been limited to a few percent, as storage, distribution, and use require the solution of various technical problems.»

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So he embedded matchstick - sized bars of uranium in concrete and deliberately corroded them in wet, dry, and hydrogen - rich storage conditions.

The commission's new research funding program, which will run from 2014 to 2020 under the name Horizon 2020, will continue three existing JTIs: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen, which aims to develop clean technologies for energy transport and storage; Clean Sky, for the development of cleaner aircraft; and the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a JTI aimed at speeding up drug development.

«Various forms of carbon, including nanotubes, are considered for hydrogen or other fuel storage because they have a huge internal surface area for the fuel molecules to stick to.

Innovative hydrogen storage techniques, such as organic liquid carriers that do not require high - pressure storage, however, will soon lower the cost of long - distance transport and ease the risks associated with gas storage and inadvertent release.

Another research group recently found that ringwoodite, another form of olivine, does contain enough hydrogen to make it a good candidate for deep - earth water storage.

«Unlike the storage of other gases, hydrogen requires special attention for the choice of the materials with suitable hydrogen storage properties,» says Professor Baek.

«Although tremendous efforts have been devoted to the research and development of novel hydrogen storage materials, organic materials was found to be the most stable of all.»