Sentences with phrase «store hydrogen fuel»

The non-flammable helium inside the ship also provides a perfect environment in which to store hydrogen fuel containers that can provide hydrogen not as a lifting gas (as was used in the Hindenburg) but as a fuel for either a fuel cell propulsion system or simply to burn in conventional internal combustion propulsion engines.

Two aluminum lined tanks of different sizes store hydrogen fuel at 10,000 psi, one behind and one under the rear seats.

Researchers have discovered that carbonized chicken feathers could provide an inexpensive, environmentally friendly way to store hydrogen fuel for future motor vehicles.

«A new solution for storing hydrogen fuel for alternative energy.»

Not exact matches

Fuel cells produce hydrogen, store it and then convert it into electricity.

Rafiee is developing a way to line a hydrogen vehicle's fuel tank with a one - atom - thick layer of graphene, essentially a sheet of single - walled carbon nanotubes that have been opened up and laid flat, so that the tank can better store and release hydrogen.

AN EDIBLE material that can be made from kitchen ingredients could be used to store hydrogen for use in fuel - cell cars.

Electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind power, which can be intermittent and unreliable, could then be easily stored and distributed as hydrogen fuel.

Eventually, he adds, the technology might generate hydrogen at a fueling station or even aboard a vehicle, thus avoiding the expense and hassle of storing and transporting hydrogen gas.

They make good fuels because the energy stored in the bonds between carbon and hydrogen is abundant and easy to release in combustion with oxygen.

Even if hydrogen doesn't become the next primary transportation fuel, finding a safer and economical way to store the gas would still be of great value, says chemical engineer John Dorgan of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories concludes that a number of existing gas stations in California can safely store and dispense hydrogen, suggesting a broader network of hydrogen fueling stations may be within reach.

While the use of hydrogen fuels has been a potential greener energy solution for some time, storing hydrogen has always been a problem.

The unlikely material may one day compete with more high - tech solutions such as carbon nanotubes for storing hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered vehicles.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hhydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hHydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hhydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogenhydrogen.

The oxygen is given off, and the hydrogen is ultimately incorporated into sugars that the plant stores as fuel.

«We've got a real fun race going on here between plugging in vehicles and storing electricity in the battery versus pumping hydrogen into a tank and creating electricity from a fuel cell,» says Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research and development.

Should the market demands for hydrogen fuel increase with the introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles, the U.S. will need to produce and store large amounts of cost - effective hydrogen from domestic energy sources, such as natural gas, solar and wind, said Daniel Dedrick, Sandia hydrogen program manager.

UCLA researchers have designed a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be used to power electronic devices, and to create hydrogen fuel for eco-friendly cars.

It's about storing energy in hydrogen as a fuel.

Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean, green fuel, but it is difficult to store and move around because of its bulk.

Within a few years, laptops and other energy - guzzling portable devices could run on long - lasting, easily recharged fuel cells based on a safe and practical new way of storing and releasing hydrogen.

A leaf makes twice as much hydrogen as it does oxygen, and then it stores the result as a solid fuel.

We can also store the leftover renewable energy in the form of compressed hydrogen for a later use when the electrical demand is higher, or as fuel for vehicles,» Serra adds.

I can store hydrogen in a fuel cell and get all the energy out.

Long has been exploring MOFs as gas adsorbers for a decade, hoping to use them to capture carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or store hydrogen in hydrogen - fueled vehicles, or to catalyze gas reactions for industry.

Researchers are making progress in producing and storing hydrogen that could power a new generation of fuel - cell cars, despite seesaw domestic funding from successive presidential administrations.

That is important not only for the design of dye - sensitised solar cells, but also in order to be able to develop systems of materials for photocatalytic generation of hydrogen for storing solar energy as hydrogen fuel.»

LIVERMORE, Calif. — A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories concludes that a number of existing gas stations in California can safely store and dispense hydrogen, suggesting a broader network of hydrogen fueling stations may be within reach.

The hydrogen and oxygen gas can be stored separately, and later brought together as fuel in what is called a fuel cell.

One of the most promising ideas for storing renewable energy is to use the excess electricity generated from renewables to split water into oxygen and hydrogen; the hydrogen can then be fed into fuel - cell vehicles.

Currently, major research has gone into hydrogen - fueled cars, but the challenge of storing and transporting gas remains a major hurdle to commercial - scale use.

Hydrogen fuel could answer the question of how to store massive amounts of electricity when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing, Lewis said.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

For decades, scientists have been working to harness the energy from sunlight to drive chemical reactions to form fuels such as hydrogen, which provide a way to store solar energy for future use.

A simple fuel, such as hydrogen, could store the energy.

The technology uses solar energy to split water, making hydrogen that can be used for storing energy or for fuel.

Molecular Tank: Researchers and engineers are trying to create a hydrogen fuel system that stores hydrogen safely and discharges hydrogen easily, which can then be used in fuel cells or other applications.

There are two carbon - fiber fuel tanks to hold 5 kilograms of hydrogen at 10,000 psi, a fuel cell to produce electricity through the processing of hydrogen, a pack of affordable, reliable nickel - metal - hydride batteries to store the electricity, and a 113 - kW (151 - hp) motor to power the front - wheel - drive platform.

Claimed fuel economy is 50 L / 100 km (4.7 mpg ‑ US) and the hydrogen is stored as a liquid in an insulated 170 L (45 US gal) tank.

Three carbon - fiber fuel tanks store up to a maximum of 9.25 pounds (4.2 kg) of gaseous hydrogen at 10,000 psi (70 MPa), and give the Equinox a range of 200 miles (320 km).

The fuel cell combines the hydrogen — which has to be pumped into the vehicle and stored in a tank — with oxygen from the outside air, and uses this to generate electricity to run the car's electric motor.

This electric version doesn't use batteries to store electricity, but is instead refueled with hydrogen to power the fuel cells.

As the most advanced expression of the electric vehicle concept, Honda's hydrogen fuel cell vehicle utilizes electricity generated by combining hydrogen and oxygen in a fuel cell stack, and electricity stored in its lithium - ion battery pack to power the vehicle's electric motor.

Andy, for sure hydrogen is not the fuel of anyone's future since its energy density is so low that it is incredibly expensive to store and transport.

That's because you can make it in two ways: steam - methane reformation, which means that it is a fossil fuel, and the source for 95 percent of hydrogen) or electrolysis of water, which makes it essentially a battery storing electric power.

Hydrogen, while not a primary fuel, would be as Andy points out, a useful way of storing energy.

One key race is to create a MOF that can store hydrogen for use in future fuel - cell cars.

So not only would fuel cell development and technology for storing hydrogen on vehicles need to be further developed, but the automobile industry's development and production of fuel cells also would need to be coordinated with the energy industry's deployment of reformers and the fuel for them.

UCLA researchers have designed a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be used to power electronic devices, and to create hydrogen fuel for eco-friendly cars.