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Study of hydrogen storage and compression

2014
Student Projects

Abstract

The goal of this rapport is to present an overview of the different hydrogen storage technologies, currently available for industrial application or at earlier stages of development. In order to identify the water and mechanical work requirements for compression of hydrogen, flow sheets of several compression process are realized. In order to decrease the work needed for hydrogen compression, realizing part of the compression with a metal-hydride compressor and integrating the compression process with a solar hydrogen production plant was study. It shows that metal-hydride pre-compression of hydrogen using waste heat before mechanical compression has the potential to lower the mechanical work consumption by about 15%compared to multi-stage mechanical compression alone.

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2014
Student Projects

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/63481d8b-a29e-4ba0-8757-50f332e79461

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Hydrogen storage

Several methods exist for storing hydrogen. These include mechanical approaches such as using high pressures and low temperatures, or employing chemical compounds that release H2 upon demand. While large amounts of hydrogen are produced by various industries, it is mostly consumed at the site of production, notably for the synthesis of ammonia. For many years hydrogen has been stored as compressed gas or cryogenic liquid, and transported as such in cylinders, tubes, and cryogenic tanks for use in industry or as propellant in space programs.

Hydrogen infrastructure

A hydrogen infrastructure is the infrastructure of hydrogen pipeline transport, points of hydrogen production and hydrogen stations (sometimes clustered as a hydrogen highway) for distribution as well as the sale of hydrogen fuel, and thus a crucial prerequisite before a successful commercialization of automotive fuel cell technology. A hydrogen highway is a chain of hydrogen-equipped filling stations and other infrastructure along a road or highway which allow hydrogen vehicles to travel.

Hydrogen economy

The hydrogen economy uses hydrogen to decarbonize economic sectors which are hard to electrify, essentially, the "hard-to-abate" sectors such as cement, steel, long-haul transport, etc. In order to phase out fossil fuels and limit climate change, hydrogen can be created from water using renewable sources such as wind and solar, and its combustion only releases water vapor into the atmosphere. Although with a very low volumetric energy density hydrogen is an energetic fuel, frequently used as rocket fuel, but numerous technical challenges prevent the creation of a large-scale hydrogen economy.

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