Research and Development of Hydrogen Carrier Based Solutions for Hydrogen Compression and Storage

Martin Dornheim; Lars Baetcke; Etsuo Akiba; Jose-Ramón Ares; Tom Autrey; Jussara Barale; Marcello Baricco; Kriston Brooks; Nikolaos Chalkiadakis; Véronique Charbonnier; Steven Christensen; José Bellosta von Colbe; Mattia Costamagna; Erika Michela Dematteis; Jose-Francisco Fernández; Thomas Gennett; David Grant; Tae Wook Heo; Michael Hirscher; Katherine Hurst; Mykhaylo V. Lototskyy; Oliver Metz; Paola Rizzi; Kouji Sakaki; Sabrina Sartori; Emmanuel Stamatakis; Alastair D. Stuart; Athanasios Stubos; Gavin Walker; Colin Webb; Brandon Wood; Volodymyr A. Yartys; Emmanuel Zoulias

Abstract

Industrial and public interest in hydrogen technologies has risen strongly recently, as hydrogen is the ideal means for medium to long term energy storage, transport and usage in combination with renewable and green energy supply. In a future energy system, the production, storage and usage of green hydrogen is a key technology. Hydrogen is and will in future be even more used for industrial production processes as a reduction agent or for the production of synthetic hydrocarbons, especially in the chemical industry and in refineries. Under certain conditions material based systems for hydrogen storage and compression offer advantages over the classical systems based on gaseous or liquid hydrogen. This includes in particular lower maintenance costs, higher reliability and safety. Hydrogen storage is possible at pressures and temperatures much closer to ambient conditions. Hydrogen compression is possible without any moving parts and only by using waste heat. In this paper, we summarize the newest developments of hydrogen carriers for storage and compression and in addition, give an overview of the different research activities in this field.

Funding source: Some results reported in this publication have been obtained thanks to funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under Grant Agreement No. 826352, HyCARE project. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research, Hydrogen Europe, Hydrogen Europe Research, innovation programme and Italy, France, Germany, Norway, which are all thankfully acknowledged. Authors from the University of Turin acknowledge the Regione Piemonte (Italy) for the financial support at the project Clean-DronHy, POR-FESR 2014/2020. Nikolaos Chalkiadakis, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Athanasios Stubos & Emmanuel Zoulias acknowledge co-financing by the European Regional Development Fund of the EU and Greek national funds under the call RESEARCH—CREATE—INNOVATE (Project H2TRANS/T1EDK-05294). The Helmholtz Climate Initiative (HI-CAM) finances Lars Baetcke. HI-CAM is funded by the Helmholtz Association’s Initiative and Networking Fund. The authors are responsible for the content of this publication. Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, HySA Systems and the Institute for Energy Technology acknowledge financial support from the EU Horizon 2020 programme in the frame of the H2020-MSCA-RISE2017 action, HYDRIDE4MOBILITY project, with Grant Agreement 778307. Mykhaylo Lototskyy acknowledges funding from Department of Science and Innovation of South Africa within the Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) Program (Key Programme KP6 ‘Metal Hydride Materials and Technologies’), as well as co-funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant No. 132454). Kouji Sakaki and Veronique Charbonnier acknowledges funding from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), (a Project, JPNP18011).

Keywords: Hydrogen Carrier ; Hydrogen Compression ; Hydrogen Storage ; Metal Hydrides ; Storage

Related subjects: Transmission, Distribution & Storage

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