Materials for Hydrogen Storage

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Materials for Hydrogen Storage: New materials, ideas, and concepts are required to significantly improve performance and reduce the costs of existing advanced power systems or to enable the development of new systems and capabilities for coal combustion and coal gasification, gas separations, hydrogen storage, high-temperature fuel cells, and advanced turbine systems. Materials' issues are related to operation in the hostile conditions created when fossil fuels are converted to energy. These conditions include high temperatures, elevated pressures, pressure oscillations, corrosive environments (oxidizing or reducing conditions, gaseous alkali, chloride or sulfur-containing species), surface coating or fouling, and high particulate loading. Applications which fit the following description should be submitted under this funding opportunity title of Materials for Hydrogen Storage (DE-PS26-04NT41898-03). Another critical need of advanced energy systems, is the development of materials for hydrogen storage. These may include alloys and intermetallics, sodium and lithium alanates, nanocubes, carbon nanotubes or other emerging materials. Factors that are relevant for useful materials are hydrogen storage density and stability at commercially relevant conditions of temperature and pressure. Experimental studies should include analytical methods such as XRD, SEM, TEM and pressure-composition isotherm measurements to determine the phase purity, microstructure and hydrogen absorption characteristics. The investigations should aim to optimize the hydrogen absorption characteristics, such as the amount of hydrogen absorbed, the plateau pressure and kinetics by modifying the composition of the material and its microstructure.