Technical Topic 3: Advanced Materials; SUBTOPIC 3C: DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR HYDROGEN SEPARATION AND STORAGE

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Technical Topic 3: Advanced Materials; SUBTOPIC 3C: DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR HYDROGEN SEPARATION AND STORAGE: NOTE: This descriptive area provides an overview of this Funding Opportunity. YOU MUST READ THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY MASTER ANNOUNCEMENT FOR DETAILS ON ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, EVALUATION CRITERIA AND HOW TO PREPARE AN APPLICATION UNDER A SPECIFIC AREA OF INTEREST. Please scroll to the bottom of this page under the heading Full Announcement and Other Files and click on the link to access the Funding Opportunity Master Announcement. YOU MUST SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION VIA GRANTS.GOV TO BE CONSIDERED FOR AN AWARD. New materials are required to significantly improve performance and reduce the costs of existing and/or advanced coal-based power systems. New materials are also needed to enable the development of new systems and capabilities for coal combustion, coal gasification, gas separations, hydrogen storage, high-temperature fuel cells, and advanced turbine systems. These materials are expected to perform satisfactorily under hostile conditions such as 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. Subtopic 3C: Development of Functional Materials for Hydrogen Separation and Storage Functional, as distinguished from structural, materials are so designated because of properties that enable a process function to be performed, for example, membranes for gas separation and materials for hydrogen storage. Gas separation may be effected through several types of mechanisms including solution diffusion, molecular transport, and ionic transport. Gas separation has been identified as being critical for FutureGen technologies such as coal gasification and fuel cells, and includes hydrogen separation from reformed natural gas and synthesis gas from coal, and carbon dioxide separation from gas production and from the products of combustion of hydrocarbon fuels. Advanced membrane technology offers opportunity for significant improvement over current separation techniques for production of hydrogen from coal. Reduction in cost, improved efficiency, and simplified systems are potentially possible with advancements in hydrogen membrane separation technologies. Grant applications are requested to develop novel membrane materials with high flux rates, structural strength, and low cost; the materials should lend themselves to defect-free manufacturing and perform effectively under conditions that exist at the gasifier exhaust or right after the gas clean-up step. Another critical need is the development of materials for hydrogen storage as a necessary precursor to the eventual implementation of the hydrogen economy. For practical transportation applications, the hydrogen storage material must function in the temperature range of 0-100/degrees/C and pressure range of 1-10 bar. The materials currently being investigated for hydrogen storage include metal organic frameworks; alloys and intermetallics; sodium and lithium alanates; nanocubes; carbon nanotubes; and other emerging materials. Research is needed to develop materials that provide high hydrogen storage density and stability at commercially relevant conditions of temperature and pressure. These materials should have the potential for achieving DOE's long-term hydrogen storage goals of 3kWh/kg (9 wt%) at a cost of $2/kWh. The materials to be investigated must be amenable to realistic processing and large-scale production.