QuestAir, FCE to evaluate production of hydrogen from DFC power plants

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 73 KB
• Volume: 2005
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(05)70624-6

✦ Synopsis

PNNL's nanoscience approach to using ammonia borane for hydrogen storage is reported to beat DOE's weight and volume storage goals for 2010. In addition to increasing hydrogen production, it also appears to suppress the undesirable formation during decomposition of volatile borazine, which is harmful to fuel cells.

Based on computational thermodynamic analysis, Autrey and Gutowska believe their process may eventually be reversible, which would allow the storage material to be regenerated and provide a sustainable hydrogen storage compound with a longer lifetime. A patent is pending on this process for hydrogen storage.

The researchers presented their findings at The Grand Challenge of Hydrogen Storage symposium, part of the American Physical Society Meeting in Los Angeles in March.