Hydrogen Adsorbents with High Volumetric Density: New Materials and System Projections

Technical Report · Tue Mar 26 04:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1502953· OSTI ID:1502953

Siegel, Donald J. ^[1]; Ahmed, Alauddin ^[2]; Liu, Yiyang ^[2]; Matzger, Adam ^[2]; Purewal, Justin ^[3]; Wong-Foy, Antek ^[2]; Veenstra, Mike ^[3]; Seth, Saona ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); University of Michigan
2. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
3. Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (United States)

A high-capacity, low-cost method for storing hydrogen remains one of the primary barriers to the widespread commercialization of fuel cell vehicles. Storage via adsorption is a promising approach due to its fast kinetics, reversibility, and high gravimetric densities. An unfortunate characteristic of adsorptive storage is that high gravimetric densities typically come at the expense of volumetric density (total basis). The goal of this project is to demonstrate best-in-class adsorbents based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that achieve high volumetric and gravimetric H₂ densities simultaneously, while maintaining reversibility and fast kinetics. This is accomplished using a combination ion of high-throughput computational screening and experimental synthesis and characterization. The performance of the most promising materials are projected to the system level by parameterizing system models developed by the Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence (HSECoE).

• Research Organization: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Fuel Cell Technologies Office (EE-3F)
• Contributing Organization: Savanah River National Laboratory
• DOE Contract Number: EE0007046
• OSTI ID: 1502953
• Report Number(s): DOE-UM--0007046
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

08 HYDROGEN
HSECoE
MOF
MOF database
adsorbents
hydrogen storage
metal organic framework
sorbents
volumetric capacity