Effect of cycling and thermal control on the storage and dynamics of a 40-L monolithic adsorbed natural gas tank

Prosniewski, Matthew; Rash, Tyler; Romanos, Jimmy; Gillespie, Andrew; Stalla, David; Knight, Ernest; Smith, Adam; Pfeifer, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2019.02.022

Title: Effect of cycling and thermal control on the storage and dynamics of a 40-L monolithic adsorbed natural gas tank

Journal Article · Wed Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Fuel

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.02.022· OSTI ID:1613541

Prosniewski, Matthew ^[1]; Rash, Tyler ^[1];

^[2]; Gillespie, Andrew ^[1]; Stalla, David ^[1]; Knight, Ernest ^[1]; Smith, Adam ^[1]; Pfeifer, Peter ^[1]

Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)
Lebanese American University, Byblos (Lebanon)

Adsorbed natural gas systems have been proposed as a cost-effective storage alternative to compressed and liquefied natural gas. This has led many groups to search and design sorbent materials with large methane storage capacities since natural gas is approximately 90% methane. The other 10% of natural gas contains larger hydrocarbons which can decrease the useable storage capacity of adsorbent systems. In this work, the effect of large hydrocarbons on the storage and dynamics of a 40-L adsorbed natural gas system, containing 20.5 kg of monolithic carbon adsorbent, produced by the University of Missouri, is reported. It was found that over the course of 20 cycles, due to the retention of 1.9 kg of non-methane components by the monoliths, the useable volumetric storage dropped 16%, and the amount of gas delivered dropped 10%. A second cycling experiment found that by using thermal control while the system discharged, the mass retention decreased to 0.91 kg, and the useable volumetric storage and delivered mass only dropped 7% and 5%, respectively. The effects of the mass retention, storage loss, and thermal control on the system’s charge and discharge dynamics were then analyzed to provide a complete picture of the long-term effects of cycling large scale adsorbed natural gas systems with and without active thermal control.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG36-08GO18142

OSTI ID:: 1613541

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1635988

Journal Information:: Fuel, Vol. 244, Issue C; ISSN 0016-2361

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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