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Power cycles based upon cyclical hydriding and dehydriding of a material

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5592044
Apparatus for carrying out an exothermal chemical reaction of hydrogen which includes a hydrogen reactor which defines a first reaction zone for receiving hydrogen gas and a second reactant gas reactive with the hydrogen gas; a first hydride reactor containing a hydridable material in a second reaction zone positioned immediately adjacent the first reaction zone and in heat exchange relation thereto; conduit means for conveying the second reactant to the first reaction zone; a second hydride reactor containing a hydridable material for producing compressed hydrogen gas; and means for conveying the compressed hydrogen gas from the second hydride reactor to one of the first and second reaction zones.
Assignee:
EDB-82-096817
Patent Number(s):
US 4311014
OSTI ID:
5592044
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English