Metal hydride container and metal hydride heat storage system

Patent · Tue Oct 22 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6316524

Sakai, T; Honda, N; Yonezu, I

A metal hydride container, comprising a heat pipe of annular cross section, a metal hydride filling the central cavity of said heat pipe, closure members serving to close the openings at the opposite ends of said central cavity, a hydrogen passage tube possessed of a shut-off valve and fitted into an aperture formed in one of said closure members and communicated with the cavity of the heat pipe through a partition member pervious to hydrogen gas and impervious to said metal hydride; and a metal hydride heat storage system comprising at least one metal hydride container above-mentioned, which is useful for storing solar heat and waste heat.

• Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)
• Patent Number(s): US 4548044
• OSTI ID: 6316524
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

08 HYDROGEN
080201* -- Hydrogen-- Chemisorption Storage
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMISORPTION
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
DESIGN
ELEMENTS
ENERGY
ENERGY STORAGE
EQUIPMENT
FLOW REGULATORS
FLUID FLOW
GAS FLOW
HEAT
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT PIPES
HEAT STORAGE
HYDRIDES
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN STORAGE
METALS
NONMETALS
RADIATIONS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLAR RADIATION
SORPTION
STELLAR RADIATION
STORAGE
THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT
VALVES
WASTE HEAT
WASTES