Project Highlights

Adsorbents

  • Investigated relationship between micropore size and hydrogen adsorption
  • Measured net volumetric hydrogen storage gain at ambient temperature for a wide range of materials

Ammonia Borane

  • Measured catalytic effect of ionic liquids on AB thermolysis
  • Measured AB thermal properties over a range of physical and chemical conditions encountered in a thermolysis system

Magnesium Hydride

  • Measured reaction-dependent effective thermal properties of MgH2-based materials
  • Developed a temperature conditioned optically accessible microscale hydride reactor for direct visualization of the hydriding of MgH2

Metal Hydride Heat Pump

  • Developed object-oriented Metal Hydride MATLAB Toolbox
  • Assembled database of properties of over 300 hydrides
  • Analyzed heat pump system in terms of Coefficient of Performance (COP)

Sodium Borohydride

  • Developed a novel nano-foam cobalt oxide powder
  • Demonstrated use of catalyst in multiple systems
  • Demonstrated solid storage, on-demand hydrogen generation systems

Portable Hydrogen Generation

  • Decomposed ammonia borane via catalyzed hydrolysis
  • Tested gas purity and compatibility with PEM-fuel cells
  • Characterized hydrolysis reaction kinetics of AB using various catalystss

TiCrMn

  • Designed patented heat exchanger design for metal hydride beds
  • Developed experimentally validated bed-scale and particle-scale heat and mass transport models for metal hydride reactors

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