Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Features hydrogen fuel storage technology that is currently being used or developed.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst scientists have discovered a new way of storing hydrogen that may reduce fuel tank size to that of a briefcase. Using computer modeling and carbon nanotube technology that researchers have shown that it is possible to design a hydrogen storage tank that stores nearly 100-percent H2 atomically plus nearly 8-percent by […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this year I had talked about using ammonia borane (H3NBH3) as a chemical carrier for hydrogen. Ammonia borane is a white power that is rich in hydrogen and the H2 can be easily disassociated from the remaining material. Ammonia borane as a solid is also easily transportable and would do away with the idea […]
Continue ReadingResearchers at Purdue University have developed a heat exchanger for hydrogen storage tanks that will help manufacturers take one step closer towards commercialization of hydrogen cars. Filling up a hydrogen car in 5 minutes while giving it a range of 300 miles are the goals of many manufacturers. One of the problems associated with metal […]
Continue ReadingOne of the largest hydrogen gas suppliers in the world, the Linde Group has come up with new hydrogen compression technology that it will be introducing at the National Hydrogen Association 20th Annual Conference in Columbia, SC on March 30 to April 3, 2009. I’ve talked about the Linde Group before as the first company […]
Continue ReadingThe U. S. Department of Energy has announced that it will deliver up to $15.3 million for 10 different hydrogen storage solution projects. The money is part of President Bush’s Hydrogen Fuel Initiative that I’ve talked about several times before. These cost-shared programs intend to find novel storage solutions for hydrogen. One of the most […]
Continue ReadingA Toyota Prius hybrid retrofitted to run on liquid hydrogen by researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has traveled 650 miles on one tank. The researchers have designed a cryogenic tank without the typical boil-off problem as is present in other current low temperature liquid hydrogen tanks. The cryogenic tanks hold 150 liters of […]
Continue ReadingC.En (Clean Energy) of Israel has discovered a new way to store hydrogen that will aid in the acceleration of rolling out hydrogen cars en mass to the public. While other manufacturers are using heavy metals, carbon fiber or metal hydrides to store hydrogen gas, C.En has figured out a way to use glass to […]
Continue ReadingBMW has announced a breakthrough in hydrogen storage for automobiles. The BMW Hydrogen 7 can now use cryo-compression to store either gaseous or liquid hydrogen inside super-insulated tanks. Before this breakthrough, the liquid hydrogen being super-cooled in the tank was subject to the “boil off” effect where a tank of fuel could evaporate in just […]
Continue ReadingIn October 2007, I had talked about how a group of researchers had discovered that fullerenes hold great promise for hydrogen storage. These nano-scale fullerenes (also known as buckyballs) are the subject of a new article published by researchers at Rice University in the upcoming journal Nano Letters from the American Chemical Society. These large, […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked many times in the past about chemical storage of hydrogen. On December 5 I had talked about a group of ESRF researchers developing lithium borohydride as a storage solution for hydrogen cars using hydrogen-on-demand technology. Now, Ford and UCLA have teamed up to develop lithium borohydride (LiBH4), magnesium hydride (MgH2) and lithium amide […]
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