2008 Annual Progress Report

IV. Hydrogen Storage

This section of the 2008 Progress Report for the DOE Hydrogen Program focuses on hydrogen storage.

Hydrogen Storage Sub-Program Overview, Sunita Satyapal, U.S. Department of Energy (PDF 481 KB)

A. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence

  1. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence
    1. DOE Metal Hydride Center of Excellence, Lennie Klebanoff, Sandia National Laboratories (PDF 278 KB)
    2. Thermodynamically Tuned Nanophase Materials for Reversible Hydrogen Storage, Ping Liu, HRL Laboratories, LLC (PDF 418 KB)
    3. Chemical Vapor Synthesis and Discovery of H2 Storage Materials: Li-Al-Mg-N-H System, Zak Fang, University of Utah (PDF 512 KB)
    4. Reversible Hydrogen Storage Materials—Structure, Chemistry and Electronic Structure, Ian Robertson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (PDF 555 KB)
    5. First-Principles Modeling of Hydrogen Storage in Metal Hydride Systems, Karl Johnson, University of Pittsburgh (PDF 385 KB)
    6. Development of Metal Hydrides at Sandia National Laboratories, Lennie Klebanoff, Sandia National Laboratories (PDF 518 KB)
    7. Preparation and Reactions of Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage: Metal Borohydrides and Aluminum Hydrides, Gilbert Brown, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (PDF 371 KB)
    8. Development and Evaluation of Advanced Hydride Systems for Reversible Hydrogen Storage, Joe Reiter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (PDF 391 KB)
    9. Effect of Gaseous Impurities on Durability of Complex Li-based Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage, Dhanesh Chandra, University of Nevada, Reno (PDF 599 KB)
    10. Fundamental Studies of Advanced High-Capacity, Reversible Metal Hydrides, Craig Jensen, University of Hawaii (PDF 480 KB)
    11. Aluminum Hydride Regeneration, Jason Graetz, Brookhaven National Laboratory (PDF 409 KB)
    12. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Terry Udovic, National Institute of Standards and Technology (PDF 604 KB)
    13. Catalyzed Nano-Framework Stabilized High Density Reversible Hydrogen Storage Systems, Dan Mosher, United Technologies Research Center (PDF 525 KB)
    14. High-Throughput Combinatorial Chemistry Development of Complex Hydrides, Darshan Kundaliya, Intematix Corporation (PDF 554 KB)
    15. Thermodynamically Tuned Nanophase Materials for Reversible Hydrogen Storage: Structure and Kinetics of Nanoparticle and Model System Materials, Bruce Clemens, Stanford University (PDF 902 KB)
    16. Electrochemical Reversible Formation of Alane, Ragaiy Zidan, Savannah River National Laboratory (PDF 379 KB)
    17. Li-Mg-N System Hydrogen Storage Materials and Metal Hydride System Engineering Analysis, Don Anton, Savannah River National Laboratory (PDF 473 KB)
    18. Synthesis of Nanophase Materials for Thermodynamically Tuned Reversible Hydrogen Storage, Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology (PDF 493 KB)
    19. Lightweight Intermetallics for Hydrogen Storage, J.C. Zhao, The Ohio State University (PDF 276 KB)
  2. Discovery of Novel Complex Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage through Molecular Modeling and Combinatorial Methods, David Lesch, UOP LLC (PDF 108 KB)
  3. Center for Hydrogen Storage Research at Delaware State University, Andrew Goudy, Delaware State University (PDF 407 KB)
  4. Effects and Mechanisms of Mechanical Activation on Hydrogen Sorption/ Desorption of Nanoscale Lithium Nitrides and Lithium Borohydrides, Leon Shaw, University of Connecticut (PDF 1.4 MB)

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B. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence

  1. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence
    1. 2008 Overview - DOE Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence, Kevin Ott, Los Alamos National Laboratory (PDF 371 KB)
    2. Chemical Hydrogen Storage using Ultra-High Surface Area Main Group Materials and The Development of Efficient Amine-Borane Regeneration Cycles, Philip Power, University of California, Davis (PDF 112 KB)
    3. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Research at PNNL, Chris Aardahl, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PDF 455 KB)
    4. Electrochemical Hydrogen Storage Systems, Digby Macdonald, Pennsylvania State University (PDF 187 KB)
    5. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Using Polyhedral Borane Anions and Aluminum-Ammonia-Borane Complexes, Fred Hawthorne, University of Missouri (PDF 196 KB)
    6. Chemical Hydrogen Storage R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory , Kevin Ott, Los Alamos National Laboratory (PDF 607 KB)
    7. Amineborane-Based Chemical Hydrogen Storage, Larry Sneddon, University of Pennsylvania (PDF 376 KB)
    8. Low-Cost Precursors to Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials, Suzanne Linehan, Rohm and Haas Company (PDF 427 KB)
    9. Main Group Element and Organic Chemistry for Hydrogen Storage and Activation, David Dixon, University of Alabama (PDF 602 KB)
    10. Solutions for Chemical Hydrogen Storage: Dehydrogenation of B-N Bonds, Karen Goldberg, University of Washington (PDF 195 KB)
  2. Hydrogen Storage by Reversible Hydrogenation of Liquid-Phase Hydrogen Carriers, Alan Cooper, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (PDF 332 KB)
  3. Chemical Hydride Slurry for Hydrogen Production and Storage, Andrew McClaine, Safe Hydrogen, LLC (PDF 397 KB)
  4. Development of Regenerable, High-Capacity Boron Nitrogen Hydrides For Hydrogen Storage, Ashok Damle, RTI International (PDF 90 KB)

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C. Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence

  1. Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence
    1. Overview of the DOE Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence, Mike Heben, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (PDF 656 KB)
    2. Carbon Aerogels for Hydrogen Storage, Ted Baumann, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (PDF 210 KB)
    3. NIST Center for Neutron Research in Support of the Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence, Dan Neumann, National Institute of Standards and Technology (PDF 391 KB)
    4. Optimizing the Binding Energy of Hydrogen on Nanostructured Carbon Materials through Structure Control and Chemical Doping, Jie Liu, Duke University (PDF 439 KB)
    5. Advanced Boron and Metal-Loaded High Porosity Carbons, Vincent Crespi, Pennsylvania State University (PDF 442 KB)
    6. Nanoengineering the Forces of Attraction in a Metal-Carbon Array for H2 Uptake at Room Temperature, Jim Tour, Rice University (PDF 443 KB)
    7. A Biomimetic Approach to Metal-Organic Frameworks with High H2 Uptake, Joe Zhou, Texas A&M University (PDF 227 KB)
    8. Hydrogen Storage by Spillover, Ralph Yang, University of Michigan (PDF 337 KB)
    9. Optimization of Nano-Carbon Materials for Hydrogen Sorption, Boris Yakobson, Rice University (PDF 496 KB)
    10. NREL Research as Part of the Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence, Anne Dillon, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (PDF 1.3 MB)
    11. ORNL Progress within the DOE Center of Excellence for Hydrogen Sorption: Synthesis and Processing of Single-Walled Carbon Nanohorns for Hydrogen Storage and Catalyst Supports, David Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (PDF 430 KB)
    12. Hydrogen Storage through Nanostructured Polymeric Materials, D.J. Liu, Argonne National Laboratory (PDF 757 KB)
    13. Enabling Discovery of Materials With a Practical Heat of H2 Adsorption, Alan Cooper, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (PDF 376 KB)
    14. Enhanced Hydrogen Dipole Physisorption, Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology (PDF 276 KB)
    15. Characterization of Hydrogen Adsorption by NMR, Yue Wu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PDF 501 KB)
  2. Electron-Charged Graphite-Based Hydrogen Storage Material, Chinbay Fan, Gas Technology Institute (PDF 575 KB)
  3. Nanostructured Activated Carbon for Hydrogen Storage, Israel Cabasso, State University of New York (PDF 327 KB)
  4. Carbide-Derived Carbons with Tunable Porosity Optimized for Hydrogen Storage, Jack Fischer, University of Pennsylvania (PDF 493 KB)

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D. New Materials – Independent Projects

  1. A Synergistic Approach to the Development of New Hydrogen Storage Materials, Part I, Jeffrey Long, University of California, Berkeley (PDF 518 KB)
  2. Hydrogen Storage Materials with Binding Intermediate between Physisorption and Chemisorption, Juergen Eckert, University of California, Santa Barbara (PDF 762 KB)
  3. Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Frameworks, Omar Yaghi, University of California, Los Angeles (PDF 548 KB)
  4. Novel Metal Perhydrides for Hydrogen Storage, Jim Hwang, Michigan Technological University (PDF 825 KB)
  5. Glass Microspheres for Hydrogen Storage, Jim Shelby, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (PDF 332 KB)

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E. Storage Testing, Safety and Analysis

  1. Analyses of Hydrogen Storage Materials and On-Board Systems, Stephen Lasher, TIAX LLC (PDF 317 KB)
  2. System Level Analysis of Hydrogen Storage Options, Rajesh Ahluwalia, Argonne National Laboratory (PDF 554 KB)
  3. Best Practices for Characterizing Hydrogen Storage Properties of Materials, Karl Gross, H2 Technology Consulting LLC (PDF 255 KB)
  4. Fundamental Environmental Reactivity Analysis of Hydrogen Storage Materials, Don Anton, Savannah River National Laboratory (PDF 302 KB)
  5. Quantifying and Addressing the DOE Material Reactivity Requirements with Analysis and Testing of Hydrogen Storage Materials and Systems, Dan Mosher, United Technologies Research Center (PDF 724 KB)
  6. Chemical and Environmental Reactivity Properties of Hydrogen Storage Materials within the Context of Systems, Dan Dedrick, Sandia National Laboratories (PDF 535 KB)
  7. Standardized Testing Program for Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Technologies, Michael Miller, Southwest Research Institute® (PDF 588 KB)

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F. Storage Cross-Cutting

  1. Hydrogen Storage Research, Lee Stefanakos, University of South Florida (PDF 576 KB)
  2. Purdue Hydrogen Systems Laboratory, Jay Gore, Purdue University (PDF 299 KB)
  3. An Integrated Approach for Hydrogen Production and Storage in Complex Hydrides of Transitional Elements and Carbon-based Nanostructural Materials, Abhijit Bhattacharyya, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (PDF 442 KB)
  4. Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Storage Technology Project, Robert Perret, UNLV Research Foundation (PDF 913 KB)

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