2006 Annual Merit Review Proceedings

Hydrogen Storage

These presentations and posters from the hydrogen storage session at the Annual Merit Review May 16-19, 2006 are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

Hydrogen Storage Presentations

  1. Metal Hydrides — Independent Projects
  2. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence
  3. Chemical Hydrogen Storage — Independent Projects
  4. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence
  5. Storage Analysis
  6. Carbon Center of Excellence
  7. New Materials/Concepts

Hydrogen Storage Sub-Program Overview, Sunita Satyapal, DOE

A. Metal Hydrides — Independent Projects

  1. Complex Hydride Compounds with Enhanced Hydrogen Storage Capacity, Susanne Opalka, United Technologies Research Center
  2. Discovery of Novel Complex Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage through Molecular Modeling and Combinatorial Methods, Gregory Lewis, UOP LLC
  3. Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Storage Technology Project at UNLV, Clemens Heske, UNLV

B. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence

  1. DOE Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence: Center Overview & Los Alamos National Laboratory Contributions, Bill Tumas, LANL
  2. DOE Center of Excellence for Chemical Hydrogen Storage: PNNL Progress, Chris Aardahl, PNNL
  3. Amineborane Hydrogen Storage, Larry Sneddon, University of Pennsylvania
  4. Solutions for Chemical Hydrogen Storage: Hydrogenation/Dehydrogenation of B-N Bonds, Michael Heinekey, University of Washington
  5. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Using Polyhedral Borane Anion Salts, Fred Hawthorne, UCLA
  6. Novel Approaches to Hydrogen Storage: Conversion of Borates to Boron Hydrides, Suzanne Linehan, Rohm and Haas Company
  7. Development of an Advanced Chemical Hydrogen Storage and Generation System, Ying Wu, Millennium Cell
  8. Combinatorial Synthesis and High Throughput Screening of Effective Catalysts for Chemical Hydrides, Xiao-Dong Xiang, Intematix Corporation

C. Chemical Hydrogen Storage — Independent Projects

  1. Hydrogen Storage by Reversible Hydrogenation of Liquid-Phase Hydrogen Carriers, Alan Cooper, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

D. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence

  1. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence, Lennie Kiebanoff, SNL
  2. Lightweight Intermetallics for Hydrogen Storage, J. C. Zhao, GE Global Research
  3. Synthesis and Characterization of Alanes for Automotive Applications, Jason Graetz, BNL
  4. Thermodynamically Tuned Nanophase Materials for Reversible Hydrogen Storage, Gregory Olson, HRL Laboratories
  5. Development and Evaluation of Advanced Hydride Systems for Reversible Hydrogen Storage, Robert Bowman, JPL
  6. Reversible Hydrogen Storage Materials — Structure, Chemistry and Electronic Structure, Ian Robertson, University of Illinois

E. Storage Analysis

  1. System Level Analysis of Hydrogen Storage Options, Rajesh Ahluwalia, ANL
  2. Analyses of Hydrogen Storage Materials and On-Board Systems, Stephen Lasher, TIAX LLC

F. Carbon Center of Excellence

  1. DOE Carbon-Based Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence: Center Highlights and NREL Activities, Mike Heben, NREL
  2. Enabling Discovery of Materials with a Suitable Heat of H2 Adsorption, Alan Cooper, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
  3. Neutron Characterization in Support of the Carbon and Metal Hydride Centers of Excellence, Dan Neumann, NIST
  4. Cloning Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes for Hydrogen Storage, James Tour, Rice University
  5. Advanced Boron and Metal Loaded High Porosity Carbons, Peter Eklund, Penn. State
  6. Hydrogen Storage by Spillover, Ralph Yang, University of Michigan

G. New Materials/Concepts

  1. Carbide-Derived Carbons with Tunable Porosity Optimized for Hydrogen Storage, John Fischer, University of Pennsylvania/Drexel University
  2. Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Frameworks, Omar Yaghi, UCLA

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Hydrogen Storage Posters

  1. Compressed and Cryogenic Tanks
  2. Metal Hydrides — Independent Projects
  3. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence
  4. Carbon — Independent Projects
  5. Carbon Center of Excellence
  6. Chemical Hydrogen Storage — Independent Projects
  7. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence
  8. Testing and Analysis — Independent Projects
  9. New Materials — Independent Projects
  10. Cross-Cutting Projects

A. Compressed and Cryogenic Tanks

  1. Low Cost, High Efficiency, High Pressure Hydrogen Storage, Jui Ko, Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc.
  2. Advanced Concepts for Containment of Hydrogen and Hydrogen Storage Materials, Andrew Weisbert, LLNL

B. Metal Hydrides — Independent Projects

  1. High Density Hydrogen Storage System Demonstration Using NaAlH4 Complex Compound Hydrides, Dan Mosher, UTRC
  2. Effects and Mechanisms of Mechanical Activation on Hydrogen Sorption/Desorption of Nanoscale Lithium Nitrides, Leon Shaw, University of Connecticut
  3. First-Principles Computational Search for Reversible Room-Temperature Hydrides, Vidvuds Ozolins, UCLA

C. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence

  1. First-Principles Modeling of Hydrogen Storage in Metal Hydride Systems, Karl Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
  2. Hydrogen Storage Materials and Systems Development, Don Anton, SRNL
  3. Thermodynamically Tuned Nanophase Materials for Reversible Hydrogen Storage: Structure and Kinetics of Nanoparticle and Model System Materials, Bruce Clemens, Stanford University
  4. Fundamental Studies of Advanced High-Capacity, Reversible Metal Hydrides, Craig Jensen, University of Hawaii
  5. High Throughput Combinatorial Chemistry Development of Complex Hydrides, Guanghui Zhu, Intematix Corporation
  6. Synthesis of Nanophase Materials for Thermodynamically Tuned Reversible Hydrogen Storage, Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology
  7. Effect of Trace Elements on Long-Term Cycling and Aging Properties of Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage, Dhanesh Chandra, University of Nevada, Reno
  8. Synthesis and Discovery of Nanocrystalline Reversible Hydrides, Zak Fang, University of Utah
  9. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence, Lennie Kiebanoff, Sandia-Livermore
  10. Hydrogen Storage Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Gilbert Brown, ORNL

D. Carbon — Independent Projects

  1. Electron-Charged Graphite-Based Hydrogen Storage Material, Chinbay Fan, Gas Technology Institute
  2. Nanostructured Activated Carbon for Hydrogen Storage, Israel Cabasso, State University of New York
  3. Conducting Polymers as New Materials for Hydrogen Storage, Alan MacDiarmid, University of Pennyslvania
  4. Enhanced Hydrogen Dipole Physisorption, Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology
  5. Theoretical Models of H2-SWNT Systems for Hydrogen Storage and Optimization of SWNT Production, Boris Yakobsen, Rice University
  6. Characterization of Hydrogen Adsorption by NMR, Yue Wu, University of North Carolina
  7. Synthesis of Small Diameter Carbon Nanotubes and Mesoporous Carbon Materials for Hydrogen Storage, Jie Liu, Duke University

E. Carbon Center of Excellence

  1. DOE Carbon-Based Materials Center of Excellence: Overview and NREL Activities, Lin Simpson, NREL
  2. Metal-Doped Carbon Aerogels for Hydrogen Storage, Ted Baumann, LLNL

F. Chemical Hydrogen Storage — Independent Projects

  1. Development of Regenerable, High-Capacity Boron Nitrogen Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage, Ashok, Damle, RTI International
  2. Process for the Regeneration of Sodium Borate to Sodium Borohydride, Ying Wu, Millenium Cell, Inc.

G. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence

  1. Chemical Hydride Slurry for Hydrogen Production and Storage, Andrew McClaine, Safe Hydrogen, LLC
  2. Electrochemical Hydrogen Storage Systems, Digby Macdonald, Pennsylvania State University
  3. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Using Ultra-High Surface Area Main Group Elements, Philip Power, UC Davis
  4. Main Group Element and Organic Chemistry for Hydrogen Storage and Activation, Anthony Arduengo, University of Alabama
  5. Safety Analysis and Applied Research on the Use of Borane-Amines for Hydrogen Storage, Clint Lane, Northern Arizona University
  6. DOE Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence, Bill Tumas, LANL

H. Testing and Analysis — Independent Projects

  1. National Testing Laboratory for Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Technologies, Michael Miller, SwRI

I. New Materials — Independent Projects

  1. Hydrogen Storage Materials with Binding Intermediate Between Chemisorption and Physisorption, Tony Cheetham, UC Santa Barbara
  2. Inorganic Clathrates for Hydrogen Storage, Viktor Struzhkin, Carnegie Institution of Washington
  3. Unexpected Gas Sorption Displayed by Organic Clathrates, Jerry Atwood, University of Missouri-Columbia

J. Cross-Cutting Projects

  1. Advanced Metal Hydrides, Jim Ritter, University of South Carolina
  2. Clean Energy Research Project III: Hydrogen Storage Using Chemical Hydrides, Michael Matthews, University of South Carolina
  3. A Cassette Based System for Hydrogen Storage and Delivery, Wayne Britton, FST Energy
  4. Purdue Hydrogen Technology Program, Jay Gore, Purdue University
  5. Center for Hydrogen Storage Research at Delaware State University, Andrew Goudy, Delaware State University
  6. Hydrogen Storage Research, Lee Stefanakos, University of South Florida
  7. Expanding Clean Energy Research and Education Program at the University of South Carolina, Ralph White, University of South Carolina

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