2007 Annual Merit Review Proceedings

Hydrogen Storage

These presentations and posters from the hydrogen storage session at the Annual Merit Review in May 2007 are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

Hydrogen Storage Presentations

  1. Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence
  2. Carbon/Sorbents — Independent Projects
  3. Metal Hydrides — Independent Projects
  4. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence
  5. Chemical Hydrogen Storage — Independent Projects
  6. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence
  7. Additional New Materials/Concepts
  8. Storage Testing, Safety, and Analysis

Hydrogen Storage Session Review, Sunita Satyapal, U.S. Department of Energy

A. Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence

  1. DOE Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence: Overview, Michael Heben, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  2. NREL Research as Part of the Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence, A. Dillon, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  3. Hydrogen Storage by Spillover, Ralph Yang, University of Michigan
  4. Theoretical Models of H2-SWNT Systems for Hydrogen Storage and Optimization of SWNT, Boris Yakobson, Rice University
  5. Cloning Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes for Hydrogen Storage, James Tour, Rice University
  6. Carbon Aerogels for Hydrogen Storage, T. Baumann, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  7. Enabling Discovery of Materials with a Practical Heat of Hydrogen Adsorption, Alan Cooper, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
  8. Advanced Boron and Metal Loaded High Porosity Carbons, Mike Chung, Pennsylvania State University

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B. Carbon/Sorbents — Independent Projects

  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, Center for Reticular Chemistry, UCLA

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C. Metal Hydrides — Independent Projects

  1. Discovery of Novel Complex Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage through Molecular Modeling and Combinatorial Methods, Gregory Lewis, UOP LLC
  2. Complex Hydride Compounds with Enhanced Hydrogen Storage Capacity, Susanne Opalka, United Technologies Research Center

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D. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence

  1. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence, Lennie Klebanoff, Sandia National Laboratory
  2. Discovery and Development of Metal Hydrides for Reversible On-Board Storage, Ewa Rönnebro, Sandia National Laboratories
  3. Lightweight Intermetallics for Hydrogen Storage, J. Zhao, GE Global Research
  4. First-Principles Modeling of Hydrogen Storage in Metal Hydride Systems, J. Karl Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
  5. Thermodynamically Tuned Nanophase Materials for Reversible Hydrogen Storage, Ping Liu, HRL Laboratories, LLC
  6. Fundamental Studies of Advanced High Capacity, Reversible Metal Hydrides, Craig Jensen, University of Hawaii
  7. Synthesis and Characterization of Alanes for Automotive Applications, Jason Graetz, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  8. Chemical Vapor Synthesis and Discovery of Hydrogen Storage Materials: Li-Al-Mg-N-H System, Z. Zak Fang, University of Utah

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E. Chemical Hydrogen Storage — Independent Projects

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

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F. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence

  1. 2007 DOE Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence Overview, Bill Tumas, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  2. DOE Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence - Novel Approaches to Hydrogen Storage: Conversion of Borates to Boron Hydrides, Suzanne Linehan, Rohm and Haas Company
  3. Electrochemical Hydrogen Storage Systems, Digby Macdonald, Pennsylvania State University
  4. Amineborane-Based Chemical Hydrogen Storage, Larry Sneddon, University of Pennsylvania
  5. PNNL Research as Part of the DOE Chemical Hydrogen Center of Excellence, Chris Aardahl, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  6. Chemical Hydrogen Storage R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory, R. Tom Baker, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  7. Main Group Element and Organic Chemistry for Hydrogen Storage and Activation, David Dixon, University of Alabama

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G. Additional New Materials/Concepts

  1. Hydrogen Storage Materials with Binding Intermediate between Physisorption and Chemisorption, Juergen Eckert, University of California, Santa Barbara

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H. Storage Testing, Safety, and Analysis

  1. System Level Analysis of Hydrogen Storage Options, R. Ahluwalia, Argonne National Laboratory
  2. Analyses of Hydrogen Storage Materials and On-Board Systems, Stephen Lasher, TIAX LLC
  3. Best Practices for Characterizing Hydrogen Storage Properties of Materials, Karl Gross, Hy-Energy LLC
  4. Fundamental Safety Testing and Analysis of Hydrogen Storage Materials and Systems, D. Anton, Savannah River National Laboratory

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Hydrogen Storage Posters

  1. Hydrogen Sorption and Metal Hydride Centers of Excellence
  2. Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence
  3. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence
  4. Chemical Hydrogen Storage — Independent Projects
  5. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence
  6. Metal Hydrides — Independent Projects
  7. Additional New Materials/Concepts — Independent Projects
  8. Storage Testing, Safety, and Analysis
  9. Cross-Cutting Projects

A. Hydrogen Sorption and Metal Hydride Centers of Excellence

  1. Neutron Characterization in Support of the Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence, Dan Neumann, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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B. Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence

  1. Conducting Polymers as New Materials for Hydrogen Storage, Pen-Cheng Wang, University of Pennsylvania
  2. Characterization of Hydrogen Adsorption by NMR, Yue Wu, University of North Carolina
  3. Synthesis of Small Diameter Carbon Nanotubes and Microporous Carbon Materials for Hydrogen Storage, Jie Liu, Duke University
  4. DOE Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence: Overview, Lin Simpson, NREL
  5. Single-Walled Carbon Nanohorns for Hydrogen Storage and Catalyst Supports, David Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  6. Enhanced Hydrogen Dipole Physisorption, Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology

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C. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence

  1. Applied Research on the Use of Amine-Borane Materials for Hydrogen Storage, Clint Lane, Northern Arizona University
  2. DOE Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence - An Integrated Performance-Based Approach, Bill Tumas, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  3. Solutions for Chemical Hydrogen Storage: Hydrogenation/Dehydrogenation of B-N Bonds, Karen Goldberg, University of Washington
  4. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Using Polyhedral Borane Anion Salts, M. Frederick Hawthorne, University of Missouri, Columbia
  5. Development of an Advanced Chemical Hydrogen Storage and Generation System, Oscar Moreno, Millennium Cell Inc.
  6. Combinatorial Synthesis and High Throughput Screening of Effective Catalysts for Chemical Hydrides, Jonathan Melman, Intematix Corporation
  7. 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

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D. Chemical Hydrogen Storage — Independent Projects

  1. Process for the Regeneration of Sodium Borate to Sodium Borohydride, Oscar Moreno, Millennium Cell Inc.
  2. Chemical Hydride Slurry for Hydrogen Production and Storage, Andrew McClaine, Safe Hydrogen, LLC

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E. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence

  1. Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage Studies of the Al(BH4)3 System, Gilbert Brown, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  2. High Throughput Combinatorial Chemistry Development of Complex Hydrides, Darshan Kundaliya, Intematix Corporation
  3. Thermodynamically Tuned Nanophase Materials for Reversible Hydrogen Storage: Structure and Kinetics of Nanoparticle and Model System Materials, Bruce Clemens, Stanford University
  4. Alane Electrochemical Recharging, Ragaiy Zidan, Savannah River National Laboratory
  5. Synthesis of Nanophase Materials for Thermodynamically Tuned Reversible Hydrogen Storage, Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology
  6. Effect of Trace Elements on Long-Term Cycling and Aging Properties of Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage, Dhanesh Chandra, University of Nevada, Reno
  7. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence, Lennie Klebanoff, Sandia-Livermore
  8. Reversible Hydrogen Storage Materials - Structure, Chemistry, and Electronic Structure, Ian Robertson, University of Illinois
  9. Development and Evaluation of Advanced Hydride Systems for Reversible Hydrogen Storage, Robert Bowman, California Institute of Technology
  10. Hydrogen Storage Materials and Systems Development, Bruce Hardy, Savannah River National Laboratory
  11. Neutron Characterization and Calphad in support of the Metal Hydride Center of Excellence, Terry Udovic, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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F. Metal Hydrides — Independent Projects

  1. High Density Hydrogen Storage System Demonstration Using NaAlH4 Complex Compound Hydrides, Dan Mosher, United Technologies Research Center

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G. Additional New Materials/Concepts — Independent Projects

  1. Effects and Mechanisms of Mechanical Activation on Hydrogen Sorption/Desorption of Nanoscale Lithium Nitrides, Leon Shaw, University of Connecticut
  2. A Synergistic Approach to the Development of New Hydrogen Storage Materials, Part I, Jeffrey Long, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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H. Storage Testing, Safety, and Analysis

  1. National Testing Laboratory for Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Technologies, Michael Miller, Southwest Research Institute

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I. Cross-Cutting Projects

  1. Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Storage Technology Project, Clemens Heske, UNLV Research Foundation
  2. Hydrogen Storage Research, Elias Stefanakos, University of South Florida
  3. An Integrated Approach for Hydrogen Production and Storage in Complex Hydrides of Transitional Elements, A. Bhattacharyya, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
  4. Expanding Clean Energy Research and Education Program at the University of South Carolina, James Ritter, University of South Carolina
  5. Purdue Hydrogen Systems Laboratory, Jay Gore, Purdue University
  6. Center for Hydrogen Storage Research at Delaware State University, Andrew Goudy, Delaware State University

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To locate posters and presentations from other meeting sessions, go to the main page of the 2007 Annual Merit Review Proceedings.