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The DOE National Hydrogen Storage Project: Recent Progress in On-Board Vehicular Hydrogen Storage

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Hydrogen is under consideration by several countries for its potential as an energy carrier for transportation applications. In order to compete with vehicles in use today, hydrogen-powered vehicles will require a driving range of greater than 300-miles in order to meet customer needs and expectations. For the overall vehicular light-duty fleet, this dictates that a range of 5 to 13 kg of hydrogen be stored on-board (assuming a fuel cell power plant) within stringent system weight, volume, and cost constraints. Vehicular hydrogen storage thus constitutes a major scientific and technological challenge. To meet this challenge, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiated a “National Hydrogen Storage Project” with roughly 40 universities, 15 companies and 10 federal laboratories, actively engaged in hydrogen storage research. Centers of Excellence in metal hydrides, chemical hydrides, and carbon-based materials have been established, as well as independent university and industry projects in the areas of new concepts/materials, hydrogen storage testing, and storage system analysis. Recent technical progress in each of these areas is discussed.

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  1. DOE Hydrogen Program, Office of Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, 20585, Washington, DC, USA

    Carole Read, Grace Ordaz & Sunita Satyapal

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

    John Petrovic

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Read, C., Petrovic, J., Ordaz, G. et al. The DOE National Hydrogen Storage Project: Recent Progress in On-Board Vehicular Hydrogen Storage. MRS Online Proceedings Library 885, 501 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-0885-A05-01

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