Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-18T18:17:11.466Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Hydrogen as a Fuel and Its Storage for Mobility and Transport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Louis Schlapbach
Get access

Abstract

This brief article describes the content of this issue of MRS Bulletin on Hydrogen Storage. Hydrogen is a powerful, clean, synthetic fuel with the inconvenient property of being an ideal gas under ambient conditions. In order to use hydrogen efficiently as a fuel, compacting it for mobile storage is a key issue. As an introduction to the following seven contributions on different storage techniques and their potential, we start with a description of the technical and socioeconomic aspects of the mobility and transport issues involved and present an overview of volumetric and gravimetric storage densities for hydrogen.

Keywords

fuel cellsenergy densityhydrogen storageliquid hydrogenmetal hydrides.
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Bulletin , Volume 27 , Issue 9: Hydrogen Storage , September 2002 , pp. 675 - 679
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1.Winter, C.J. and Nitsch, J., eds., Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier: Technologies, Systems, Economy (Springer, Berlin, 1988).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2.Schlapbach, L. and Züttel, A., Nature 414 (2001) p. 353.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3.Ogden, J.M., Phys. Today (April 2002) p. 69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4.Hirscher, M., Becher, M., Haluska, M., Dettlaff-Weglikowska, U., Quintel, A., Duesberg, G.S., Choi, Y.-M., Downes, P., Hulman, M., Roth, S., Stepanek, I., and Bernier, P., Appl. Phys. A 72 (2002) p. 129.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
5.Hirscher, M., guest editor, Special Issue: Hydrogen Storage in Nanoscale Carbon and Metals, Appl. Phys. A 72 (2002).Google Scholar
6.Schlapbach, L., Topics in Applied Physics 63 (Springer, Berlin, 1988);Schlapbach, L., Topics in Applied Physics 67 (Springer, Berlin, 1992).Google Scholar
7.Dalton, R., Nature 414 (2001) p. 682.Google Scholar