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2009 Annual Merit Review Proceedings

Hydrogen Storage

These presentations and posters from the Hydrogen Storage session at the Annual Merit Review in May 2009 are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

Storage Presentations

  1. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence
  2. Storage Testing, Safety, and Analysis
  3. Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence
  4. Chemical Hydrogen Center of Excellence
  5. Sorption Center of Excellence
  6. New Materials – Independent Projects
  7. Tanks

Hydrogen Storage (PDF 5.4 MB), Sara Dillich, DOE

A. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence

  1. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence (PDF 982 KB), Lennie Klebanoff, SNL
  2. Thermodynamically Tuned Nanophase Materials for Reversible Hydrogen Storage: Structure and Kinetics of Nanoparticle and Model System Materials (PDF 1.9 MB), Bruce Clemens, Stanford University
  3. Discovery and Development of Metal Hydrides for Reversible On-board Hydrogen Storage (PDF 2.3 MB), Mark Allendorf, SNL
  4. Chemical Vapor Synthesis and Discovery of H2 Storage Materials: Li-Mg-N-H System (PDF 995 KB), Zak Fang, University of Utah
  5. Aluminum Hydride Regeneration (PDF 2.4 MB), Jason Graetz, BNL
  6. Electrochemical Reversible Formation of Alane (PDF 1.2 MB), Ragaiy Zidan, SRNL
  7. Fundamental Studies of Advanced, High-Capacity Reversible Metal Hydrides (PDF 1.4 MB), Craig Jensen, University of Hawaii
  8. First-Principles Modeling of Hydrogen Storage in Metal Hydride Systems (PDF 753 KB), Karl Johnson, University of Pittsburgh/Georgia Tech
  9. Thermodynamically Tuned Nanophase Materials for Reversible Hydrogen Storage (PDF 874 KB), Ping Liu, HRL Laboratories
  10. Catalyzed Nano-Framework Stabilized High Density Reversible Hydrogen Storage Systems (PDF 2.2 MB), Xia Tang, UTRC
  11. Neutron Characterization and Calphad in Support of the Metal Hydride Center of Excellence (PDF 2.0 MB), Terry Udovic, NIST
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B. Storage Testing, Safety, and Analysis

  1. Analyses of Hydrogen Storage Materials and On-Board Systems (PDF 1.6 MB), Stephen Lasher, TIAX
  2. System Level Analysis of Hydrogen Storage Options (PDF 1.6 MB), Rajesh Ahluwalia, ANL

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C. Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence

  1. Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence (PDF 793 KB), Don Anton, SRNL

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D. Chemical Hydrogen Center of Excellence

  1. 2009 Overview - DOE Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence (PDF 968 KB), Kevin Ott, LANL
  2. Amineborane-Based Chemical Hydrogen Storage (PDF 3.6 MB), Larry Sneddon, University of Pennsylvania
  3. Chemical Hydrogen Storage R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory (PDF 2.1 MB), Anthony Burrell , LANL
  4. PNNL Progress as Part of the Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence (PDF 2.2 MB), Tom Autrey, PNNL
  5. Main Group Element and Organic Chemistry for Hydrogen Storage and Activation (PDF 884 KB), David Dixon, UA
  6. Low-Cost Precursors to Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials (PDF 550 KB), Suzanne Linehan, Rohm and Haas
  7. Ammonia Borane Regeneration and Market Analysis of Hydrogen Storage Materials (PDF 492 KB), David Schubert, U.S. Borax

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E. Sorption Center of Excellence

  1. Overview of the DOE Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence (PDF 2.0 MB), Anne Dillon, NREL
  2. A Biomimetic Approach to Metal-Organic Frameworks with High H2 Uptake (PDF 2.1 MB), Joe Zhou, Texas A&M University
  3. Hydrogen Storage by Spillover (PDF 879 KB), Ralph Yang, University of Michigan
  4. Optimization of Nano-Carbon Materials for Hydrogen Sorption (PDF 3.9 MB), Boris Yakobson, Rice University
  5. NREL Research as Part of the Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence (PDF 4.8 MB), Lin Simpson, NREL
  6. Hydrogen Storage through Nanostructured Polymeric Materials (PDF 1.8 MB), D.J. Liu, ANL
  7. Discovery of Materials with a Practical Heat of H2 Adsorption (PDF 1.2 MB), Alan Cooper, Air Products
  8. Optimizing the Binding Energy of Hydrogen on Nanostructured Carbon Materials through Structure Control and Chemical Doping (PDF 1.2 MB), Jie Liu, Duke University
  9. Nanoengineered Graphene Scaffolds with Alternating Metal-Carbon Layers for H2 Uptake at Ambient Temperatures (PDF 2.2 MB), Carter Kittrell, Rice University
  10. Multiply Surface-Functionalized Nanoporous Carbon for Vehicular Hydrogen Storage (PDF 4.2 MB), Peter Pfeifer, University Missouri – Columbia

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F. New Materials – Independent Projects

  1. A Synergistic Approach to the Development of New Hydrogen Storage Materials, Part I (PDF 1.9 MB), Jeffrey Long, UC Berkeley/LBNL
  2. Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Frameworks (PDF 3.9 MB), Christian Doonan, UCLA

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G. Tanks

  1. Compact (L)H2 Storage with Extended Dormancy in Cryogenic Pressure Vessels (PDF 4.9 MB), Gene Berry, LLNL

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Storage Posters

  1. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence
  2. Metal Hydride – Independent Projects
  3. Storage Testing, Safety, and Analysis
  4. Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence
  5. Chemical Hydrogen Center of Excellence
  6. Sorption Center of Excellence
  7. Sorbents – Independent Projects
  8. New Materials – Independent Projects
  9. Tanks
  10. Crosscutting
  11. Test/Analysis

A. Metal Hydride Center of Excellence

  1. Reversible Hydrogen Storage Materials: Structure, Chemistry, and Electronic Structure (PDF 1.7 MB), Ian Robertson, University of Illinois
  2. Metal Borohydrides, Ammines, and Aluminum Hydrides as Hydrogen Storage Materials (PDF 688 KB), Gilbert Brown, ORNL
  3. Development and Evaluation of Advanced Hydride Systems for Reversible Hydrogen Storage (PDF 913 KB), Joe Reiter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  4. Effect of Trace Elements on Long-Term Cycling/Aging Properties and Thermodynamic Studies of Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage (PDF 2.0 MB), Dhanesh Chandra, UNR
  5. Amide and Combined Amide/Borohydride Investigations (PDF 1.0 MB), Don Anton, SRNL
  6. Synthesis of Nanophase Materials for Thermodynamically Tuned Reversible Hydrogen Storage (PDF 4.0 MB), Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology
  7. Lightweight Borohydrides for Hydrogen Storage (PDF 1.0 MB), J.-C. Zhao, OSU

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B. Metal Hydride – Independent Projects

  1. Center for Hydrogen Storage Research at Delaware State University (PDF 208 KB), Andrew Goudy, Delaware State University
  2. Design of Novel Multi-Component Metal Hydride-Based Mixtures for Hydrogen Storage (PDF 1.7 MB), Christopher Wolverton, Northwestern University
  3. Tunable Thermodynamics and Kinetics for Hydrogen Storage: Nanoparticle Synthesis Using Ordered Polymer Templates (PDF 1.7 MB), Mark Allendorf, SNL

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C. Storage Testing, Safety, and Analysis

  1. Fundamental Reactivity Testing and Analysis of Hydrogen Storage Materials (PDF 1.9 MB), Don Anton, SRNL
  2. Quantifying & Addressing the DOE Material Reactivity Requirements with Analysis & Testing of Hydrogen Storage Materials & Systems (PDF 1.8 MB), John Khalil, UTRC
  3. The Reactivity Properties of Hydrogen Storage Materials in the Context of Systems (PDF 2.0 MB), Daniel Dedrick, SNL
  4. Best Practices for Characterizing Hydrogen Storage Properties of Materials (PDF 5.3 MB), Karl Gross, HyEnergy

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D. Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence

  1. SRNL Technical Work Scope for the Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence: Design and Testing of Metal Hydride and Adsorbent Systems (PDF 1.2 MB), Ted Motyka, SRNL
  2. Systems Engineering of Chemical Hydride, Pressure Vessel, and Balance of Plant for On-Board Hydrogen Storage (PDF 2.1 MB), Darrell Herling, PNNL
  3. Advancement of Systems Designs and Key Engineering Technologies for Materials Based Hydrogen Storage (PDF 1.8 MB), Dan Mosher, United Technologies
  4. Chemical Hydride Rate Modeling, Validation, and System Demonstration (PDF 1.6 MB), Troy Semelsberger, LANL
  5. Key Technologies, Thermal Management, and Prototype Testing for Advanced Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Systems (PDF 1.3 MB), Joseph Reiter, NASA JPL
  6. System Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Media Engineering Properties for Hydrogen Energy Storage (PDF 927 KB), Matthew Thornton, NREL
  7. System Design and Media Structuring for On-board Hydrogen Storage Technologies (PDF 466 KB), Darsh Kumar, General Motors
  8. Ford/BASF Activities in Support of the Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence (PDF 904 KB), Don Siegel, Ford
  9. Microscale Enhancement of Heat and Mass Transfer for Hydrogen Energy Storage (PDF 683 KB), Kevin Drost, Oregon State
  10. Development of Improved Composite Pressure Vessels for Hydrogen Storage (PDF 517 KB), Norman Newhouse, Lincoln Composites

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E. Chemical Hydrogen Center of Excellence

  1. Hydrogen Storage by Novel CBN Heterocycle Materials (PDF 780 KB), Shih-Yuan Liu, University of Oregon
  2. Solutions for Chemical Hydrogen Storage: Hydrogenation/Dehydrogenation of B-N Bonds (PDF 836 KB), Karen Goldberg, University of Washington
  3. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Using Ultra-High Surface Area Main Group Materials & The Development of Efficient Amine-Borane Regeneration Cycles (PDF 969 KB), Philip Power, UC Davis
  4. Electrochemical Hydrogen Storage Systems (PDF 643 KB), Digby Macdonald, Penn State
  5. Chemical Hydrogen Storage Using Aluminum Ammonia-Borane Complexes (PDF 1.7 MB), Fred Hawthorne, University of Missouri

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F. Sorption Center of Excellence

  1. Carbon Aerogels for Hydrogen Storage (PDF 1.7 KB), Ted Baumann, LLNL
  2. Single-Walled Carbon Nanohorns for Hydrogen Storage and Catalyst Supports (PDF 5.2 MB), David Geohegan, ORNL
  3. Enhanced Hydrogen Dipole Physisorption: Constant Isosteric Heats and Hydrogen Diffusion in Physisorbents (PDF 630 KB), Channing Ahn, CalTech
  4. Characterization of Hydrogen Adsorption by NMR (PDF 579 KB), Yue Wu, University of North Carolina
  5. Advanced Boron and Metal Loaded High Porosity Carbons (PDF 2.6 MB), Mike Chung, Penn State
  6. Neutron Characterization in Support of the Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence (PDF 1.9 MB), Dan Neumann, NIST

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G. Sorbents – Independent Projects

  1. Electron-Charged Hydrogen Storage Materials (PDF 1.1 MB), Chinbay Fan, Gas Technology Institute
  2. Polymer-Based Activated Carbon Nanostructures for H2 Storage (PDF 1.0 MB), Israel Cabasso, State University of New York
  3. Carbide-Derived Carbons with Tunable Porosity Optimized for Hydrogen Storage (PDF 382 KB), Yury Gogotsi, University of Pennsylvania/Drexel University

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H. New Materials – Independent Projects

  1. Hydrogen Storage Materials with Binding Intermediate between Physisorption and Chemisorption (PDF 4.7 MB), Juergen Eckert, UC-Santa Barbara
  2. Novel Metal Perhydrides for Hydrogen Storage (PDF 1.2 MB), Jim Hwang, Michigan Technological University
  3. A Joint Theory and Experimental Project in the High-Throughput Synthesis and Testing of Porous COF and ZIF Materials for On-Board Vehicular Hydrogen Storage (PDF 2.9 MB), David Britt, UCLA
  4. Capacitive Hydrogen Storage Systems: Molecular Design of Structured Dielectrics (PDF 5.3 MB), Robert Currier, LANL
  5. New Carbon-Based Porous Materials with Increased Heats of Adsorption for Hydrogen Storage (PDF 755 KB), Joseph Hupp, Northwestern University
  6. Hydrogen Trapping through Designer Hydrogen Spillover Molecules with Reversible Temperature and Pressure-Induced Switching (PDF 2.2 MB), Angela Lueking, Penn State
  7. Solid-State Hydriding and Dehydriding of LiBH4 MgH2 Enabled via Mechanical Activation and Nano-Engineering (PDF 2.7 MB), Leon Shaw, University of Connecticut

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I. Tanks

  1. Lifecycle Verification of Polymeric Storage Liners (PDF 464 KB), Barton Smith, ORNL
  2. Low-Cost High-Efficiency High-Pressure H2 Storage (PDF 659 KB), Carter Liu, Quantum

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J. Crosscutting

  1. Purdue Hydrogen Systems Laboratory (PDF 611 KB), Jay Gore, Purdue University
  2. Hydrogen Storage Research (PDF 14.0 MB), Lee Stefanakos, University of South Florida
  3. NaSi and NaSG Powder Hydrogen Fuel Cells (PDF 1.3 KB), Michael Lefenfeld, SiGNa
  4. An Integrated Approach of Hydrogen Storage in Complex Hydrides of Transitional Elements (PDF 1.7 MB), Tansel Karabacak , University of Arkansas

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K. Test/Analysis

  1. Standardized Testing Program for Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Technologies (PDF 1.7 MB), Michael Miller, SwRI

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To locate posters and presentations from other meeting sessions, go to the main page of the 2009 Annual Merit Review Proceedings.