Print Email Facebook Twitter Testing facility for hydrogen storage materials designed to simulate application based conditions Title Testing facility for hydrogen storage materials designed to simulate application based conditions Author Westerwaal, R.J. Nyqvist, R.G. Haije, W.G. Faculty Applied Sciences Department ChemE/Chemical Engineering Date 2011-04-19 Abstract For the daily use of hydrogen storage materials, not only their intrinsic storage properties are important, but also equally important is the performance under practical conditions. Besides the techniques already available for the fundamental characterization of storage materials, there is a growing need to test storage materials under conditions resembling day-to-day use. For that we developed and tested a downscaled hydrogen storage reactor with which it is possible to monitor the hydrogenation behavior under nonideal conditions. Here we present a characterization of the developed reactor setup which enables a fast screening of storage materials. For characterization and calibration purposes, we use the rather well-documented LaNi5–Al alloy as reference. The found experimental results agree well with the properties of LaNi5–Al as reported in literature. Our results show that this reactor setup enables an efficient screening of new developed storage alloys under realistic conditions and is therefore complementary to the already existing characterization setups. Subject aluminium alloyscalibrationchemical reactorshydrogen storagehydrogenationlanthanum alloysnickel alloysprocess monitoringtest facilities To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:239568db-562f-4c44-8fa9-c60c6310e3c2 DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3571302 Publisher American Institute of Physics ISSN 0034-6748 Source http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.3571302 Source Review of Scientific Instruments, 82 (4), 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2011 The Author(s)American Institute of Physics Files PDF Westerwaal_2011.pdf 800.21 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:239568db-562f-4c44-8fa9-c60c6310e3c2/datastream/OBJ/view