The use of metal hydrides in fuel cell applications

Progress in Natural Science: Materials International

Cordellia Sita¹  Mykhaylo V. Lototskyy¹  Ivan Tolj¹  Lydia Pickering¹  Volodymyr Yartys²  Frano Barbir³ 

[1] HySA Systems Competence Centre, South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry (SAIAMC), University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa;Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway;University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Department of Thermodynamics and Heat Engines, Split, Croatia;

关键词: Fuel cells;    Hydrogen storage;    Metal hydrides;    Thermal integration;    System development;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.pnsc.2017.01.008

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper reviews state-of-the-art developments in hydrogen energy systems which integrate fuel cells with metal hydride-based hydrogen storage. The 187 reference papers included in this review provide an overview of all major publications in the field, as well as recent work by several of the authors of the review. The review contains four parts. The first part gives an overview of the existing types of fuel cells and outlines the potential of using metal hydride stores as a source of hydrogen fuel. The second part of the review considers the suitability and optimisation of different metal hydrides based on their energy efficient thermal integration with fuel cells. The performances of metal hydrides are considered from the viewpoint of the reversible heat driven interaction of the metal hydrides with gaseous H2. Efficiencies of hydrogen and heat exchange in hydrogen stores to control H2 charge/discharge flow rates are the focus of the third section of the review and are considered together with metal hydride – fuel cell system integration issues and the corresponding engineering solutions. Finally, the last section of the review describes specific hydrogen-fuelled systems presented in the available reference data.

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