Numerical analysis of candidate materials for multi-stage metal hydride hydrogen compression processes

RENEWABLE ENERGY

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Article

Gkanas, Evangelos I.¹  Khzouz, Martin¹ 

[1] Coventry Univ, Ctr Mobil & Transport, Hydrogen & Mobil Lab, Priory St, Coventry CV1 5FB, W Midlands, England

关键词: Metal hydride hydrogen compressor;    Heat and mass transfer;    Hydrogenation/dehydrogenation;    Metal hydrides;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.renene.2017.04.037

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

A numerical study on multistage metal hydride hydrogen compression (MHHC) systems is presented and analyzed. Multistage MHHC systems use a combination of different materials to increase the final compression ratio at the end of the compression process. In the current work a numerical model is proposed to describe the operation of a complete three-stage MHHC cycle, which can be divided in seven steps (for a three-stage compression system): first stage hydrogenation process, sensible heating of first stage, coupling process between the first and the second stage, sensible heating of the second stage, second coupling with the upcoming sensible heating of the third stage material and finally the delivery of high pressure hydrogen to a high pressure hydrogen tank. Three scenarios concerning the combination of different materials for the compression stages are introduced and analyzed in terms of maximum compression ratio, cycle time and energy consumption. According to the results, the combination of LaNis (stage 1), MmNi(4.6)Al(0.4) (stage 2) and a novel synthesized AB(2)-Laves phase intermetallic (stage 3) present a compression ratio 22:1 while operating between 20 and 130 degrees C. Crown Copyright (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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