US startup developing technology to resolve hydrogen storage challenges
One of the biggest challenges hindering the wider adoption of hydrogen is safe and efficient storage, which often involves compressing or liquefying and requires a significant amount of energy, making it generally expensive and inefficient.
Leveraging nano-engineered reticular materials, California-based hydrogen technology startup H2MOF is, however, working on the development of a durable and efficient solid-state hydrogen storage solution that works under ambient temperatures and low pressure.
H2MOF chief technical officer Dr Neel Sirosh tells Engineering News that, as a result of hydrogen being the lightest element, the industry introduced very-high-pressure storage tanks in the form of 700 bar pressured cylinders to increase the energy storage density of hydrogen.
While such highly pressurised hydrogen gas can achieve a good energy storage density, this comes with a significant energy penalty each time the hydrogen cylinder is filled. (…)
