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Title HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY, CENTER FOR HYDROGEN RESEARCH, AND THE HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LABORATORY
Creator/Author Danko, E
Publication Date2007 Feb 26
OSTI IdentifierOSTI ID: 900333
Report Number(s)WSRC-STI-2007-00092
DOE Contract NumberDE-AC09-96SR18500
Other Number(s)TRN: US200711%%95
Resource TypeConference
Resource RelationConference: National Hydrogen Association Annual Hydrogran Conference
Research OrgSRS
Sponsoring OrgDOE
Subject08 HYDROGEN; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; CARBON; COMPRESSION; COMPRESSORS; ENGINEERS; FUEL CELLS; HYDRIDES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN FUELS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; HYDROGEN STORAGE; MEMBRANES; NANOTUBES; NATIONAL DEFENSE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OPTIMIZATION; STORAGE
Description/Abstract The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is a U.S. Department of Energy research and development laboratory located at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina. SRNL has over 50 years of experience in developing and applying hydrogen technology, both through its national defense activities as well as through its recent activities with the DOE Hydrogen Programs. The hydrogen technical staff at SRNL comprises over 90 scientists, engineers and technologists, and it is believed to be the largest such staff in the U.S. SRNL has ongoing R&D initiatives in a variety of hydrogen storage areas, including metal hydrides, complex hydrides, chemical hydrides and carbon nanotubes. SRNL has over 25 years of experience in metal hydrides and solid-state hydrogen storage research, development and demonstration. As part of its defense mission at SRS, SRNL developed, designed, demonstrated and provides ongoing technical support for the largest hydrogen processing facility in the world based on the integrated use of metal hydrides for hydrogen storage, separation and compression. The SRNL has been active in teaming with academic and industrial partners to advance hydrogen technology. A primary focus of SRNL's R&D has been hydrogen storage using metal and complex hydrides. SRNL and its Hydrogen Technology Laboratory have been very successful in leveraging their defense infrastructure, capabilities and investments to help solve this country's energy problems. Many of SRNL's programs support dual-use applications. SRNL has participated in projects to convert public transit and utility vehicles for operation on hydrogen fuel. Two major projects include the H2Fuel Bus and an Industrial Fuel Cell Vehicle (IFCV) also known as the GATOR{trademark}. Both of these projects were funded by DOE and cost shared by industry. These are discussed further in Section 3.0, Demonstration Projects. In addition to metal hydrides technology, the SRNL Hydrogen group has done extensive R&D in other hydrogen technologies, including membrane filters for H2 separation, doped carbon nanotubes, storage vessel design and optimization, chemical hydrides, hydrogen compressors and hydrogen production using nuclear energy. Several of these are discussed further in Section 2, SRNL Hydrogen Research and Development.
Publisherpubinfo
Country of PublicationUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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System Entry Date2007 Jul 23
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Exciting Hydrogen Real-World Applications:

This is a wonderful overview of the most recent SRNL advances in hydrogen technologies! This amazing technology was developed over ten years ago; i.e. a hydrogen elecrtic hybrid bus (see page 10) has been in use since the late 1990's, and hydrogen "Gator" vehicles (see page 12) since the same time period. Advancements have been made in hydrogen storage capablities, and hydrogen cars are the up and coming thing. The fact that this research has been developed in a government/industry partnership is a hopeful thing--perhaps allowing the technology to be implemented in the market faster.

Since this article was written (Feb. 2007), gas prices have increased a dollar/gallon, hence there would definitely be a market for hydrogen fuel, hydrogen vehicles, and even a hydrogen power structure (see Figure 5). The fact that the Center for Hydrogen Research and the Savannah River National Laboratory are doing a small scale implementation of the hydrogen fuel cell technology on their own facility is a wonderful step (page 9). By showing their own utilization of the technology as a back-up source of power for their laboratory, more public/industry faith in the technology can be garnered. Hydrogen fuel has almost 0 emissions and this another very appealing thing about the technology. I hope that more partners can be found (page 13) and that the research will be implemented on a larger scale soon, ushering us into a "hydrogen economy" (page 6).
    posted by er.dom - Aug 6, 2008 9:34 AM

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