Hydrogen-based ecosystem
AssigneeEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc.
InventorsStanford R. Ovshinsky, Rosa T. Young
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Abstract
A complete infrastructure system for the generation, storage, transportation, and delivery of hydrogen which makes a hydrogen ecosystem possible. The infrastructure system utilizes high capacity, low cost, light weight thermal hydrogen storage alloy materials having fast kinetics. Also, a novel hydrogen storage bed design which includes a support/heat-transfer component which is made from a highly porous, high thermal conductivity, solid material such as a high thermal conductivity graphitic foam. Finally a material including at least one particle having atomically engineered local chemical and electronic environments, characterized in that the local environments providing bulk nucleation.
Claims59
A hydrogen transportation/distribution infrastructure system including:
- a hydrogen transportation subsystem which transports metal hydride storage units containing stored hydrogen;
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- a hydrogen distribution subsystem which receives the transported metal hydride storage units and distributes said stored hydrogen to end users;
- wherein waste heat of hydride formation generated in any part of said hydrogen distribution subsystem is recovered and reused in other parts of said hydrogen distribution subsystem or other subsystems of said infrastructure.
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