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US 8,418,841 B2Granted
Method of enhancing thermal conductivity in hydrogen storage systems
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJun Yang, Donald J. Siegel, Andrea Pulskamp, Andrew Robert Drews, Shinichi Hirano, Christopher Mark Wolverton
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Abstract
A system for reversibly storing hydrogen includes a storage tank with an internal volume with a thermally conducting composite material situated within the storage tank and having a three-dimensional and interconnected framework of a conductive metal within the internal volume of the storage tank.
Claims11
A system for reversibly storing hydrogen, the system comprising:
- a storage tank having an internal volume;
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- a thermally conductive composite material situated in the storage tank and for reversibly storing hydrogen, the composite material including a three-dimensional and interconnected framework including a thermally conductive, in situ chemically-formed elemental metal extending within the internal volume of the storage tank.
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