Abstract:
Hydrogen is currently used in large quantities for removing sulfur from hydrocarbon fuels and to a lesser extent in chemical and metallurgical processes.  There is an emerging vision of a "Hydrogen Economy" where H2 is the energy carrier.  Central to this vision is the development of a means of economically transporting hydrogen and efficiently storing it in fuel cell or H2 internal combustion engine vehicles.

We are pursuing the various challenges of hydrogen storage within the vision of an easily H2 regenerable, two-way liquid carrier hydrogen delivery infrastructure.  The carrier is a readily transportable organic liquid which is catalytically hydrogenated at a H2-source site, taken to the fixed or mobile point of use where it is catalytically dehydrogenated, in this way providing hydrogen to a fuel cell or other power source.  The significant challenges in designing the liquid carrier molecule and the hydrogenation/dehydrogenation catalysis will be addressed with reference to a prototype carrier composition, perhydro-N-ethyl carbazole, an ambient temperature liquid that can reversibly store and, at 180-200?C, deliver ~5.6 wt% of its contained hydrogen.

Seminar Series Coordinators:
Dr. Zeyuan Qiu    Zeyuan.qiu@njit.edu        973-596-5757
Dr. Sergiu Gorun  Sergiu.m.gorun@njit.edu  973-596-6595