Carbon Nanomaterial Hydrogen Storage Project at IIT Madras

Carbon based nanomaterial for hydrogen storage tank

Objective

• To develop a novel Palladium-transition metal alloy nanoparticles decorated N-carbon nanotubes (CNT)/polymer nanocomposites for the hydrogen storage application, design, and fabrication of hydrogen storage canister of capacity 500 l with the above developed material.

Description

• Development of heteroatom (N) doped (CNT)/polymer nanocomposite support, Dispersion of Pd-TM alloy nanoparticles on nitrogen doped modified CNT/polymer nanocomposite, Optimizing the composition of composite to achieve a room temperature hydrogen storage capacity of ~5 wt % at a pressure of ~20 bar, Design and fabrication of the hydrogen storage canister of capacity 100 l and testing with the optimized material

Impact

• Industries working on the realization of a hydrogen economy, the solid state hydrogen storage system under ambient temperature and moderate pressure conditions is the most desirable and entire man kind is benefited.