Executive Summary : | Depleting fossil fuels, rising oil and gas prices, threats related to climate change and global green house emissions with the use of conventional fuels makes its essential to search for a potential alternative. Hydrogen is a potential energy carrier with highest energy density, abundance, flexibility of production from a wide variety of sources, efficient and resilient hydrogen based energy systems and its use can provide independence from the energy security related challenges. However, hydrogen storage is the biggest bottleneck in the hydrogen energy value chain. As against compressed state hydrogen storage (350 or 700 bar, requirement of compressor, hydrogen refueling stations and specialized carbon fibre reinforced composite tanks) and liquid state storage(20K temperature, requirement of super insulated tanks, energy and cost intensive process and boil off issues), the proposed method of solid state storage has several advantages. solid state storage can provide highest energy density per unit volume, safest method, and will store under optimum sets of temperature and pressure which can be close to ambient conditions. The method of solid state storage of hydrogen have several advantages like it is the safest among all the methods of hydrogen storage, most volumetric efficient method, can store hydrogen under moderate set of temperature and pressure conditions even at NTP. Thus solid state storage is the most viable and feasible solution for many of the applications. In the current proposal we will be targeting towards developing large scale metal hydrogen storage canisters for stationary back up power applications and integrating it with the fuel cell to finally demonstrate that the entire electrical demand of the hydrogen storage laboratory is met with the developed storage system. This system will be a prototype and a product which could be used to replace the existing diesel generators used for back up power and not only that could be a possible solution for used in the high altitude defense patrolling or army camps. |