Reactors for solid-state hydrogen storage enabled by Additive Manufacturing (AM)

While safer than high-pressure gas or cryogenic solutions, solid state H2 storage faces major hurdles: high release temperatures, slow charging and discharging rates (i.e., kinetics), heavy storage weights, and sensitivity to chemical impurities that degrade the storage materials over time.

In this framework, f3nice has designed an innovative approach based on the company expertise in metal powder production for Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing. Our approach is twofold: it combines material science to improve the storage capacity of metal particles together with the improved designed of the reactor by Design for Additive Manufaturing (DfAM). This way, it is possible to guarantee higher storage capacity while improving the adsorption/desorption kinetics, making the process of hydrogen release faster and more efficient in terms of energy consumption.

The goal of this project stands in the cooperation between a consortium composed by 2 to 3 partners to optmize the current prototype solution, test it in operation environment, integrate the reactor in a broader scope, and scale the technology up to the TRL level set by the call. In this regards, we are looking for partners to complement our expertise, including - but not limited to - modelling, system engineering and/or integrators and End Users.