Development of efficient hydrogen storage materials using carbon-based hybrid composites
R&D Focus Areas:
Porous carbon materials
Lead Organisation:
Swinburne University of Technology
Funding:
Future Energy Exports CRC (PhD Project)
Status:
Active
Start date:
2022
Completion date:
2025
Project summary description:
Developing a lightweight storage system with high volumetric and gravimetric capacity of hydrogen in ambient conditions is a must in terms of converting all the light vehicles’ fuel source to hydrogen. Many applications today have converted to porous carbon materials (PCMs) due to their remarkable properties.
Biomass-based PCMs showcase exceptional traits like high specific surface area, high porosity, structural diversity, cost-effectiveness, and sustainable regeneration. In addition, biomass is one of the most abundant raw material resources globally that requires development every year. Utilizing biomass to convert to porous-carbon resources not only has tunable and adjustable characteristics, unique structure, high quality, and renewable nature but also can help the environment.
This project aims to develop the existing biomass-based porous carbon hydrogen storage devices for the purpose of being practically useable for mobility applications and delivering some economically reliable approaches to convert the transport system to a fully electric one.
Further information:
https://www.fenex.org.au/connect/
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September 2024