(Invited) Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium R&D Activities

Abstract

The Hydrogen Materials—Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC) is a National Lab-led consortium working to advance and develop hydrogen storage materials that meet DOE targets for energy density, kinetics and cost for a wide range of applications. The goal of HyMARC is to enable a doubling of the hydrogen storage density compared with state-of-the-art compressed storage systems. DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office launched HyMARC in 2015, bringing together world-class National Lab capabilities in materials modelling, characterization and synthesis; and fostering collaboration with industry and academia to overcome R&D challenges in materials-based hydrogen storage. The consortium is led by teams at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and includes groups at Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories. HyMARC is working to develop foundational understanding of phenomena governing thermodynamics and kinetics of hydrogen release and uptake in all classes of hydrogen storage materials, including metal hydrides, adsorbents, and hydrogen carriers. It seeks to accelerate materials development by addressing critical R&D gaps in hydrogen storage—leveraging recent advances in predictive multiscale modeling, machine learning, high-resolution in situ characterization, and novel materials synthesis techniques to realize their goal to enable twice the energy density for hydrogen storage in the coming years. This presentation will describe HyMARC’s ongoing R&D activities and past accomplishments which have pushed the bar forward for materials-based hydrogen storage.