Hydrides and Hydride Systems for Energy–Hydrogen Storage and CO2 Conversion
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A5: Hydrogen Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 11339
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Advanced of Materials, IREC Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, 08930, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, Spain
3. Department of Physicochemistry of Materials, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Centro Atómico Bariloche, Av. Bustillo km 9500, R8402AGP S.C. de Bariloche, Argentina
Interests: Hydrogen; Energy; Storage; Thermodynamics; Kinetics; Catalysis; Hydrides; CO2 Conversion; Synthetic fuels; 3D-Printing; Finite Element Calculations; Modeling; Nanotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
Hydrogen is considered the most efficient and clean option to replace the fossil fuel-based energy vectors. Nowadays, the implementation of hydrogen technology is becoming a reality. However, there are still several technological bottlenecks to be addressed. One of them is the storage of hydrogen either for mobile or stationary applications. Many efforts have been made to develop safe and efficient hydrogen storage systems, and mainly to gain more volumetric storage capacity. In this regard, hydrides play a crucial role since they can store hydrogen in solid-state. Therefore, the formation of hydride compounds notably increases the hydrogen density, in comparison to physically storing hydrogen as a liquid under cryogenic temperatures or as a gas under high pressure.
The storage of energy through the formation/decomposition hydride compounds is also feasible owing to the exothermic/endothermic nature of the reactions, respectively. Hence, this feature can also be applied to increase the energy efficiency of the current fossil fuel-based technology or to develop novel energy storage systems.
As a consequence of our fossil fuel-based economy, the greenhouse effect has been causing notable changes in the world’s climate owing to the constant increase of the global temperature. One of the most problematic greenhouse gasses is CO2. For this reason, intensive research has been done on materials and systems for the reduction and conversion of CO2. In the frame of the Power-to-Gas and Power-to-Liquid technology, hydride compounds and systems offer an attractive technological option to reduce and convert CO2 into synthetic fuels via a catalytic process acting as active sites for the reaction and providing the hydrogen in situ.
This Special Issue aims to cover novel research works in the field of hydrogen and energy storage through hydride and hydride systems, as well as the application of hydride compounds for CO2 reduction and conversion.
We invite submissions from authors who further develop hydride systems for the above-mentioned applications, including different aspects of the research work such as synthesis, characterization, evaluation of hydride materials and systems, as well as theoretical studies or their combination thereof.
Dr. Julián A. Puszkiel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Hydrogen Storage
- Energy Storage
- Interstitial Hydrides
- Binary Hydrides
- Complex Hydrides
- Reactive Hydride Systems
- CO2 Conversion
- CO2 Reduction
- Thermodynamics
- Kinetics
- Numerical Modeling
- Synthesis
- Characterization
- Synchrotron Techniques
- Nanotechnology
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