SBIR Phase I: KONTAK Hydrogen Liquid Storage Reactor

SBIR一期项目旨在使氢作为汽油和柴油的绿色替代品得到广泛接受。为了实现这一目标，必须找到一种安全、经济地储存、运输和使用氢的方法。一类有机化合物已经被发现，它可以储存氢，并在需要时释放氢，形成可回收的残余化合物。通过在常温常压下将氢保存在液体载体上，降低了压缩或液化氢的成本和复杂性。为我们提供汽油、柴油和乙醇的基础设施可以不经改造就用于运输这种氢液体。一种安全、经济的氢气捕获、储存、运输和分配方法将使风能、太阳能、生物质能和潮汐能制造氢气的绿色技术成为可能。利用二氧化碳作为一种成分从水合乙醇中制造这些载体分子的可能性是存在的。氢气与柴油的比例可以达到50/50，这样可以将有害的柴油排放减少一半，其中包括与儿童哮喘发病率上升有关的柴油烟尘。这个项目结合了有机化学家、纳米技术、3D制造工程师和计算机控制的电子驱动器的技能，以提供一个新颖的结果。实现催化体积的均匀加热是产生理想输出而没有副产品和催化表面污垢的关键。由于预期的反应是吸热的，并且商业应用的流速很高，因此研究的重点是通过设计和实验来实现对反应堆堆芯传热的精确控制。实验计划还包括对感应加热元件的多种材料的评估，电抗器磁芯电磁管中位置的影响，以及将多个非常小的电抗器管结合在一起创建磁芯的各种方法。目标是证明一个5千瓦的燃料电池每分钟产生33气态升的氢气的能力。

This SBIR Phase I Project is designed to enable the wide acceptance of hydrogen as a green alternative to gasoline and diesel. To accomplish this goal, a way had to be found to safely and economically store, transport and use hydrogen. A class of organic compounds has been discovered that can store hydrogen, release it as needed, and form a recyclable residual compounds. By holding hydrogen on a liquid carrier at normal temperatures and pressures, the cost and complexity of compressing or liquefying hydrogen has been eliminated. The same infrastructure that supplies us with gasoline, diesel and ethanol can be used without modification to transport this hydrogen liquid. A safe and economical means for capturing, storing, transporting and dispensing hydrogen will enable green technologies for making hydrogen from wind, solar, biomass and tidal energy. Possibilities exist for using CO2 as a component to make these carrier molecules from hydrated ethanol. Hydrogen can be mixed 50/50 with diesel fuel to cut harmful diesel emissions in half including diesel soot which has been implicated in the rise in childhood asthma.This project combines the skills of organic chemists, nanotechnology, 3D fabrication engineers and computer-controlled electronics drivers to deliver a novel result. Achieving uniform heating of a catalytic volume is key to producing the desired output without byproducts and fouling of the catalytic surfaces. Since the anticipated reactions are endothermic and the flow rates for commercial applications are high, the research is focused on developing precise control of heat transfer into the reactor core through design and experiments. The experimental plan also involves evaluation of multiple materials for the induction heating elements, the effect of location in the solenoid barrel of the reactor core, and the various methods available to bind multiple, very small Reactor tubes together to create the Cores. The goal is to demonstrate capability for generating hydrogen output of 33 gaseous liters perminute for a 5 kW fuel cell.