Nanostructured hydrogen storage materials for offshore green hydrogen

氢气为快速发展的海上可再生能源行业提供了一种出色的能源储存解决方案。在金属氢化物中存储氢气是一种比压缩气体或液氢更紧凑的存储介质，将极大地简化海上水力发电平台上所需的氢气工厂。材料上的挑战是提高合金的容量，并使金属氢化物对电解海水中的潜在杂质有更强的耐受性。这个博士项目是英国重大合作项目的一部分，将与我们在纽卡斯尔大学的电解器合作伙伴密切合作。我们的合作伙伴将就氢气仓库可能遇到的杂质提供建议。该博士项目将研究新的方法，以提高金属氢化物对这些杂质的耐受性，并增加存储容量。这项研究将研究涂层、纳米封装和化学修饰以改进氢化物材料。成功的候选人将在一个充满活力的多学科研究小组中工作，在这个小组中，我们拥有从新材料发现到金属氢化物商店设计和应用的专业知识。该项目将使用各种材料合成技术来生产新的金属氢化物，自上而下和自下而上的纳米结构，材料表征和储氢性能测试。除了在国际会议上介绍工作，该项目还将包括对我们的纽卡斯尔合作伙伴的研究访问和对工业合作伙伴的访问。

Hydrogen offers an excellent energy storage solution for the rapidly expanding offshore renewablessector. Storing hydrogen in metal hydrides is a more compact storage medium than either compressedgas or liquid hydrogen and will greatly simplify the hydrogen plant needed on an offshore hydrogengeneration platform. The material challenges are to increase the capacity of the alloys and to makethe metal hydride more tolerant to potential impurities from the electrolysis of seawater.This PhD project is part of a major UK collaboration and will be working closely with our electrolyserpartner at Newcastle University. Our partner will be advising on the impurities that a hydrogen storemay experience. This PhD project will be investigating novel methods to improve the tolerance of metalhydrides to these impurities as well as increasing storage capacities. The research will investigatecoatings, nano-encapsulation, and chemical modification to improve the hydride materials.The successful candidate will work within a vibrant multidisciplinary research group, where we haveexpertise covering the discovery of new materials through to the design and application of metalhydride stores. The project will use a variety of material synthesis techniques to produce new metal hydrides, top-down and bottom-up nanostructuring, materials characterisation and hydrogen storage performance testing. In addition to presenting work at international conferences, the project will involve research visits to our Newcastle partner and visits to the industrial partners