Key Technologies for Hydrogen Storage and Transport (ONTZHi)

Project description

The objective of ONTZHi is to research into safer, more compact, cost-effective and sustainable hydrogen storage and transport technologies and solutions.

ONTZHi aims to provide solutions to the following challenges:

Enhancing the resistance of tank and pipeline materials.
Reducing the weight of the storage and transportation system.
Increasing the safety margin of storage and transportation systems.
Reducing the cost and increasing the sustainability of storage and transport.
Researching and generating knowledge on the limits of metallic materials in interaction with hydrogen.

To this end, four lines of work will be pursued, and the following results are expected: 

LINE 1: METALLIC TANKS AND COMPONENTS
H2 barrier coatings for metals, reducing the permeability and increasing the fracture toughness of metallic materials in stationary tanks.
LINE 2: MOBILITY TANKS
New recyclable thermoplastic materials.
H2 barrier coatings for composites, reducing H2 permeability.
LINE 3: DISTRIBUTION PIPES.
Embrittlement inhibitors.
H2 barrier coatings for pipes.
LINE 4: CHARACTERISATION AND MODELLING.
Understanding the interaction mechanisms between H2 and metal surface.
New simplified characterisation methods.