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Comments on solid state hydrogen storage systems designfor fuel cell vehicles
David Wengera,*, Wolfgang Polifkec, Eberhard Schmidt-Ihna, Tarek Abdel-Basetb,Steffen Mausa
aDaimler AG, Kirchheim/Teck-Nabern, GermanybChrysler LLC, Auburn Hills, MI, USAcTU Munchen, Lehrstuhl fur Thermodynamik, Garching, Germany
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 15 January 2008
Received in revised form
24 February 2009
Accepted 19 May 2009
Available online 3 July 2009
Keywords:
Fuel cell vehicle
Hydrogen storage
Metal hydride
Requirements
* Corresponding author at: Present address: Wfax: þ49 731142354.
E-mail address: david.wenger@wenger-en0360-3199/$ – see front matter ª 2009 Interndoi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.05.072
a b s t r a c t
In recent years, significant research and development efforts were spent on hydrogen
storage technologies with the goal of realizing a breakthrough for fuel cell vehicle appli-
cations. This article scrutinizes design targets and material screening criteria for solid state
hydrogen storage. Adopting an automotive engineering point of view, four important, but
often neglected, issues are discussed: 1) volumetric storage capacity, 2) heat transfer for
desorption, 3) recharging at low temperatures and 4) cold start of the vehicle. The article
shall help to understand the requirements and support the research community when
screening new materials.
ª 2009 International Association for Hydrogen Energy. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights
reserved.
1. Introduction Nevertheless considerable challenges in terms of technology,
Hydrogen powered fuel cell vehicles represent one option to
face the challenges of increasing individual mobility demands
and decreasing oil reserves. While the protection of the
environment and climate is the main reason for the devel-
opment of this technology in Europe and Japan [1,2], the
reduction of dependence on oil imports from politically
unstable regions is the main goal in the US [3]. Furthermore,
with such technologies, the car manufacturers also expected
to develop competitive advantages by demonstrating
sustainability, innovation and technology leadership. Signifi-
cant progress has been achieved during the last 15 years.
enger Engineering GmbH
gineering.de (D. Wengerational Association for H
infrastructure development and cost reduction have to be
overcome before fuel cell vehicles will evolve from demon-
stration objects to a real business case.
Adopting a vehicle engineering point of view, the present
paper discusses four important requirements on solid state
hydrogen storage systems for fuel cell vehicle applications:
volumetric vs. gravimetric storage capacity, refueling time at
low temperatures, heat transfer for desorption and cold start
capability. It will be seen that adopting an automotive engi-
neering perspective leads to non-trivial, sometimes surprising
conclusions regarding the formulation of design targets for
solid state hydrogen storage system development.
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Table 1 – Requirements of a fuel cell vehicle on hydrogenstorage systems [13,14].
Range 600 km
Usable hydrogen mass 6–10 kg
Hydrogen delivery rate 0–2 g/s
Hydrogen delivery pressure approx. 0.8 MPa
Operating temperature �40 to 85�C
Refueling time �3 min (98% capacity)
Cold start Like diesel engine
Power [kW]
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
Compact FC Sedan FC SUV FCCompact Gasoline Sedan GasolineCompact Diesel Sedan Diesel
SUV GasolineSUV Diesel
Sedan H2 ICE
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Con
sum
ptio
n [M
J/km
]Fig. 2 – Specific energy consumption of different vehicles
[4,5].
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2. Requirements
Table 1 lists some important requirements on hydrogen
storage systems imposed by a typical 100 kW fuel cell vehicle.
From a user’s perspective, vehicle range is perhaps the most
obvious design objective. The data in Fig. 1 indicate clearly
that the range of current fuel cell vehicles is unsatisfactory,
due to the difficulties of onboard hydrogen storage.
The mass of fuel required for a certain range can be derived
directly from the specific energy consumption of the vehicle,
see Fig. 2. Most fuel cell vehicles have a specific consumption
in the order of 1–1.2 MJ/km, which corresponds to roughly 1 kg
of hydrogen per 100 km.
The weight and volume of different vehicular hydrogen
storage systems are shown in Fig. 3. Apparently, high pressure
systems have by far the best gravimetric capacity, a factor of
crucial importance in vehicle engineering. Hence high pres-
sure storage was used in more than 90% of the fuel cell vehi-
cles introduced in the last years [6]. Although 70 MPa high
pressure storage can be regarded as the state-of-the-art in
hydrogen storage, the volumetric capacity of this technology
is still significantly below design targets stated, e.g. by DoE
[11]. This shortcoming, combined with restrictions in tank
design, is the main reason for the low range of current
hydrogen-fueled vehicles.
Solid state hydrogen storage is a technology that has
demonstrated significantly higher volumetric capacity, see
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
Ran
ge [
km]
Power [kW]
Compact FC Sedan FC SUV FCCompact Gasoline Sedan GasolineCompact Diesel Sedan Diesel
SUV GasolineSUV Diesel
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
Fig. 1 – Range as a function of installed power in current
fuel cell-, gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles [4,5].
again Fig. 3. The identification of storage materials with higher
capacity is an active area of ongoing research. It is the objec-
tive of the present paper to identify proper design objectives,
which should guide the further development of solid state
hydrogen storage materials suitable for fuel cell vehicle
applications.
2.1. Gravimetric vs. volumetric storage capacity
A disadvantage of metal hydride storage systems is in general
the high weight due to the low gravimetric storage capacity of
thermodynamically suitable materials. Recently, many
classes of materials were found to be technically reversible at
moderate pressures, e.g. alanates [15], amide/hydride-
systems [16] and borohydrides [17] (see Table 2). Also, kineti-
cally stabilized materials that are supposed to be regenerated
5
4
3
2
1
0
Grav. Storage Density [kgH2 / 100kg System]
Vol
. Sto
rage
Den
sity
[kgH
2 / 1
00l S
yste
m]
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
DoE Goal2010
35 MPa70 MPaLiquid HydrogenMetal Hydride
Fig. 3 – Volumetric and gravimetric storage density of
different automotive hydrogen storage systems
[7–9,10–12].
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Table 2 – Properties of hydrogen storage materials investigated previously. A more exhaustive overview on the state-of-the-art is given in Ref. [30].
No. Reaction cmax [wt-%] Drh [kJ/mol] Source
(1) LiBH4þ 1/2MgH2 / LiHþ 1/2MgB2þ 2H2 11.46 41 [22]
(2) LiNH2þ LiH / Li2NHþH2 6.47 45 [16]
(3) Na2LiAlH6 / 2NaHþ LiHþAlþ 3/2H2 3.49 56 [23]
(4) Mg(NH2)2þ 2LiH / Li2MgN2H2þ 2H2 5.54 44 [24]
(5) 1/3Na3AlH6þ 2/3Al / NaHþAlþ 1/2H2 1.85 47 [15]
(6) NaAlH4 / 1/3Na3AlH6þ 2/3AlþH2 3.7 37 [15]
(7) LaNi5H6 / LaNi5þ 3H2 1.38 30 [25]
(8) Ti0.98Zr0.02V0.43Fe0.1Cr0.05Mn1.5H3 / Ti0.98Zr0.02V0.43Fe0.1Cr0.05Mn1.5þ 3/2H2 1.8 22–29 [26]
(9) Ti0.98Zr0.02V0.43Fe0.1Cr0.05Mn1.5þ 3/2H2 / Ti0.98Zr0.02V0.43Fe0.1Cr0.05Mn1.5H3 1.8 22–29 [27]
(10) TiMn1.5V0.45Fe0.1þ 3/2H2 / TiMn1.5V0.45Fe0.1H3 1.5 28 [28]
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off-board were investigated intensively [18]. In terms of
gravimetric storage capacity, these materials are superior to
the low temperature metal hydrides. However, the increase in
gravimetric density was mainly achieved by using lighter
elements in combination with Ti-containing precursors. It can
be concluded that for a given hydrogen mass (derived from
a desired range) the material volume and therefore also the
necessary mass for the encasing pressure vessel may increase
and lead to a storage system that is heavier and larger than
current low temperature hydride systems.
Let us point out the consequence for systems engineering
in a short parameter study. For a given internal vessel volume,
the stored hydrogen mass is calculated as a function of typical
material properties like density, porosity and storage capacity.
As the required vessel and heat exchanger properties also
depend on the material properties, this approach implies
a certain inaccuracy, but nevertheless it provides a powerful
method with which to screen the potential of materials for
systems applications. The input values and resulting
hydrogen masses are given in Tables 3 and 4.
The results are somehow surprising: the volumetric
storage capacity of the system decreases despite the
increasing gravimetric capacity of the material. Even the net
gravimetric system capacity may decrease if the necessary
vessel becomes significantly larger and thus heavier. In
consequence this means that it is not enough to increase the
gravimetric storage capacity, the improvement also has to be
larger than the corresponding decrease in volumetric capacity
in order to realize an overall advantage (Fig. 3). It is therefore
suggested to place more emphasis on volumetric storage
density when screening new materials.
2.2. Transfer of heat of desorption
PEM Fuel Cells have an operating temperature of about
70–80�C, which implies that heat for desorption is available at
Table 3 – Input and resulting values of the parameterstudy (see Table 2 for the materials considered).
(8) (5)þ (6) (2) (1)
Typical material density [g/cm3] 6.2 1.25 1.26 0.66
Typical porosity [%] 50 50 50 50
Typical storage capacity [wt-%] 1.8 5.55 6.5 11.5
Stored hydrogen mass [10�2 g/cm3] 5.6 3.4 4.1 3.8
that temperature or lower. The necessary heat flow rate into
the hydrogen storage medium can be calculated from the
required hydrogen flow rate and the specific reaction enthalpy
of the storage material. A 100 kW fuel cell with an efficiency of
about 40% will require 2 g of hydrogen per second from the
storage system at full load. A typical low temperature metal
hydride with a reaction enthalpy of 20–30 kJ/mol will therefore
require a heat transfer rate of 20–30 kW at full power.
Fig. 4 illustrates the fraction of total fuel cell waste heat
required by the hydrogen storage medium versus fuel cell
power. The fraction is particularly high at low power, where
the fuel cell exhibits higher efficiency, and reaches
a maximum value of almost 50%! The transfer of such a large
amount of heat requires a large heat transfer coefficient
(difficult to realize technically), a large heat transfer area (high
weight) or a large temperature difference between the heat
transfer fluid and the material itself (difficult to realize due to
thermodynamic constraints).
The optimal solution lies in finding a material that desorbs
hydrogen at the lowest temperature possible with high pres-
sure equipment and sealing technologies to allow for a high
temperature difference. Selecting a storage material with the
appropriate temperature and pressure working range requires
an understanding of the operating envelope defined by the
vehicle operating conditions.
Current 70 MPa systems have a specified minimum
working temperature limit of�40�C. A typical fuel cell vehicle
requires a minimum input pressure of about 0.8 MPa in order
to overcome the pressure drop in pipes and valves. Thus, the
minimum condition for a thermodynamically ideal material is
set to an equilibrium pressure of 0.8 MPa at �40�C.
Conversely, the upper limit is given by the maximum
temperature and working pressure of the vessel. The
maximum temperature of the system is set at 80�C as defined
by the continuous coolant temperature. The pressure can be
arbitrarily chosen and must at least match the equilibrium
Table 4 – Input and resulting values of the parameterstudy (see Table 2 for the materials considered).
Typical value of . (8) (5)þ (6) (2) (1)
Material density [g/cm3] 6.2 1.25 1.26 0.66
Porosity [%] 50 50 50 50
Gravimetric capacity [wt-%] 1.8 5.55 6.5 11.5
Volumetric capacity [10�2 g/cm3] 5.6 3.4 4.1 3.8
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50
40
30
20
10
0Hea
t of
Des
orpt
ion
/ Tot
al W
aste
Hea
t [%
]
Fuel Cell Power [kW]0 20 40 60 80 100
Δrh = 30 kJ/mol
Δrh = 25 kJ/mol
Δrh = 20 kJ/mol
Fig. 4 – Fraction of fuel cell waste heat needed for
desorption of hydrogen from metal hydride.
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pressure at that temperature. As 70 MPa-systems are avail-
able, even metal hydride systems with this working pressure
would be conceivable. Although the advantages of high pres-
sure metal hydride tanks have been known for many years
[19], such storage systems have only been presented recently
[20,7]. These concepts are very interesting from an engi-
neering point of view. However, apart from high cost of such
systems the issue remains how to safely avoid the over-
heating during fast filling [21].
Fig. 5 shows various well-investigated hydrides relevant for
research and application. The figure highlights that only the
low temperature metal hydrides are compatible with the
thermodynamic constraints imposed by the fuel cell system.
Identifying a material that has higher storage capacity at these
conditions must remain a focus of further research activities.
2.3. Refueling time at low temperatures
One important requirement is the refueling time of the
storage system. Although some authors consider a refueling
Inverse Temperature [10-3/K]
1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
Equ
ilibr
ium
Pre
ssur
e [M
Pa]
101
100
10-1
10-2
(2)
(3)
(4)
(1)
(10)
(9)
(8)(7)
(6)
(5)
T=85°C T=-40°C
Fig. 5 – Overview of different hydrides relevant for research
and application. The legend is given in Table 2.
time of 10 min acceptable, the comparison with gasoline
vehicles indicates that 3 min or less must be achieved under
all ambient temperatures. Current 70 MPa systems with 4 kg
of hydrogen fulfill this requirement [14] and set the bench-
mark for metal hydride systems. Thermodynamically,
absorption is possible with all the materials depicted in Fig. 5
and a charging pressure of 5 MPa. In practice, most of the
‘‘new’’ materials react much slower than desired, especially
when the temperature of the hydride is low. Fig. 6 shows
absorption experiments on a sample of 25 g of sodium alanate
with a Ti-precursor prepared at Forschungszentrum Karls-
ruhe. Obviously, the absorption time strongly depends on
temperature and pressure. Although all experiments reached
a final capacity of more than 4 wt-% (not shown here), the
reaction was very slow at temperatures below 80�C. The
reason is that for the reaction (Eq. (1)), not only an activation
barrier has to be overcome, but also a solid–solid reaction
must take place. This in turn requires metal diffusion which is
slow at low temperatures [29]. This metal to metal interaction
may hinder the fast reaction kinetics required to satisfy the
fast fill requirements under vehicle conditions with the
material classes (1)–(6) in Fig. 5. In this case, off-board loading
with additional heat supply would be necessary.
NaHþAlþ 32H2/
13
Na3AlH6 þ23
AlþH2/NaAlH4 (1)
2.4. Cold start
One major drawback of the first generation of fuel cell vehicles
was their limitation to temperatures above 0�C. Second
generation vehicles already allow for starting at temperatures
down to �20�C. With a high pressure tank hydrogen is easily
supplied even at such conditions, whereas a metal hydride
tank has fundamental difficulties to provide sufficient
hydrogen.
There are several aspects to consider when starting a fuel
cell system at temperatures below 0�C, but one rule always
holds true: the fuel cell must heat up as fast as possible to an
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
Hyd
roge
n C
once
ntra
tion
[w
t-%
]
0 60 120 180
Time [s]
60°C / 2.5 MPa 80°C / 2.5 MPa 100°C / 2.5 MPa40°C / 5 MPa100°C / 5 MPa 120°C / 5 MPa
80°C / 5 MPa60°C / 5 MPa
Fig. 6 – Absorption experiments with NaAlH4.
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90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Coo
lant
Tem
pera
ture
[°C
]
Time after vehicle start [min]0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Fig. 7 – Heating curves of a Mercedes-Benz F-Cell fuel cell
system during daily operation (own experiments).
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uncritical temperature, e.g. 50�C, to ensure good performance,
avoid degradation and remove liquid water. Therefore the
whole fuel cell waste heat must be used exclusively for that
purpose.
Fig. 7 shows the coolant temperature of a Mercedes-Benz
F-Cell vs. time during daily operation. The properties of the
fuel cell system are given elsewhere [9]. In the experiment,
both parameters were logged when the driver started the
vehicle. Most of the drive cycles are rather short. The
temperature curve strongly depends on the initial tempera-
ture of the system, the ambient temperature and the driving
cycle. As these experiments were performed in summer, the
lowest temperature recorded is about 10�C. However, the time
gap between vehicle start and availability of waste heat at the
desired temperature (e.g. 70 �C, depending on the design of the
heat exchanger of the metal hydride system) has to be
bridged. At relatively high initial temperatures this appears to
be feasible by taking advantage of the sensible heat of the
material itself and the support of the battery system, but at
low initial temperatures this might prove very challenging. It
must thus be concluded that the cold start is a crucial issue for
a combined automotive fuel cell/metal hydride system,
especially if one considers that at low power, where the fuel
cell has its best efficiency, almost half of the waste heat is
needed for desorption (Fig. 4).
3. Conclusion
Adopting an automotive engineering point of view, four
important aspects of solid state hydrogen storage systems for
fuel cell vehicle applications have been discussed. It was
shown that there are certain issues of this storage technology
which may hinder the widespread application in conventional
fuel cell vehicles. Overall system mass is strongly dependent
on both material gravimetric and volumetric capacity. Cold
start and fueling time also represent significant engineering
and thermodynamic challenges, which must be resolved.
Further research on storage materials and systems
engineering should take the findings discussed in this paper
into account in order to adequately explore the limitations
and capabilities of this storage technology.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the working group of Dr. M.
Fichtner at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany, for
providing the material used for the experiment cited in this
paper.
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