Abstract:
A tank configured to reversibly store hydrogen, including: a plurality of cylindrically shaped casings each containing hydrides and each configured to be filled or emptied by the hydrogen being respectively absorbed or desorbed by the hydrides; a solid part made from thermally insulating material and having a low heat capacity being penetrated, within, by a plurality of cylindrically-shaped slots, the diameter of each of which is greater than that of a casing; a tank in which the casing is housed individually in a slot leaving an annular volume free between same such that to be traversed by a heat transfer fluid, following a defined circuit in each annular volume from an inlet common to all the annular volumes to an outlet which is also common.
Abstract:
A reversible H2 storage system includes: a hydrogen storage tank including an enclosure containing metal hydrides incorporated into a heat exchanger having two fluid circuits, referred to as the primary exchanger, a hydrogen circulation circuit, referred to as the first circuit, linked to the inside of the enclosure, to supply or recover the H2 respectively to be absorbed or desorbed by the metal hydrides, the part of the first circuit inside the enclosure forming one of the exchanger circuits, a circuit for the circulation of a heat-transfer fluid, referred to as the second circuit, linked to the exchanger, the part of the second circuit in the exchanger forming the other of the circuits of the exchanger, the first and second circuits being sealed relative to each other, a pressurising device for bringing the pressure value in the second circuit to a value close to that in the first circuit.
Abstract:
A fixed-bed tubular reactor that extends between first and second ends and includes a bed of catalyst powder confined in an annular space defined by an outer wall of a hollow tube and an inner wall of a hollow insert, which comprises a distribution chamber and a collection chamber. The tubular reactor comprises at least one make-up chamber separated from the at least one distribution chamber and the at least one collection chamber by at least one first dividing wall. The at least one make-up chamber has an inlet port for at least one make-up fluid, which differs from the reactive gases, at the first end and an outlet port for the at least one make-up fluid at the second end.
Abstract:
A tubular reactor includes a bed of catalytic powder confined within an annular space, a hollow insert having a distribution chamber and a collection chamber, and a second wall comprising at least one distributing opening and at least one collecting opening. The reactor has at least one filtering element positioned at the at least one collecting opening and at the at least one distributing opening, preventing the passage of catalytic powder from the annular space to the at least one collection chamber and distribution chamber, and bearing against the outer surface of the second wall and covering the at least one collecting opening and distributing opening and/or being housed inside the at least one collecting opening and distributing opening.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a tank for storing hydrogen by absorption into a hydrogen-storage material. The tank contains a chamber, a hydrogen feed inlet, a hydrogen discharge outlet, and an inner structure for storing the hydrogen-storage material. The inner structure contains a stack along a longitudinal axis of at least two levels for containing the storage material. Each level includes a distributor cup, a receiver cup for the storage material, and a collector cup. The distributor cups, receiver cups and collector cups are stacked one on top of the other and rigidly and sealingly connected to one another. The invention also relates to a distribution pipe distributing in parallel hydrogen in the distributor cups such that, for each level, hydrogen flows from each distributor cup to the collector cup by passing through the storage material.
Abstract:
A tubular reactor includes a bed of catalyst powder confined within an annular space, a hollow insert having a distribution chamber and a collection chamber, and a second wall having at least one distribution opening and at least one collection opening. The second wall of the hollow insert includes, on at least a first longitudinal portion of the insert defined along the longitudinal axis, at least one offset distribution opening and at least one offset collection opening, every offset distribution opening being contained in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis different from any plane transverse to the longitudinal axis containing an offset collection opening so that the direction of flow of gas distributed and/or admitted between an offset collection opening and an offset distribution opening has an axial component.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a hydrogen compressor (10) with metal hydride comprising: a pressure chamber (20), comprising an inner space, defined by a first inner surface (21); a shell (70) with a thickness E, the shell (70) comprising a first outer surface (71) facing the first inner surface (21), the shell (70) comprising an insulating material with first thermal conductivity; and a hydrogen storage element (50), contained in the shell (70), comprising a storage material suitable for storing or releasing hydrogen as a function of a temperature that is imposed on same, and having a second thermal conductivity higher than the first thermal conductivity.
Abstract:
A hydrogen storage tank includes a shell of longitudinal axis, a hydrogen supply and collection duct, and a stack of a plurality of divider elements. Each divider element forms a bottom accepting a hydrogen storage material. The largest transverse dimension of the divider elements is less than the largest transverse dimension of the internal volume of the shell, and the tank includes a plurality of seals in the space formed between the divider element and the shell as a result of the difference in largest transverse dimension.