Hydrogen Storage Research Training Network (HYTRAIN)

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Darius Milčius

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Liudas Pranevičius

Liudvikas Pranevičius

Neringa Vištakytė

Ref no.	Project name	Hydrogen Storage Research Training Network (HYTRAIN)

Name of legal entity	Country	Overall contract value (EUR)	Proportion carried out by legal entity (%)	No of staff provided	Name of client	Origin of funding	Dates (start/end)	Name of consortium members, if any
Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI)	Lithuania	2 653 631	3,05	4	European Commission	European Commission	01.01.2005 / 01.01.2009	AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA, Poland. CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, France. COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE, France. COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES - DIRECTORATE GENERAL JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE, Belgium. CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, Italy. GKSS - FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACHT GMBH, Germany. INSTITUT FOR ENERGITEKNIKK, Norway. LIETUVOS ENERGETIKOS INSTITUTAS, Lithuania. MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V., Germany. QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, United Kingdom. STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET, Sweden. THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom. UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE, Spain. UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTÉ, France. UNIVERSITE DE GENÈVE, Switzerland. UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, United Kingdom.

Detailed description of the project	Type and scope of services provided
HYTRAIN integrates the leading centres in Europe active in hydrogen storage research within a coherent framework of dedicated networking activities focused on the training of young researchers through a joint innovative research programme. The core researc h objectives of HYTRAIN are to: propose and assess innovative methods of storage from the point of view of full engineering design; allow for a better response time to suggested novel storage materials, enabling quick assessment and development to the prot otype stage; achieve an accelerated transfer of research results to the corresponding engineering applications; and to ensure that basic research is informed by industrial, economic and social imperatives. HYTRAIN’s places an emphasis on longer-range solut ions, primarily hydrides and porous stores, with a view to identifying potential lightweight storage solutions and an aim of work towards practical storage tank design and hybrid solutions. Currently, no single hydrogen storage technology satisfies all of the criteria required by manufacturers and end-users. HYTRAIN’s scientific and technical activities have been structured to address the improvement and development of current and novel hydrogen storage technologies and it will lead to the generation, expl oitation and dissemination of new knowledge in a number of strategically important research areas, namely: hydrides, porous media, storage tank design and hybrid systems. The HYTRAIN research work plan takes into account the fact that the research methods for both hydrides and porous media use a number of common techniques and equipment, particularly with regard to sample characterisation. The rationale for this is that trainee researchers are likely to obtain a greater benefit at the research training lev el from the proposed structure, as it emphasises the complimentarity of the various techniques. The work plan is structured into 5 interdependent work packages, each with a number of tasks.	The fabrication of thin film materials for hydride storage on non-traditional hydrides that are capable of 5 wt.% hydrogen capacity with a desorption temperature of less than 400 K The development of a non-equilibrium treatment technologies for the efficient hydrogenation of thin film materials

Detailed description of the project

Type and scope of services provided

HYTRAIN integrates the leading centres in Europe active in hydrogen storage research within a coherent framework of dedicated networking activities focused on the training of young researchers through a joint innovative research programme. The core researc h objectives of HYTRAIN are to: propose and assess innovative methods of storage from the point of view of full engineering design; allow for a better response time to suggested novel storage materials, enabling quick assessment and development to the prot otype stage; achieve an accelerated transfer of research results to the corresponding engineering applications; and to ensure that basic research is informed by industrial, economic and social imperatives. HYTRAIN’s places an emphasis on longer-range solut ions, primarily hydrides and porous stores, with a view to identifying potential lightweight storage solutions and an aim of work towards practical storage tank design and hybrid solutions. Currently, no single hydrogen storage technology satisfies all of the criteria required by manufacturers and end-users. HYTRAIN’s scientific and technical activities have been structured to address the improvement and development of current and novel hydrogen storage technologies and it will lead to the generation, expl oitation and dissemination of new knowledge in a number of strategically important research areas, namely: hydrides, porous media, storage tank design and hybrid systems. The HYTRAIN research work plan takes into account the fact that the research methods for both hydrides and porous media use a number of common techniques and equipment, particularly with regard to sample characterisation. The rationale for this is that trainee researchers are likely to obtain a greater benefit at the research training lev el from the proposed structure, as it emphasises the complimentarity of the various techniques. The work plan is structured into 5 interdependent work packages, each with a number of tasks.

The fabrication of thin film materials for hydride storage on non-traditional hydrides that are capable of 5 wt.% hydrogen capacity with a desorption temperature of less than 400 K
The development of a non-equilibrium treatment technologies for the efficient hydrogenation of thin film materials

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