Catalisti project: Artificial clathrates for safe storage, transport and delivery of hydrogen (ARCLATH II) (VLACAT12)

With the initial sprint cSBO ARCLATH I, we have provided a proof of concept of storing hydrogen in confined clathrate hydrates under technically and economically relevant conditions of temperature and pressure. In ARCLATH II, we aim to maximise the hydrogen storage capacity of the clathrate phase by tailoring pore size, structure and chemical functionality of the host material in order to enable the formation and stabilisation of novel clathrate structures occluding more hydrogen under similar temperature and pressure conditions. At the same time, considerable time and effort will be devoted to defining a practical process of reversible hydrogen storage and delivery based on pressure swing cycling at lab-scale.

Keywords:clathrates, safe storage, hydrogen

Disciplines:Flow chemistry

Project type:Collaboration project