HyVis Pro Hydrogen Storage System
Technical Field of the Invention:
This invention aims to provide a solution for safe hydrogen storage, thereby facilitating the transition of energy sources towards a free-flowing hydrogen economy with a higher efficient hydrogen storage capacity in the same uniform volume for >100L industrial applications.
Introduction and Background
Several exigent concerns are now being addressed by the global energy source shift. These include the underutilisation of the hydrogen economy, the necessity of both quantitative and qualitative ultimate energy sources for the energy transition, and the immediacy of enacting legislation to achieve net neutrality. Other important considerations are the quest for alternative energy sources to attain global neutrality and implementing a hydrogen economy in industries and countries according to their carbon footprint. Reducing global carbon dioxide emissions, primarily due to exploiting carbon-based energy sources, is one of the critical motivations for adopting hydrogen. These sources, divided into industrial energy, transportation, building energy, unallocated fuel combustion, fugitive energy emissions, and agricultural energy uses, contribute roughly 73.4% of all world emissions.
The rising hydrogen economy is gaining popularity with hydrogen storage and adsorption technologies due to the essential worldwide energy transition dilemma. Lately, complicated hydrides have been one of the most dependable materials for storing and conveying hydrogen gas to different fuel cells to produce sustainable energy with zero carbon emissions. Green hydrogen-based, effective energy-integrated systems must be replaced by current energy sources due to the steadily rising carbon emissions. Because hydrogen has a more significant energy content per mass than any other fuel and because containing such a fuel requires hydrogen storage, which also aids in decoupling hydrogen production, hydrogen storage is essential to integrating hydrogen integration systems. There are several possibilities for hydrogen storage, including high-pressure tanks, liquid oxygen carrier tanks, and adsorption and absorption hydrogen storage methods. With the rapid development of hydrogen storage, we still don’t have significant industry-level storage to commercialise hydrogen rapidly. There is also an urgent need to not only generate hydrogen, but it should also be sustainable.
Brief Description of the Drawings
The engineering drawing figures elucidated represent a hydrogen storage system with the principle of maximum safety and highly efficient hydrogen storage capacity compared with the same volume of vessels for industrial applications (>100L).
Detailed Description of the Drawings
1. The conventional cube (1) hydrogen carriers contain pressure in its uniformity with constant hydrogen storage capacity. Based on the HyVis Pro Hydrogen Storage Carrier, there is an increase of 191% in surface area around the storage vessel, giving hydrogen a very high storage capacity.
2. Through the significant increase in the surface area, as the storage capacity of hydrogen increases through metal hydrides, there is also a stable increase in the stability of the hydrogen. The metal hydride layer also engraves uniform hemisphere cuttings (14) throughout the layer, providing more hydrogen storage capacity.
3. This design contains a multilayer unit of Perforated Stainless Steel and Carbon Nanotube Composite (9), Reinforced acrylic (10), Cellulose Acetate Phalate- Multiwalled Carbon Nanocomposite (11), Graphene Oxide (12) and Variable Metal Hydrides (13) (based on requirement) (Lithium Alanates, Lithium Amides, Magnesium Alanates, Magnesium Amides, Calcium Alanates and Calcium Amides). All layers are integrated to stabilize physical and chemical hydrogen adsorption. For a 125L hydrogen carrier, the width of stainless steel-CNT composite, reinforced acrylic, CAP-MWCNTs, Graphene Oxide, and Metal Hydrides are 2m, 1.5m, 1.5m, 1m and 2.2 m, respectively. The proportions can be altered by direct proportions with the width based on industrial requirements.
4. This vessel contains 246 semi-hexagonal star-like structures (2) protruding at 4 angles each of 154.6o and 169.1o angle. It includes the same integrated layers (15,16,17,18,19) to maximise the adsorption and stability of hydrogen for the safest industrial applications.
5. Along with multiple layers to ensure safe hydrogen storage, there are 6 autocut sensors (7), 2 temperature sensors (6), 2 pressure sensors (5), 2 Valves (8) with Multi-Flow Controllers (3) and 2 relative humidity (4) sensors attached to the HyVis Pro Hydrogen Storage System.
6. To ensure maximum safety, auto-cut sensors are installed in a suddenly varied temperature and pressure which is not in the range of pressure ranges (250-750 bar) and temperature ranges (10-60℃), the gas supply of hydrogen from the production unit to the storage tank will be stopped through valves. This helps to ensure no hydrogen leaks or exploding of the storage vessels, making for smooth hydrogen transfer for mobile applications.
7. A TRPD (Thermal Relief Pressure Device) and Multi-Pressure Flow Controllers help store risk-free hydrogen in the vessel and transfer the hydrogen gas flow to the respective application unit for its working through valves via hydrogen energy. This also allows the storage vessel to act as a recharging station for hydrogen industrial applications.
8. The semi-hexagonal star-like structures (23) are attached to the cube vessel in a L-shaped structure containing a polysiloxane layer to ensure leak-proof hydrogen storage with increased surface area. The cube has holes similar to the surface area of the L-shaped structure (20,21,22) at the bottom of the stars from where they are fitted. The L-shaped structure is based to proportionate to the total width of the layers inside the cube vessel to ensure a uniform pressure, humidity, and temperature environment for stable, risk-free, and safest structurally engineered hydrogen storage.
Claims
1. The HyVis Pro hydrogen storage tank comprised of
Wherein the hydrogen stored in the vessel has maximum stability due to increased surface area compared to the conventional hydrogen storage system, and there is a minimum risk for storage due to advanced autocut sensors and vulcanised rubber for coating spikes and spheres of the storage vessel.
Wherein the hydrogen stored in the vessel has ultra stability due to the maximum surface area structurally possible compared to the conventional hydrogen storage system, and there is a minimum risk for storage due to advanced autocut sensors and vulcanised polysiloxane for coating semi-hexagonal star-like structures and cube of the storage vessel.
2. The HyVis Pro Storage System is a state-of-the-art system not yet used for hydrogen storage in industrial applications. It is an entirely novel and one-of-its-kind structure.
3. The HyVis Pro Storage System, as defined in Claim 1 and Claim 2, further comprises a multi-flow controller to demonstrate the multi-flow of hydrogen from the production unit to the storage unit and storage unit to applications acting as a recharging system.
4. Based on the HyVis Pro Storage System defined in Claim 1 and Claim 2, vulcanised poly(dimethylsiloxane) is an extreme mediator of leak-free hydrogen storage. It ensures the maximum air-tight manufacture of the HyVis Pro Storage System.
5. Based on the HyVis Pro Storage System defined in Claim 1 and Claim 2, relative humidity sensors also act as a leak indicator based on values indicated in the sensor. The positioning of all the sensors has been structurally simulated at
6. Based on the HyVis Pro Storage System defined in Claim 1 and Claim 2, all the sensors are interconnected to one another based on IoT applications. Through the values of sensors, autocut sensors are integrated, which act upon any discrepancies in the ranges of values pre-defined in the sensors. This helps in the symbiotic working of the sensors for efficient working and maintenance of the system.
7. All the storage semi-hexagonal star-like structures maximally increase the surface through which the stability and the hydrogen storage capacity increase to their maximum potential.
8. Hydrogen’s chemical and physical adsorption only occurs at the metal hydride layer; the rest of the layers act as explosive and high-resistance pressure layers to keep hydrogen stable during the hydrogen storage dynamics. The scoop-like cutting of the metal hydride variable composite layer increases the active sites through which hydrogen is stored, increasing its efficiency.
9. The semi-hexagonal star-like structure in integration with the cube hydrogen storage vessel showcases a mega increase of 191% in hydrogen storage capacity compared to the same volume of a conventional cube hydrogen storage vessel, making it the safest and most efficient hydrogen storage system possible at >100L storage setup.
10. Based on the HyVis Pro Storage System defined in Claim 9, the structure exhibits another novel, efficient and affordable alternative of screw-like structure. Through the L-shaped structure, it gives a better and less complex mechanism of air-tight structure between semi-hexagonal star-like structure and cube.