An International Laboratory Comparison Study of Volumetric and Gravimetric Hydrogen Adsorption Measurements

Katherine Hurst, Thomas Gennett, Philip Parilla, Jesse Adams, Mark Allendorf, Rafael Balderas-Xicohtencatl, Marek Bielewski, Bryce Edwards, Laura Espinal, Brent Fultz, Michael Hirscher, M. Sterlin Hudson, Zeric Hulvey, Michel LaTroche, Di-Jia Liu, Matthew Kapelewski, Emilio Napolitano, Zachary Perry, Justin Purewal, Vitalie StavilaMike Veenstra, James White, Yuping Yuan, Hong-Cai Zhou, Claudia Zlotea

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Abstract

In order to determine a material's hydrogen storage potential, capacity measurements must be robust, reproducible, and accurate. Commonly, research reports focus on the gravimetric capacity, and often times the volumetric capacity is not reported. Determining volumetric capacities is not as straight-forward, especially for amorphous materials. This is the first study to compare measurement reproducibility across laboratories for excess and total volumetric hydrogen sorption capacities based on the packing volume. The use of consistent measurement protocols, common analysis, and figure of merits for reporting data in this study, enable the comparison of the results for two different materials. Importantly, the results show good agreement for excess gravimetric capacities amongst the laboratories. Irreproducibility for excess and total volumetric capacities is attributed to real differences in the measured packing volume of the material.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)1997-2009
Number of pages13
JournalChemPhysChem
Volume20
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

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© 2019 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-5900-74226

Keywords

  • comparative measurement study
  • excess capacity
  • hydrogen storage measurement
  • volumetric capacity

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