ELECTROCHEMICAL HYDROGEN STORAGE

A, VISINTIN; C. WANG,; J. H. BARICUATRO; M. P. SORIAGA

Handbook of Sustainable Energy

2009 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Año: 2009; p. 1 - 22

The use of hydride-forming metal alloys as hydrogen storage materials offers to provide high volumetric energy densities comparable to that of liquid hydrogen. Nickel-metal hydride (Ni/MH) batteries employ this type of metal alloy electrode for advanced electricity storage systems in electric vehicles. Advances in the compositional design of different alloy electrodes for use in Ni/MH batteries are described in this manuscript. A report is included on the physicochemical properties of these electrochemical hydrogen-storage materials and their application to hybrid cars.