This is the End of Activity Report for the RMIT University Melbourne Hydrogen Storage and Transport R&D Project. This project aimed to develop an integrated system for storage of electricity from renewable energy and export the stored energy as hydrogen within hydrogenated carbon-based material.
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This report is the End of Activity Report for the RMIT University Melbourne Hydrogen Storage and Transport R & D Project, entitled “A proton flow reactor system for electrical energy storage and bulk export of hydrogenated carbon-based material”. The aim has been to develop an integrated system for storage of electricity from renewable energy and export the stored energy as hydrogen within hydrogenated carbon-based material.
A novel ‘proton flow reactor’ (PFR) system for producing hydrogenated carbon(C)-based powder for bulk export has been developed. This reactor – a novel and scaled-up extension of RMIT’s innovative proton battery concept – uses electricity from renewables to split water and charge a stream of C-particles in a slurry electrode with the protons produced. The system is zero-emission and environmentally-benign. It offers a way to export a hydrogen-rich solid carbon material charged using renewable energy, as well as to store intermittent renewable energy on electricity grids at various scales.