| Edit | Entry | Comments | Organisation Site | Fuel storage |
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 | Loughborough Univ, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) | CREST researches into the integration of hydrogen energy storage with renewable energy sources. This includes the production of hydrogen via electrolysis driven by intermittent power sources, plus overall system design and power electronic control of autonomous energy systems of this type.
| CREST | Yes |
| Loughborough Univ, Dept Aeronautical & Automotive Engineering | The dept maintains close links with industry and research establishments through its research and consultancy activities, and contains a custom-built Fuel Cell and Electric Vehicle Laboratory, with 4 wall-mounted stations for the supply of hydrogen, oxygen, compressed air and other gases. This facility accommodates the testing of both fuel cell stacks and fuel cell sub-systems.
| Dept Aeronautical & Automotive Engineering | Yes |
| Umist, Dept of Chemical Engineering | The dept has activities and expertise in oxidation catalysis and electrocatalysis in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), hydrogen storage and liquid organic hydrides as hydrogen storage media, integration of hydrogen storage systems with SOFC systems, and alternative SOFC electrolyte materials and fabrication processes.
| Dept of Chemical Eng. | Yes |
| Univ of Birmingham, Dept of Metallurgy & Materials | The dept is active in the synthesis of novel materials for solid-state storage of hydrogen, the advanced membrane materials for hydrogen purification, and the evaluation of the interaction of hydrogen with a range of infrastructure materials required in the hydrogen supply chain (from generation to end-use).
| Applied Alloy Chemistry Group | Yes |
| Univ of Leeds School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering | Extensive fuel cell test units, operating at 900-1200K with an output of up to 1 kW equipped with reactant humidification control for hydrogen or simulated reformatted mixtures. Experimental research on fuel cell performance and internal reforming at the anode and analysis of exhaust gas can be performed on the test rigs. Over 20 years research on hydrogen and biogas production, storage, transportation and combustion. Our expertise in biomass includes all areas of the thermal conversion, co-combustion and pre/post combustion/gasification of biomass.
| School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering | Yes |
| Univ of Nottingham, H Storage Group | Group expertise centres around synthetic techniques covering organic, inorganic, coordination, covalent and ionic solid compounds. Characterisation capabilities include single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction (ex- and in-situ), sorption and thermal analysis techniques (TG-DTA, DSC, IGA, BET etc), vibrational and resonance spectroscopy (IR, Raman, NMR, EPR), XPS and ToF SIMS, magnetometry (SQUID, MCD) and electron microscopy (SEM, TEM, EPMA, EDX, WDS, SAED etc).
| Sch of Chemistry Research | Yes |
| Univ of Nottingham, School Mech, Materials & Manufacturing Eng | The synthesis, modification and performance testing of nanomaterials for hydrogen storage. Systems of interest include catalysed light metal hydrides, nanostructured carbons and nanocomposites.
| School of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Eng | Yes |
| Univ of Reading, School of Chemistry | Research activities include polymer chemistry, synthesis of new ionomers, fabrication of such materials into proton transport membranes and (in collaboration with industry) membrane-electrode assemblies for air-hydrogen fuel cells, molecular simulation and diffraction-modelling of aromatic polymer structures, and hydrogen storage.
| School of Chemistry, Research Activities | Yes |
| Univ of Salford, Institute for Materials Research | Activities include major user of neutron-scattering techniques to analyse behaviour of hydrogen in solides, developed Intelligent Gravimetric Analyser, now commercialised by HIDEN Isochema, used by many hydrogen storage groups, ab initio calculations of energy surface seen by hydrogen in metallic and non-metallic systems, and prediction of inelastice neutron scattering surface.
| Institute of Materials Research | Yes |
| Univ of Sheffield, Dept Chemical & Process Eng | Research activities include fire and explosion safety of hydrogen, transportation of hydrogen using high-pressure pipeline technology and hydrogen production technologies from gasification , biological processes and sulphur iodine processes.
| Chemical & Process Eng Research | Yes |
| Univ of Southampton, Comb Centre of Excellence | Research interests are Model Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electrocatalysis, High Throughput Thin Film Materials Synthesis and Screening, PEM Fuel Cell (hydrogen, reformate and direct methanol), and Hydrogen Storage Materials.
| Surface Science & Heterogeneous Catalysis Research Gp | Yes |