ABSTRACT

The chapter deals with the safe design of the hydrogen storage tank, which includes a set of cylindrical metal containers made of stainless steel filled with carbon nanotubes; a cooling jacket made of liquid nitrogen in the likeness of a Dewar vessel into which metal containers with carbon nanotubes (singlewalled carbon nanotubes, SWNT) are dipped and filled with gaseous hydrogen. The analyses of the scheme of the experiment are presented and the results of the study of hydrogen storage at a liquid nitrogen temperature are shown. It is confirmed that hydrogen at the temperature of liquid nitrogen is retained by the SWNT in the accumulator tank, and at normal temperature, it is released. The data of microscopic (Phenom Pro microscope) and sorption studies of SWNT conglomerates of scaly structure are presented in this chapter.