M. Tech. Hydrogen storage modeling. / In this dissertation, a 2D dynamic simulation for a portion of metal hydride based hydrogen storage tank was performed using computational software COMSOL 4.0a Multiphysics. The software is used to simulate the diffusion and heating of hydrogen in both radial and axial directions. The model consists of a system of partial differential equations (PDE) describing two dimensional heat and mass transfer of hydrogen in a porous matrix. This work provides an important insight to the fundamental understanding of multi-physics coupling phenomena during hydrogen absorption/ desorption process. The simulation results could be applied to the on-board hydrogen storage technology, in particular for the hydrogen supply of a fuel cell for powering of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1000199 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Akanji, Olaitan Lukman. |
| Contributors | Kolesnikov, A. V, Thesis advisor. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
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