However the main difference is that when the hydrogen would warm up due to heat transfer with the environment boil off the tank is allowed to go to pressures much higher up to 350 bars versus a couple of bars for liquid storage.
Cryo compressed hydrogen tank.
The cryo tank will contain between 6 2 kg and 10 7 kg of hydrogen if the tank is refueled with subcritical liquid hydrogen and the initial tank liner and carbon fiber temperature is between 180 k and 300 k.
Cryo compressed hydrogen storage refers to the storage of hydrogen at cryogenic temperatures in a vessel that can be pressurized nominally to 250 350 atm in contrast to current cryogenic vessels that store liquid hydrogen at near ambient pressures.
The compressed hydrogen is stored in a tank composed of a polymer liner and a composite structure that supports the mechanical forces.
Hydrogen tank 60bar 850l.
The design of the cryo compressed storage tank is similar to that of a liquid hydrogen tank and consists of an inner vessel taking the form of a carbon fiber reinforced composite pressure vessel with a metal liner an all enveloping layer of vacuum super insulation with multi layer radiation shields to minimize heat input into the inner vessel and a lightweight outer vessel which acts as a vacuum enclosure.
Our storage and transport facilities range from specially insulated tanks for lh 2 to pressure tight containers cylinders cylinder bundles tanks and pipes for cgh 2 at various operating sites.
Refueling with compressed h.
At 300 k adiabatic refueling assuming that liner cf and gas are isothermal during refueling maximum possible capacity tank refueled to 272 atm 4000 psi peak pressure 4 atm initial pressure variable initial temperature additional storage capacity with pre cooled h.
As pointed out by aceves et al.
We also specialise in both compressed gaseous hydrogen cgh 2 and cryogenic liquid hydrogen lh 2 which has a temperature of 253 c.
Like liquid storage cryo compressed uses cold hydrogen 20 3 k and slightly above in order to reach a high energy density.
Cryo compressed hydrogen storage limits choice of materials improve resins engineered fibers and composites for cryogenic performance lack of material properties data and investigate material properties throughout understanding of failure mechanisms at 253 c to 120 c cryogenic temperatures lack of applicable codes and standards for develop acceptance testing criteria for base materials acceptance materials and engineered systems.