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Review on onshore and offshore large-scale seasonal hydrogen storage for electricity generation: Focusing on improving compression, storage, and roundtrip efficiency (2024)
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Adams, M. J., Wadge, M. D., Sheppard, D., Stuart, A., & Grant, D. M. (2024). Review on onshore and offshore large-scale seasonal hydrogen storage for electricity generation: Focusing on improving compression, storage, and roundtrip efficiency. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 73, 95-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.05.421

This article presents a comprehensive review of the current landscape and prospects of large-scale hydrogen storage technologies, with a focus on both onshore and offshore applications, and flexibility. Highlighting the evolving technological advance... Read More about Review on onshore and offshore large-scale seasonal hydrogen storage for electricity generation: Focusing on improving compression, storage, and roundtrip efficiency.

Research and development of hydrogen carrier based solutions for hydrogen compression and storage (2022)
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Dornheim, M., Baetcke, L., Akiba, E., Ares, J. R., Autrey, T., Barale, J., Baricco, M., Brooks, K., Chalkiadakis, N., Charbonnier, V., Christensen, S., Bellosta Von Colbe, J., Costamagna, M., Dematteis, E., Fernandez, J. F., Genett, T., Grant, D., Heo, T. W., Hirscher, M., Hurst, K., …Zoulias, E. (2022). Research and development of hydrogen carrier based solutions for hydrogen compression and storage. Progress in Energy, 4(4), Article 042005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/ac7cb7

Industrial and public interest in hydrogen technologies has risen strongly recently, as hydrogen is the ideal means for medium to long term energy storage, transport and usage in combination with renewable and green energy supply. In a future energy... Read More about Research and development of hydrogen carrier based solutions for hydrogen compression and storage.

Hydride-based thermal energy storage (2022)
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Adams, M., Buckley, C. E., Busch, M., Bunzel, R., Felderhoff, M., Heo, T. W., Humphries, T., Jensen, T. R., Klug, J., Klug, K. H., Møller, K. T., Paskevicius, M., Peil, S., Peinecke, K., Sheppard, D. A., Stuart, A. D., Urbanczyk, R., Wang, F., Walker, G. S., Wood, B. C., …Grant, D. M. (2022). Hydride-based thermal energy storage. Progress in Energy, 4(3), Article 032008. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/ac72ea

The potential and research surrounding metal hydride (MH) based thermal energy storage is discussed, focusing on next generation thermo-chemical energy storage (TCES) for concentrated solar power. The site availability model to represent the reaction... Read More about Hydride-based thermal energy storage.

Modelling a kinetic deviation of the magnesium hydrogenation reaction at conditions close to equilibrium (2019)
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Adams, M., Grant, D. M., Stuart, A., & Walker, G. S. (2019). Modelling a kinetic deviation of the magnesium hydrogenation reaction at conditions close to equilibrium. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44(55), 29123-29131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.04.036

A model has been derived for the magnesium hydrogenation reaction at conditions close to equilibrium. The reaction mechanism involves an adsorption element, where the model is an extension of the Langmuir adsorption model. The concept of site availab... Read More about Modelling a kinetic deviation of the magnesium hydrogenation reaction at conditions close to equilibrium.

Application of hydrides in hydrogen storage and compression: Achievements, outlook and perspectives (2019)
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Bellosta von Colbe, J., Ares, J.-R., Barale, J., Baricco, M., Buckley, C., Capurso, G., Gallandat, N., Grant, D. M., Guzik, M. N., Jacob, I., Jensen, E. H., Jensen, T., Jepsen, J., Klassen, T., Lototskyy, M. V., Manickam, K., Montone, A., Puszkiel, J., Sartori, S., Sheppard, D. A., …Dornheim, M. (2019). Application of hydrides in hydrogen storage and compression: Achievements, outlook and perspectives. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44(15), 7780-7808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.01.104

Metal hydrides are known as a potential efficient, low-risk option for high-density hydrogen storage since the late 1970s. In this paper, the present status and the future perspectives of the use of metal hydrides for hydrogen storage are discussed.... Read More about Application of hydrides in hydrogen storage and compression: Achievements, outlook and perspectives.

Analysis of genotyping for predicting liver injury marker, Procollagen III in persons at risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (2018)
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Grove, J. I., Thiagarajan, P., Astbury, S., Harris, R., Delahooke, T., Guha, I. N., & Aithal, G. P. (2018). Analysis of genotyping for predicting liver injury marker, Procollagen III in persons at risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Liver International, 38(10), 1832-1838. https://doi.org/10.1111/liv.13733

Background & Aims
Chronic liver disease presents a major global public health challenge. Stratification of asymptomatic, at-risk patients in primary care using non-invasive methods has the potential to address this by identifying those likely to pr... Read More about Analysis of genotyping for predicting liver injury marker, Procollagen III in persons at risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Evolution of catalyst coated atomised magnesium spheres: an alternative thermal storage medium for concentrated solar power applications (2017)
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Mistry, P. C., Grant, D. M., Stuart, A. D., Manickam, K., & Walker, G. S. (in press). Evolution of catalyst coated atomised magnesium spheres: an alternative thermal storage medium for concentrated solar power applications. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 42(47), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.09.095

Elevated temperature cycling studies were performed on two commercial gas atomised Mg spherical powders (average diameter of 26 μm and 30 μm) with magnetron sputtered catalysts (chromium, iron, vanadium and stainless steel) applied to their surfaces.... Read More about Evolution of catalyst coated atomised magnesium spheres: an alternative thermal storage medium for concentrated solar power applications.

The IMPROVE guidelines (Ischaemia Models: Procedural Refinements Of in Vivo Experiments) (2017)
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Percie du Sert, N., Alfieri, A., Allan, S. M., Carswell, H. V., Deuchar, G. A., Farr, T. D., Flecknell, P., Gallagher, L., Gibson, C. L., Haley, M. J., Macleod, M. R., McColl, B. W., McCabe, C., Morancho, A., Moon, L. D., O’Neill, M. J., Pérez de Puig, I., Planas, A., Ragan, C. I., Rosell, A., …Macrae, I. M. (in press). The IMPROVE guidelines (Ischaemia Models: Procedural Refinements Of in Vivo Experiments). Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, https://doi.org/10.1177/0271678X17709185

Most in vivo models of ischaemic stroke target the middle cerebral artery and a spectrum of stroke severities, from mild to substantial, can be achieved. This review describes opportunities to improve the in vivo modelling of ischaemic stroke and ani... Read More about The IMPROVE guidelines (Ischaemia Models: Procedural Refinements Of in Vivo Experiments).

Efficient hydrogen storage in up-scale metal hydride tanks as possible metal hydride compression agents equipped with aluminium extended surfaces (2016)
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Gkanas, E. I., Grant, D. M., Khzouz, M., Stuart, A. D., Manickam, K., & Walker, G. S. (2016). Efficient hydrogen storage in up-scale metal hydride tanks as possible metal hydride compression agents equipped with aluminium extended surfaces. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 41(25), 10795-10810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.04.035

In the current work, a three-dimensional computational study regarding coupled heat and mass transfer during both the hydrogenation and dehydrogenation process in upscale cylindrical metal hydride reactors is presented, analysed and optimized. Three... Read More about Efficient hydrogen storage in up-scale metal hydride tanks as possible metal hydride compression agents equipped with aluminium extended surfaces.

Metal hydride hydrogen compression: recent advances and future prospects (2016)
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Yartys, V. A., Lototskyy, M., Linkov, V., Grant, D., Stuart, A., Eriksen, J., Denys, R., & Bowman, R. C. (2016). Metal hydride hydrogen compression: recent advances and future prospects. Applied Physics A, 122(4), Article 415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-016-9863-7

Metal hydride (MH) thermal sorption compression is one of the more important applications of the MHs. The present paper reviews recent advances in the field based on the analysis of the fundamental principles of this technology. The performances when... Read More about Metal hydride hydrogen compression: recent advances and future prospects.

Numerical study on a two-stage metal hydride hydrogen compression system (2015)
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Gkanas, E. I., Grant, D. M., Stuart, A. D., Eastwick, C., Book, D., Nayebossadri, S., Pickering, L., & Walker, G. S. (in press). Numerical study on a two-stage metal hydride hydrogen compression system. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 645(Supp1), Article S18-S22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.03.123

A multistage Metal Hydride Hydrogen Compression (MHHC) system uses a combination of hydride materials in order to increase the total compression ratio, whilst maximizing the hydrogenation rate from the supply pressure at each stage. By solving the co... Read More about Numerical study on a two-stage metal hydride hydrogen compression system.