Deakin researchers have described a novel mechanochemical process that can store gases safely in powders, using very little energy, in a repeatable process.......... Posted on 07/20/2022 1:17:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
Deakin researchers have described a novel mechanochemical process that can store gases safely in powders, using very little energy, in a repeatable process..........
Australian scientists say they've made a "eureka moment" breakthrough in gas separation and storage that could radically reduce energy use in the petrochemical industry, while making hydrogen much easier and safer to store and transport in a powder.
Nanotechnology researchers, based at Deakin University's Institute for Frontier Materials, claim to have found a super-efficient way to mechanochemically trap and hold gases in powders, with potentially enormous and wide-ranging industrial implications.
Mechanochemistry is a relatively recently coined term, referring to chemical reactions that are triggered by mechanical forces as opposed to heat, light, or electric potential differences. In this case, the mechanical force is supplied by ball milling – a low-energy grinding process in which a cylinder containing steel balls is rotated such that the balls roll up the side, then drop back down again, crushing and rolling over the material inside.
The team has demonstrated that grinding certain amounts of certain powders with precise pressure levels of certain gases can trigger a mechanochemical reaction that absorbs the gas into the powder and stores it there, giving you what's essentially a solid-state storage medium that can hold the gases safely at room temperature until they're needed. The gases can be released as required, by heating the powder up to a certain point.
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You can pack a bunch of Hydrogen into a glass of water. The problem is that it has already spent it’s chemical energy bonding with Oxygen.
What if you only have brass ones?
“So in theory this would solve the problem of storing and transporting hydrogen for vehicles and what not. Correct?”
depends upon the weight and volume of powder to store a gas-tank’s worth of hydrogen, metrics that have been studiously omitted regarding this “breakthrough” technology ...
I know ... everything is “add water”. It’s just a fun thought as you’re having to schlep a pack full of water bottles/bags on a very hot day with no springs or water sources for miles.
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You put this powder up your nose you will literally do BLOW!
I will guess that one liter of this stuff will get you less than one liter of GAS
Isn’t that just a fancy name for Cocaine?
Kind of like Dehydrated Water.
Just carry a cylinder with some boron nitride and a few steel balls with you - no, wait, you’d need two cylinders; one for the hydrogen and one for the oxygen.
This may be a breakthrough for energy storage and transportation, but what is the source of the energy required to power the gas separation process? And how much energy does this whole process require compared to the energy stored in the powdered hydrogen?
I used to pack 3 gallons for my bird dogs chasing Chukars up the sides of basalt hills in Eastern Washington in early fall when it was still fairly warm out. I never drank a drop, because as thirsty as I was, the thirst of those 2 dogs going up and down the hillside was tremendous. I’m talking 30-yard wind sprints in front of me as I climbed
The team has demonstrated that grinding certain amounts of certain powders with precise pressure levels of certain gases can trigger a mechanochemical reaction that absorbs the gas into the powder and stores it there, giving you what’s essentially a solid-state storage medium that can hold the gases safely at room temperature until they’re needed. The gases can be released as required, by heating the powder up to a certain point.
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Certainly are a lot of certains in that paragraph.
Powdered hydrogen.
Sounds dangerous.
Your question does not make the headline a lie.
I’m tired, just reading what you wrote!
Don’t let humper biden near that pile of white powder.
The oil industry uses hydrogen gas at thousands of psi to take the sulfur out of fuels and to hydrocrack long chains into shorter chains if hydrocarbons this is essential to creating the precise C6 to C9 chains, bent chains and ring hydrocarbons we refer to as gasoline. Without massive amounts of hydrogen measured in the millions of lbs per year oil.refineries cease to exist. They are just giant hydrocracking, hydro isomerization, and hydro desulfurization planrs. Oil refineries are the largest user of hydrogen gas in the planet. They need it by the tonne and currently all of that is high pressure gas that leaks through stainless steel and turns it brittle in short order. Refineries have fires and blow up fairly often due to hydrogen leaks. So if they came up with a way to move hydrogen from point A to point B without thousands of psi and release it at will at the point of need it is a substantial breakthrough the oil industry will be all over this like a virgin on prom night.
Certainly are....
Certainly, because they do not want to make the certain special ingredients certain to competitors, because they are certain to make a boatload of money from certain companies or certain people if this pans out. For certain.
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