how to store and transport hydrogen?

Answer 1

Hi Pandora,
I work offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.. we use hy to keep our gas detectors working and the chromatograph also... We use to have it in bottles.. but one time on another drilling rig, a company did that and the flame went out of the gas detector.. loading up the unit with hydrogen,, then it blew up... leaving only the bottom of the floor...

Since then, we have gone to a hydrogen generator, that makes enough gas by using water and emulsion .. and has a fail safe installed incase of a leak...
Hope this helps,,,,,

good luck

Answer 2

Lets start at the bottom.

A) Fuel Cell, hydrogen is not combusted to create a blast wave but combusted to create electricity.
B) Electric cars are out of date, we are using AIR cars now.
C) Ethonal burns cleaner and provides a better energy/L ratio.
D) Hydrogen is used in fusion.
E) Fusion is potentially more dangerious then fission (You have PLASMA for crying out load, you can flood a reactor but how fast can you cool down PLASMA?)


A) Hydrogen powered cars is a joke, a scientific what if that got leaked to the press. Not only would you need a much larger gas tank (think CAR SIZE large) to go anywhere, but storing it long term is an issue. Hydrogen is the smallest element and can fit through the gaps of larger elements.

B) It costs more to make hydrogen then you get out of it. And your electrolysis would be less then pure hydrogen (less effective fuel ratio)


Finally the hindenburg blew up because it was painted with rocket fuel.

Answer 3

# High-pressure tanks: Hydrogen gas can be compressed and stored in storage tanks at high pressure. These tanks must be strong, durable, light-weight, and compact, as well as cost competitive.
# Liquid hydrogen: Hydrogen can be stored as a liquid. In this form, more hydrogen can be stored per volume, but it must be kept at cold temperatures (about -253°C).
# Materials-based storage of hydrogen: Hydrogen can be stored within solid materials, such as powders, or liquids.
Existing Transport and Storage Methods

Hydrogen is currently stored in tanks as a compressed gas or cryogenic liquid. The tanks can be transported by truck or the compressed gas can be sent across distances of less than 50 miles by pipeline.

Answer 4

Ah, there's the rub.
As a liquid it is frickin' cold ... dangerously so.
As a compressed gas, it is effectively a high-pressure bomb. Whee!
Sure, it is about as environmentally friendly as you can get (burn it and you get water as your waste product), but it is difficult to handle, and energy-intensive to produce.
Hydrogen is no more than another system for internal combustion. Isn't it about time we gave up that Flintstone technology and tried something better?
Can you say "magnetism"?
That's what drives electric cars. For a lot less energy than we are spending trying to squeeze the last of the dinosaur poo out of the ground, we could run powerlines that cars and trucks could draw off of on long distance travel, and around town, batteries are just fine even in their current rather primitive state.
And electricity can be made very clean ... geothermal (though Gerald Ford was never able to say the word correctly), hydro-electric, solar, wind, tidal ... even nuclear (Dubya's "nuke-you-lar") energy, if it were improved (fusion is clean, where fission is not).
Screw hydrogen. Screw biodiesel (yrch does that stuff smell!). Screw ethanol. Let's ditch the stinkpots and go to a 21st century energy source. Leave the IC engines to NASCAR and the rest of the plumber's crack crowd.
Cheers, and I apologize for the rant. It's just frustrating to see a truth that seems so elusive to the supposed "brain trust" governing the transportation industry.

Answer 5

In the same ways we store and transport propane. Hydrogen gets a lot of bad press, but it is no more dangerous than propane. The big problem is that the big oil companies are threatened by it because it is the most abundant element in the universe, it can be used instead of fossil fuels, and we can make it in our own backyards with some simple hardware, sunlight and rain water.

Answer 6

put it in a long metal cyclinder under pressure and then transport any way you want. Thats how they do it currently.