UDC 621.577

L. L. Vasiliev, L. E. Kanonchik, and V. A. Babenko*

THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF THE ADSORPTION-BASED VESSELFOR HYDROGENOUS GAS STORAGE

Thermal management is the design bottleneck in creation of rational gas storage sorption systems. 
Inefficient heat transfer in a sorption bed is connected with a relatively low thermal conductivity 
(0.1-0.5 W/(m•K)) and an appreciable sorption heat of activated gas storage materials. This work 
is devoted to the development and research of a thermally regulated onboard system of hydrogenous gas 
(methane and hydrogen) storage with the use of novel carbon sorbents. The hydrogenous gas storage system 
based on combined gas adsorption and compression at moderate pressures (3-6 MPa) and low temperatures 
(from the temperature of liquid nitrogen about 77 K to a temperature of 273 K) is suggested.

Keywords: hydrogenous gas, storage vessel, heat pipe, sorbent, carbon fiber, metal hydride, numerical modeling.


A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str.,       
Minsk, 220072, Belarus; email: leonard.l.vasiliev@gmail.com. Original article submitted November 10, 2011.

*Deceased