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    Hydrogen storage in porous crystalline materials: insights on the role of interaction strength from simulation and machine learning

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    Author
    Schweitzer, Benjamin
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    Gómez-Gualdrón, Diego A.
    Date issued
    2018
    Keywords
    covalent organic frameworks
    machine learning
    molecular simulation
    hydrogen storage
    adsorption
    metal organic frameworks
    
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    https://hdl.handle.net/11124/172833
    Abstract
    Hydrogen is a promising renewable fuel due to its carbon-free nature and relatively high energy content by mass. However, a major hurdle for its widespread adoption as a vehicular fuel is its low density at ambient conditions, posing a challenge for onboard storage. Toward fully realizing a cost-effective, hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has set a system-level hydrogen storage target of 30 g/L for 2020, which is expected to require storing around 60 g/L at the material-level. While considerable research has been performed on hydrogen storage materials, it is still unclear whether these storage demands can be met by physisorption-based hydrogen storage systems. To assess the viability of these targets, grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations were used to calculate 18,000+ hydrogen loadings in porous crystals featuring catecholate functionalities at different thermodynamic conditions. From the data, the effects of interaction strength on the deliverable capacity of the material were elucidated. The simulation data was also used to develop an artificial neural network (ANN) model to predict hydrogen loadings using the force field parameters, textural properties of the crystal and thermodynamic conditions as input. The model was used to explore optimal operating conditions for hydrogen storage beyond those initially simulated with GCMC. It was found that optimizing the H2-catecholate interaction strength allowed some porous crystals to achieve deliverable capacities of 60 g/L with a 100 bar/77K ↔ 5 bar/160K swing in pressure and temperature. Additionally, it was shown that other porous crystals can reach 95% of the above deliverable capacity with a storage pressure of only 20 bar as long as the H2-catecholate interaction strength is optimized.
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