Innovating porous materials characterization for hydrogen storage applications

Flow and reactive transport in porous media plays a role in various applications needed for the establishment of hydrogen as an alternate energy carrier including fuel cells or MOFs and nano-carbons or sub-surface storage. The porous medium facilitating the hydrogen flow thereby needs to be optimized in terms of reactive surface area and transport properties, parameters, which are experimentally notoriously difficult to determine. This is as underlying phenomena (e.g. adsorption) is a molecular process that is easily altered by contamination and inhomogeneity. In this study, we propose the utilization of inverse gas chromatography (iGC) to systematically study the deviation of the porous medium from its idealized model. The project is supported by NWO Veni.