US Department of Energy allocates 10 million yuan for carbon fiber composite materials hydrogen storage project

To promote the development of storage technology for hydrogen fuel cells in electric vehicles, the U.S. Department of Energy provided more than seven million U.S. dollars (about 44.16 million U.S. dollars) in funding to two national laboratories, one university laboratory, and one independent research laboratory. Established a research project. These research projects mainly focus on how to reduce the cost of hydrogen-compressed storage technology and the development of new hydrogen storage materials. New storage materials will greatly increase storage capacity. Relevant officials said that research on hydrogen-compressed storage technology will shorten its commercialization journey, and the cost reduction will accelerate the feasibility and acceptance of market access.

Among them, the Northwest Pacific National Laboratory under the Ministry of Energy (Richland, Washington), received 2.1 million U.S. dollars (about 13.23 million U.S. dollars) in funding, and will be with Ford Motor Company, Lincoln Composites, Toray Carbon Fibers America, and AOC. The company cooperated to study how to reduce the cost of hydrogen compression storage systems. The project mainly improves carbon fiber composite materials, designs and produces hydrogen storage tanks, and reduces the cost of producing high-pressure hydrogen storage tanks, which is at least a third lower than the existing technology.