SAR_Task22_Japan_Oct.. - Hydrogen Implementing Agreement

Alane and Chemical Hydride Based Hydrogen Storage Systems (C.M. Jensen, USA);
Research, Development and Safety Assessment on Metal Hydride Tanks (S.
Tsunokake, Japan); Adiabatic hydrogen storage system using changing phase
materials (P. de Rango, France); Materials aspects in complex hydride based hydrogen
storage tanks (J. Bellosta von Colbe, Germany)
Activities during the previous six months
Meeting number nine of Task 22 was held in Copenhagen, Denmark 4-8 September 2011.
The program for the meeting is attached. A photo with the participants is shown in Fig. 1.
Dr. Torben R. Jensen, Aarhus University, prof. Fleming Besenbacher, head of the iNANO
center at Aarhus University, and other staff-members hosted the meeting in an excellent
way. The meeting was partly in The Royal Danish Academy for Science and Letters and
one day at the Carlsberg Academy (in the house where Niels Bohr lived for 31 years).
There was in total 63 participants present at meeting, and thus it is the Task 22 meeting
with most attendance so far. Table 2 below summarizes the Task 22 meetings.
Table 2. Task 22 meetings.
Location Dates No. of participants
Monterey, California, USA 28.1-1.2. 2007 51
Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands 3-7.9. 2007 58
Hotel Sacocomie, Québec, Canada 2-5.3 2008 49
Villa Mondragone, Italy 7-10.10 2008 52
Jeju Island, Korea 19-23.4 2009 50
Paris, France 11-15.10 2009 59
Death Valley, USA 11-15.4 2010 56
Fremantle, Australia 16-20.1 2011 43
Copenhagen, Denmark 4-8.9 2011 63
Prof. Ping Chen from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China and Prof. Isaac Jacob
from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel participated in the meeting. It is a hope
that they can contribute to participation from China and Israel in the IEA HIA.
Major Accomplishments
In the first morning session of the Task 22 meeting in Copenhagen the local hosts Dr.
Torben R. Jensen and Prof. Fleming Besenbacher welcomed the Experts. This was
followed by a presentation from DONG Energy, one of the major sponsors of the meeting,
a presentation about hydrogen research activities in Denmark by Torben R. Jensen and the
Task 22 introduction by the OA. Furthermore the invited observers, Isaac Jacob from
Israel and Ping Chen from China presented new research results from their activities. In
the following sessions 38 out of 48 projects were presented and discussed.
As usual the meeting was organized in sessions addressing the different types of materials
and each session was followed by a discussion led by a moderator. The sessions were: (i)
(i) Methods; (ii) Nanoporous materials and “nano-hydrides”; (iii) Mg-based, composites,
AlH 3 and chemical hydrides; (iv) Borohydrides; and (v) Engineering/Applied hydrogen
storage. Every presentation showed new unpublished results and with a significant
international collaboration in particular with other Task 22 Experts. To present new results
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