IMPLEMENTATION OF A DOUBLE-SHELL METAL HYDRIDE TANK INTO REAL BUS OPERATION AND ITS TEST RUNS

Recently, the role of hydrogen technology has become more important in decarbonizing society and achieving carbon neutrality goals. The most important sector where it is possible to implement hydrogen technologies to achieve carbon neutrality is the automotive industry. For hydrogen technologies in the field of transport to be able to compete with conventional motor vehicles, research in several areas is necessary. One of the most important areas is the issue of hydrogen storage. The article in question discusses the issue of low-pressure hydrogen storage by means of metal hydride storage tanks for mobile applications and solves the design of a double-shell metal hydride storage tank using an active and passive cooling module and the subsequent implementation of the metal hydride storage tank in the real operation of a bus on which test runs were carried out and evaluated. From the test runs, it was found that research and development in the field of initial preheating of the metal hydride storage tanks in the bus is necessary for the efficient removal of hydrogen into the fuel cell.