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2008.109

Performance of air cooled hydrogen storage device with external fins

Mohan

Maiya

M. Prakash

Murthy

S. Srinivasa

ssmurthy@iitm.ac.in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600 036, India.

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A parametric study of an air-cooled annular cylindrical hydrogen storage device with external fins highlighting the influence of different geometric and operational parameters is reported in this paper. The simulation of the storage device is carried out with LaNi5 as the hydriding alloy.

Hydrogen Storage Metal hydride Heat and mass transfer Simulation LaNi5

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