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Basic physico-chemical properties of hydrogen and natural gas.

Basic physico-chemical properties of hydrogen and natural gas.

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Numerous reviews on hydrogen storage have previously been published. However, most of these reviews deal either exclusively with storage materials or the global hydrogen economy. This paper presents a review of hydrogen storage systems that are relevant for mobility applications. The ideal storage medium should allow high volumetric and gravimetric...

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... hydrogen at ambient temperature and pressure offers excellent gravimetric but poor volumetric energy densities of 120 MJ/kg (100 wt %) and 0.01 MJ/L, respectively. Some physico-chemical properties of hydrogen and natural gas are compared in Table 1. Another important performance metric is the speed of kinetics. ...

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