Solid hydrogen

[netshaman]

http://www.mcphy.com/fr/produits/stocka ... ne-solide/

Goodbye the storage problem!
It opens up perspectives ...

[moinsdewatt]

It is not strictly speaking of solid Hydrogen, but a storage of Hydrogen in the form of metallic hydride MgH2.

What is solid in there is magnesium.

McPhy just went public.

McPhy introduces hydrogen energy on the stock market

Usine Nouvelle on March 06, 2014

The CNRS spin-off from Drôme launches its IPO in Paris. A capital increase which should allow it to accelerate its development in the production and storage of hydrogen. With in mind, the development of electricity from renewable sources.

McPhy goes public. Around 2,9 million new shares have been offered for subscription since Monday March 3 and until March 18, for an effective listing on Euronext Paris on March 25. The 83-person SME based in Motte-Fanjas, in the Drôme, plans to raise around 22 million euros as part of this capital increase. The valuation of the company would then reach nearly 60 million euros.

McPhy was born in 2007 to develop an original technology, from the CNRS, for storing hydrogen in solid form. Galettes of metal hydrides absorb the light gas to release it on demand, by heating. McPhy has demonstrated its technology in subsidized demonstration projects alongside major players such as Total, Enel, GDF Suez, etc. (Pushy, Ingrid, H2BER, GRHYD projects, etc.). This activity, which benefited from 3,8 million euros in subsidies in 2013, has not yet achieved turnover. Safe and flexible to use, McPhy's storage systems still need to gain in performance and competitiveness, recognizes the company.

Diversification in electrolysers

The 3,1 million euros in turnover made by the start-up in 2013 (for a negative operating profit of - 8,3 million euros) comes from its strategic diversification in electrolysers, which transform, thanks to electricity, water to hydrogen. The ambitious PME acquired in December 2012 for 3 million euros the Italian PIEL, manufacturer of small and medium-sized electrolysers (less than 500 kW) then, in September 2013, via a partnership with the German electrician Enertrag, the manufacturing activity of large Enertrag Hy Tec electrolysers. McPhy marketed in 2013 the products resulting from the acquisition of PIEL to industrial users of hydrogen.

"Our systems make it possible to produce hydrogen at less than 5 euros per kg all inclusive while industrial hydrogen transported by truck is sold between 8 and 50 euros per kg", recently argued at L'Usine Nouvelle Pascal Mauberger, president of the McPhy board. With its wide range of electrolysers and storage systems, the market addressable by McPhy in industrial hydrogen would amount to 1 billion euros by 2020, estimates the manager.

Power to gas expected to take off

If these prospects are enough to attract investors and reassure them about the income that the company could record in the coming years, it is the use of hydrogen as an energy vector that McPhy puts forward for its IPO. A use of light gas which "will take off between 2015 and 2020 and leave the world of demonstrators for commercial applications", according to Pascal Mauberger. The manager is counting on the growing need to develop and store electricity of renewable origin to push the development of "Power to gas".

And boost sales of its electrolysers coupled with its hydrogen storage systems. The expected growth of hydrogen cars over this horizon should also push the market for hydrogen filling stations. Monday March 3, McPhy judiciously announced a partnership in hydrogen energy with the Italian Electro Power System, whose fuel cell solution targets emergency power for telecom stations and data centers.

http://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/mc ... se.N245911

[netshaman]

Yes I am au jus, I know that it is magnesium hydride.
It was just to have a title that sums it up ...

Say it does not remind you of a certain Dr. Von thing-thing III who had posted a subject in the genre 2 or 3 years ago?
Maybe it's his company?
I remember he passed for a charlatan or something like that at the time ...
Hmmmm .....

[reinoso]

Yes I am au jus, I know that it is magnesium hydride.
It was just to have a title that sums it up ...

Say it does not remind you of a certain Dr. Von thing-thing III who had posted a subject in the genre 2 or 3 years ago?
Maybe it's his company?
I remember he passed for a charlatan or something like that at the time ...
Hmmmm .....

https://www.econologie.com/forums/hydrogene- ... 73-85.html

[netshaman]

Ah I see that it has evolved since!
So, or it is finally, it looks like a detective story my word!

[Gaston]

The storage of hydrogen in metallic hydrides is not a recent discovery.
The small volume storage systems have been on sale for several years.

All this communication is especially there to support the IPO of the company McPhy ...

and a priori it has nothing to do with Dr. Karl VI von Thule

[moinsdewatt]

McPhy connects a hybrid plant to the gas network

04/03/2015

By connecting the hybrid hydrogen power station at Prenzlau (Germany), Mc Phy has just demonstrated the economic potential of power-to-gas. A specialist in hydrogen production and storage equipment, La Motte-Fanjas SME has modified and adapted this plant and is building the interface with the gas injection system in the network.
Since November 2014, Enertrag, one of the main independent producers of renewable energy in Europe, has thus transformed more than 100 MWh of surplus wind energy into hydrogen and injected them into the natural gas network. The 0,5 MWh alkaline chlorinator, which extracts hydrogen from water using surplus electricity, is the technological heart of the Prenzlau power plant. It was built by a division of Enertrag acquired by Mc Phy Energy in September 2013. "It is our application know-how supplemented by our ability to carry out complex integration projects, which will be a key factor in our success and will contribute to making hydrogen a vector of the energy system of tomorrow ”, comments Pascal Mauberger, president of Mc Phy.

http://www.ledauphine.com/economie-et-f ... eau-de-gaz

[BaudouinLabrique]

After having made my old habitat with positive energy (water, electricity and heating), I have the project to get rid of the electricity distribution network thanks to the autonomy that would provide a reversible hydrogen fuel cell.
Details of this project (Your suggestions are welcome)

Solid storage system :

We learn on the site of Mcphy that solid storage is:
" * (a) completely reversible system (storage / destocking),
* Perfectly suited to fluctuations in renewable energies (absorbs variations in hydrogen production from the electrolyser)

Questions :

1 ° the cost compared to storage in the form of 200 bar cylinders as proposed by the Solenco PowerBox system:


NB Regarding the cylinders, I calculated that I would need 62 cylinders of this type and therefore more than 5 units (as shown in the photo)

2 ° the level of losses in the conversion to solid hydrogen