Ethylene glycol as an efficient and reversible liquid-organic hydrogen carrier

You Quan Zou; Niklas von Wolff; Aviel Anaby; Yinjun Xie; David Milstein

doi:10.1038/s41929-019-0265-z

Ethylene glycol as an efficient and reversible liquid-organic hydrogen carrier

You Quan Zou, Niklas von Wolff, Aviel Anaby, Yinjun Xie, David Milstein

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Abstract

Hydrogen has long been regarded as an ideal alternative clean energy vector to overcome the drawbacks of fossil technology. However, the direct utilization of hydrogen is a challenge because of the low volumetric energy density of hydrogen gas and potential safety issues. Here we report an efficient and reversible liquid to liquid-organic hydrogen carrier system based on inexpensive, readily available and renewable ethylene glycol. This hydrogen storage system enables the efficient and reversible loading and discharge of hydrogen using a ruthenium pincer complex, with a theoretical hydrogen storage capacity of 6.5 wt%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	415-422
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nature Catalysis
Volume	2
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-019-0265-z
State	Published - 1 May 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Bioengineering
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Process Chemistry and Technology

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