Research & Development
KomprHy – A
Compressor for Hydrogen based on Metal Hydrides
Project
KomprHy – A Compressor for Hydrogen based on Metal
Hydrides
Coordination
Project
term
01.10.2023 to 30.09.2026
Dr. Jose Bellosta von Colbe
Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH
Max-Planck Straße 1
21502 Geesthacht
Deutschland (Germany)
Phone: +494152 87 2554
jose.bellostavoncolbe@hereon.de
Project
Management Agency
This project receives funding within programme
Application-oriented non-nuclear R&D in the 7th Energy
Research Programme, funding area sector coupling and hydrogen
technology of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate
Protection, funding code 03EI3089B supervised by the project
management organisation Jülich Forschungs-zentrum Jülich GmbH
Abstract
The compression of
gaseous hydrogen is currently carried out by mechanical
devices: Diaphragm, piston and other types of mechanical
compressors are state of the art. However, they have
considerable disadvantages due to their design, which mean
that today's mechanical hydrogen compressors are complex,
noisy, high-maintenance, unreliable and expensive. The aim
of the KOMPRHY project is the development of a
low-maintenance system technology and the large-scale
testing of different metal hydrides for the compression of
hydrogen. A thermodynamically acting, multi-stage
compressor based on metal hydrides for gaseous hydrogen is
to be designed and built, which takes up the hydrogen
directly from the electrolyser or other hydrogen sources at
low pressure and temperature and releases it again at a
higher temperature of the metal hydride, this time at a
higher pressure due to the thermodynamics of the metal
hydrides. The aim is to achieve a final pressure of at
least 450 bar.
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