Projects
McPhy positions itself as the leader in mass hydrogen storage and devotes significant investment in R&D from its revenues to continuously improving its products, both in terms of active materials (magnesium and its additives) and its implementation of different storage solutions.
Member of the TENERRDIS competitiveness cluster, McPHy is involved either as a direct partner or as a sub-contractor in many projects. Other projects (notably Interreg and ANR – National Research Agency) will be introduced in 2009.
European projects
- ATLAS-H2
ATLAS-H2 is an Industry-Academia Partnership on hydrogen storage in solid materials aiming to develop and test (in the short term) and bring to the market (in the medium to longer term) integrated advanced metal hydride tanks with high added value applications especially for stationary systems and hydrogen compression.
» Project's website - NANOHy
The work in NANOHy aims at combining the latest developments in the metal hydride field with novel concepts for tailoring materials properties.
» Project's website - NESSHY
NESSHY aims at developing novel materials, storage methods and fabrication processes that provide the energy density and the charge/discharge, storage/restitution rates necessary for mobile applications with spin-offs in stationary systems. The final aim of the project is to identify the most promising solid storage solutions for such applications.
» Project's website
ANR Project (national research agency)
- Modernhy-T
Model and tool for design and evaluation of innovative hydride tanks for transport
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FUI project (single interministerial fund)
- Hy-CAN
R&D project for the development of a compact hydrogen storage, combining advantages of both pressure and metal hydrides storage methods, and its integration to a passive type fuel-cell.
» Results of the 8th call for projects
» Tenerrdis press release
Other types of projects
- Carnot Institute – Energies of the future “Hydrogen component sectors”
This project involves reversible hydrogen storage in the form of magnesium hydride, from the shaping of materials through to tank design.
» Project's website - Rhône-Alpes Energy Research Cluster "Connecting a hydrogen-fueled SOFC battery to a magnesium hydride tank"
The project objective is to develop a complete demonstrator including a large-scale magnesium hydride tank, a SOFC (1 to 5kW) fuel cell and a system for thermal energy recovery of heat generated by the SOFC fuel cell.
» Project's website