Environanotechnology

CHAPTER 7

Hydrogen Storage on CarbonAdsorbents: A Review

Tengyan Zhang*,**, L. T. Fan**, Walter P. Walawender**, Maohong Fan***, Alan E. Bland*, Tianming Zuo* and Donald W. Collins*

* Western Research Institute, Laramie, Wyoming, USA

** Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

*** Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Fundamentals of Adsorption

2.1. Volumetric and Gravimetric Densities

2.2. Physisorption

2.3. Chemisorption

3. Carbon Adsorbents

3.1. Activated Carbons

3.2. Carbon Nanofibers

3.3. Single-Walled Carbon ...