lsbu hydrogen power project (1)

A ground-breaking project to develop a new way of storing hydrogen in buses has been launched by academics at the School of the Built Environment and Architecture.

The LSBU project aims to deliver:

  • Improved safety with hydrogen stored at lower pressures in smaller cylinders on buses instead of the large high-pressure cylinders that are currently used.
  • More space on buses because large high-pressure cylinders are replaced by smaller cylinders.
  • Reduced power consumption because the new storage system could provide the bus with cooling power for air conditioning.

LSBU researchers will investigate using hydride to absorb, release and store hydrogen. This would remove the need for large high-pressure cylinders which is the way hydrogen is currently stored on buses.

LSBU has been awarded £60,000 of government funding from Innovate UK for the project and will work with industry experts in thermal management, Ricardo, on design and analysis in the first phase. This will be followed by the de

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