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Using hydrogen as a transportation fuel has been attracting considerable interest due to zero carbon emissions from vehicles. Storing hydrogen compactly, safely and affordably remains a major scientific and technological challenge in on-board applications. Over the past decade, significant efforts have been made in developing solid-state hydrogen storage techniques. Among the chemical storage materials, ammonia borane is one most promising candidate because it has a high hydrogen density of 19.6 wt% and it is a non-flammable and non-explosive crystalline compound at ambient conditions. Hydrogen can be extracted from ammonia borane via thermolysis, hydrolysis, hydrothermolysis, and methanolysis. This review covers various approaches and prospects of facilitating thermolysis, along with a brief discussion of the nature of ammonia borane and the regeneration of spent fuel.
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Jae W. Lee is currently a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department of the City College of New York (CCNY), USA. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University and received Ph.D. in Designing Reactive Separation Systems from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. From 2000 to 2001, he was an Alexander Humboldt Research Fellow in Aachen Technical University in Germany. He joined the City College of New York in 2001. His area of research interests includes CO2 capture and conversion, H2 storage, energy conversion, natural gas storage/recovery in hydrates, prevention of hydrates for flow assurance, ab initio modeling of hydrate systems, and green engineering via reactive separation. He has delivered numerous invited/keynote lectures in academia and professional societies.
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Zhang, J., Lee, J.W. Progress and prospects in thermolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane for mobile applications. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 29, 421–431 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-012-0032-1
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