The US Department of Energy (DOE) grants a Shell-led consortium a contract for a large-scale hydrogen storage project.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC and energy infrastructure construction company McDermott International Ltd. will provide USD3 million each for the USD12 million project. DOE's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office will contribute USD6 million.
Other partners in the project are NASA's Kennedy Space Center, hydrogen infrastructure firm GenH2 and the University of Houston.
Under the contract, the consortium will develop a concept design for the large-scale liquid hydrogen storage tank, along with engineering and constructing a scaled-down demonstration tank that will be tested to validate the feasibility of the design.
