Daimler-benz Ag

Robert Wagner

Otto Bernauer

A pressure-tight vessel for the storage of hydrogen in a metal matrix body and in which a matrix body is arranged in a tube preferably made of aluminum, the outside diameter of the matrix body before activation is less than the inside diameter of the vessel, and in which discs are provided filling the tube cross-section, which discs rest against the end faces of the matrix body and are displaceable axially outwards against resistance within the tube, as a result of which it becomes possible for the matrix body to expand in the axial direction. For a faster absorption and emission of hydrogen, the matrix body is preferably provided with a central extraction tube which is guided through the discs. Any deformation of the vessel as a result of changes in volume of the matrix body is avoided by this construction.

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Fellbach, Germany

Robert Wagner