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A -- COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR ABSORBING HYDROGEN FROM MIXED GAS STREAMS POC Douglas Rabold, Telephone 803-725-4185 E-MAIL: Click here to contact Doug Rabold via e-mail, douglas.rabold@srs.gov. This is a notice issued by Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC), management and operating contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina. The purpose of this notice is to determine interest in partnering on the development and application of the "Composite Material for Absorbing Hydrogen from Mixed Gas Streams." This partnering may be in the form of a license, a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, a joint proposal for government-sponsored funding opportunities, or other appropriate arrangements. The technology is a composite material and a method of using it to efficiently extract high quality hydrogen from mixed gas streams. The composite material consists of a metal hydride encapsulated in a low-density silica matrix. The material is designed to achieve a porosity that excludes gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, which typically poison metal hydride based systems. By using metal hydride particles 50 microns or less in size in combination with the silica matrix, the composite material can undergo many cycles of hydrogen absorption and desorption without breaking down, thereby extending its useful lifetime. The method involves cooling and heating the composite material to absorb and desorb hydrogen in a batch process. The composite material and method result in producing a stream of recovered hydrogen at a pressure of 1 atm or greater and a purity that is greater than 99 percent. Interested parties will be provided with a technical brief and instructions on applying for a license to this technology as well as information on other partnering arrangements. A typical license agreement will contain license fees and running royalties. Responses to this notice are requested by September 30, 1998. Please contact Douglas Rabold by telephone at 803-725-4185; by facsimile at 803-725-4988; by e-mail at douglas.rabold@srs.gov; or by regular mail at Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Attn: Douglas Rabold, Building 773-41A, Aiken, SC 29808. This is not a solicitation for a formal subcontract; it is a request for expressions of interest only. Posted 09/01/98 (W-SN244291). (0244)

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