UK’s Teesside University is working with compatriots Northern Gas Networks (NGN) and Frazer-Nash Consultancy on a feasibility study investigating the potential of using chemical hydrides as a means of storing hydrogen.

The project, called PATCH (Production and Long Term Containment of Hydrides), is funded by energy network users and consumers through the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), an Ofgem program managed in collaboration with Innovate UK, Teesside University revealed, adding that it will utilize the funding to conduct preliminary discovery phases essential for understanding the potential outcomes, challenges and resource requirements for further development of chemical hydrides as an alternative hydrogen storage medium.