Title: DESARROLLO DE HERRAMIENTAS SOSTENIBLES PARA EL ALMACENAMIENTO DE HIDRÓGENO EN FORMA DE LÍQUIDOS ORGÁNICOS (DELHYST)
Acronym of the project: DELHYST
Funding entity: MCTI - MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA
Modality: AJUDES A «PROJECTES DE GENERACIÓ DE CONEIXEMENT»
Entity code: PID2024-161125OB-I00
UJI accounting code: 25I411
Principal researchers: 
  1. Jose Mata
Dates: 2025-09-01 to 2028-08-31
Total amount: 156.250,00€
Involved researchers: 
  1. David Ruiz
  2. Judith Medina
  3. Laura Ibáñez Ibáñez
Summary/Abstract: 
The production and storage of sustainable energy is a challenge to considerer in the next decades as it has been stablished in the objectives or the ecologic transition plan of the European Union. The increasing energy demand and climate change support renewables as potential candidates in the production of sustainable energy. However, one of the major limitations of renewables is the intermittent character limited or dependent of climate conditions. The problem is a complete disconnection between energy production and demand. Consequently, the storage of energy surpluses from renewables becomes a necessity. To tackle this problem, in this project entitled “Developing sustainable tools for hydrogen storage in the liquid form using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (DELHYST)”, we propose an efficient way of energy storage based on using green hydrogen as an energy vector. Hydrogen is an excellent energy vector due to its high energy density and zero contribution to the carbon footprint. The aim of the project is to develop efficient systems for hydrogen storage in the form of chemical bonds based on what is known as Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs). This objective is aligned with the environmental objectives of the European Union Taxonomy Regulation, with the mitigation of climate change using innovative technologies for transmission and storing renewable energies that allow the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The implementation of this energy process makes possible to decarbonize the current energy system. From a chemical view, the key point of efficient LOHCs lies in the design of suitable catalysts and processes for the conversion and reconversion of hydrogen into chemical bonds. We propose to explore nanostructured catalysts and electrocatalysts based on sustainable materials. The use of solid catalysts presents great advantages for the implementation of the technology at an industrial level due to the separation of the catalyst from the reaction medium and reuse. The modulation of the catalytic properties will be carried out by doping the materials, thus achieving highly efficient catalysts.