Experimental and theoretical study of ametal–hydrogen reactor

An experimental and theoretical study of a metal–hydrogen reactor (LaNi5–H2) is presented. The first goal of this study is to experimentally determine the effectivethermal conductivity, the conductance between the hydride bed and the fluid around the reactor,the equilibrium pressure and the expression of the reaction kinetics, taking into account the initialcondition, the temperature and the applied hydrogen pressure temporal evolution. The secondgoal is to test the validity of the theoretical model by comparison between theoretical andexperimental results.