Abstract: A filling station for supplying vehicles with gas containing hydrogen comprises: a storage unit comprising high pressure gas containers; a compression unit comprising compressors for increasing the pressure of gas for the storage unit; and a supply unit comprising a supply device for supplying a vehicle; a storage circuit for circulating gas from the compression unit to the storage unit; and a filling circuit for circulating gas from the storage unit to the compression unit. The storage circuit comprises a storage pipe network connecting each compressor to each container and at least one storage distributor for selectively associating the compressors and the containers. The filling circuit includes a filling pipe network connecting each container with each compressor and a filling distributor for selectively associating the containers and the compressors. The station further includes control means for controlling the storage and filling distributors.

Abstract: A tank for storing hydrogen by absorption in a hydrogen storage material, including: a chamber; a hydrogen supplier to supply hydrogen into the chamber and/or collect hydrogen in the chamber; an inner structure for storing hydrogen storage material, the inner structure including at least two cups, each cup including a base, a side wall, and a closing element forming a volume impermeable to the hydrogen storage material, at least part of each cup being permeable to hydrogen, and the inner structure including a passage provided at least between part of an outer face of the side wall of the cup and an inner face of the chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a safe hydrogen-storing tank that is easy to manufacture and enables the quick kinetic absorption of hydrogen, which reduces the variations in volume and has a low cost in terms of material and energy. The invention has the aim of providing a tank for storing hydrogen, including a hydrogen inlet (21) and a hydrogen outlet (22) in fluid communication with at least one solid body (10-11) capable of the exothermal absorption and endothermal desorption of hydrogen, wherein said at least one solid body (10-11) is made of a compacted material containing light metal hydride and a heat-conducting matrix, and wherein said at least one solid body (10-11) is in heat-transfer relation with at least one heat recovery material (42) free from salt or molten-salt compounds and capable of absorbing the heat generated by the hydrogen absorption and of releasing said absorbed heat so as to provide heat for hydrogen desorption.

Abstract: A material for storing hydrogen is prepared by a method including an extreme plastic deformation operation selected from cold-rolling, quick-forging and extrusion-bending performed on a metallic material selected from among a metal and an alloy containing said metal, or on a compound containing a metal material selected from among a metal and an alloy containing said metal and to which a hydride of said metal or a hydride of said alloy has been added. When the extreme plastic deformation operation is carried out on the metallic material, it is followed by an operation of adding, to the metal material, a hydride of said metal or a hydride of said alloy, as well as by a dispersing operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tank for storing and withdrawing hydrogen by means of a reversible hydriding/dehydriding reaction, said tank consisting of a thermally insulated chamber that includes a plurality of elements (2) for storing hydrogen in the form of hydrides, each element having at least one surface for exchange with the gaseous hydrogen and at least one heat exchange surface, characterized in that it further comprises a plurality of heat storage elements (3) for preserving and releasing the heat that is associated with the reversible hydriding/dehydriding reaction.