Patent ID: 7648540

Claim:
A system for the production, storage and dispensation of hydrogen, said system comprising: (a) at least a pair of sealed and replaceable cylinders filled with water mounted vertically on a platform, (b) rotatable and replaceable containers with outlets to store encapsulated metal hydride shells with intervening gaps, said containers fixed to the inner surfaces of said cylinders, on both the sides, by supporting rings with rollers to provide a rotatable support, (c) lids having moist separation mesh serving as passages for hydrogen flow, fixed on top of said cylinders, wherein said lids disposed as inlet means for encapsulated metal hydride shells and water before said cylinders are sealed and mounted on the platform, (d) slider base members disposed at the bottom end of said cylinders, said slider base members fixed to the inner surface of said cylinders, on both the sides, by supporting rings, (e) said slider base members act as bottoms to the containers, said slider base members having passages, said passages in flow communication with slider paths to transmit the encapsulated metal hydride shells from said containers into the cylinders, (f) a plurality of baffles disposed both inside and outside periphery of said containers, said inner baffles adapted to regulate and direct the flow of said encapsulated metal hydride shells of said containers on to said slider path through said passages of the slider base members and said outer baffles adapted to rotate said containers, (g) a pair of movable hydraulic ramming members with pistons extending plane perpendicular to said containers disposed at the bottom end of the slider path, said ramming members including disintegrating sites to receive the encapsulated metal hydride shells from the slider passages and said movable pistons disposed to disintegrate said encapsulated metal hydride shells and disperse metal hydride and broken shells into said cylinders, wherein said hydraulic ramming members connected to hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic power means, (h) motion transmitting elements mounted on said ramming members and connected to said outer baffles to provide corresponding rotatable action to said containers, and (i) outlets disposed on the lids of the cylinders to release the hydrogen thus produced in the cylinders, and (j) a control panel to control the operations of the system.