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A Southwest Research Institute team led by Research Engineer Dr. Richard S. Fu (pictured) will conduct controlled cycling experiments to generate data needed to calibrate and validate the hydrogen storage vessel durability predictive models. Leveraging SwRI’s prior experience in hydrogen storage experiments, the team will perform long-term cycling and diagnostic testing under realistic operating conditions. Together, the modeling and experimental data will allow the team to predict the degradation of metal hydride hydrogen storage vessels over the course of hundreds to thousands of charge-discharge cycles.