Hydrogen station
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A hydrogen station is a storage or filling station for hydrogen, usually located along a road or highway, or at home as part of the distributed generation resources concept.
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[edit] Hydrogen filling stations
Since the turn of the millennium, filling stations offering hydrogen have been opening worldwide. Among them:
- Some fuel stations in Germany (among them, Aral), within the Clean Energy Partnership, are offering hydrogen.
- Bus refueling stations in a small number of European cities as part of the Clean Urban Transport for Europe programme.
- Iceland began opening stations in 2003 as part of the country's initiative to implement a hydrogen economy.[1]
- Stations in California opened by the California Fuel Cell Partnership, and under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's hydrogen highway program.
- A Washington DC Shell gas station on Benning Road sells mostly gasoline but also has one hydrogen pump. President George W. Bush made news by visiting the station.
- The third hydrogen filling station in the world opened in Dearborn, Michigan in 1999, sponsored by Ford.[2]
- Japan has a number of hydrogen filling stations run by the JHFC (Japan Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Demonstration Project) to test various technologies of hydrogen generation.
- British Columbia, Canada is building a seven node hydrogen refueling station network from Victoria to Whistler timed to coincide with the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The node in Surrey was the first in the world to deliver hydrogen at 70 MPa, and is the longest operational node in the network, having been supplying hydrogen since March 2002.[3]
[edit] Hydrogen home stations
Hydrogen home stations come in different types.
- A solar powered water electrolysing hydrogen home station, is made of solar cells, power converter, water purifier, electrolyzer, piping, hydrogen purifier[1], oxygen purifier, compressor[2], pressure vessels[3] and a hydrogen outlet.[4]
- A more complete home station would combine the solar home system on the inlet with natural gas and a reformer [5] and from the storage tank to a fuel cell microchp system to produce heat and electricity for the house and the excess electricity to the grid to become part as a distributed generation resource.
- Integrated systems that convert solar energy photoelectrochemically are more efficient than splitting water. [6]
[edit] Hydrogen highway
A hydrogen highway is a chain of hydrogen-equipped filling stations and other infrastructure along a road or highway.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hydrogen-filling station opens ... in Iceland
- ^ Motavalli, Jim (2001). Breaking Gridlock: Moving Towards Transportation That Works. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, p. 145. ISBN 1-57805-039-1.
- ^ Powertech Station from British Columbia's Hydrogen Highway site, retrieved July 30, 2006
- ^ Solar Hydrogen Production by Electrolysis Home Power #39 Feb./Mar. 1994
- ^ Fuel cell on Honda worldwide homepage, retrieved August 4, 2006
- ^ Sunlight to Fuel Hydrogen Future from Wired News, retrieved July 30, 2006
[edit] See also
- Hydrogen vehicle
- Hydrogen production
- Hydrogen storage
- Hydrogen reformer
- Hydrogen piping
- Hydrogen leak testing
- Home Energy Station
- MicroCHP
- Fuel cell
- Self-sufficient homes
- Microgeneration
- Urea
- Virtual power plant
[edit] External links
- Hydrogen Refueling Stations Mapped on Platial.
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