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.

1 Hydrogen filling stations
2 Hydrogen home stations
3 Hydrogen highway
4 Notes
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Hydrogen filling stations

In 1999, Ford and Air Products opened the first hydrogen station in North America in Dearborn, MI.^[1]

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.^[2]
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 (Shell Hydrogen).
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]
Proton Energy Systems and Northern Power, both wholly owned subsidiaries of Distributed Energy Systems (Nasdaq: DESC), were contracted by EVermont to build an advanced demonstration hydrogen fueling station in Burlington, VT. The project was partially funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Program.
The Chewonki Renewable Hydrogen Project opened on August 28, 2006 in Wiscasset, Maine.

[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]

January 2007 - Australia's CSIRO has developed a hydrogen homestation based on electricity from standard rooftop solarpanels or a home wind turbine with an electrolyzer including compression and storage ready for use, the size of a filing cabinet, the expected market price would be $500 according to Sukhvinder Badwal.Extensive testing of the system will be going on for the next 2 years at RMIT University in Melbourne.