Carsharing with fuel cell vehicles: Sizing hydrogen refueling stations based on refueling behavior

Grüger, Fabian; Dylewski, Lucy; Robinius, Martin; Stolten, Detlef

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.07.014

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“…Thus, it is important that the design of refueling stations is done with a medium and long-term perspective. In addition, the deployment of refuelling stations could also be coupled to specific applications, such as hydrogen-based car sharing systems [71].…”

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The Role of Green and Blue Hydrogen in the Energy Transition—A Technological and Geopolitical Perspective

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Hydrogen is currently enjoying a renewed and widespread momentum in many national and international climate strategies. This review paper is focused on analysing the challenges and opportunities that are related to green and blue hydrogen, which are at the basis of different perspectives of a potential hydrogen society. While many governments and private companies are putting significant resources on the development of hydrogen technologies, there still remains a high number of unsolved issues, including technical challenges, economic and geopolitical implications. The hydrogen supply chain includes a large number of steps, resulting in additional energy losses, and while much focus is put on hydrogen generation costs, its transport and storage should not be neglected. A low-carbon hydrogen economy offers promising opportunities not only to fight climate change, but also to enhance energy security and develop local industries in many countries. However, to face the huge challenges of a transition towards a zero-carbon energy system, all available technologies should be allowed to contribute based on measurable indicators, which require a strong international consensus based on transparent standards and targets.

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The Role of Green and Blue Hydrogen in the Energy Transition—A Technological and Geopolitical Perspective

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“…A successful hydrogen-based transportation system needs infrastructure to deliver hydrogen from production plants to refueling stations (Grüger et al 2018). The potential hydrogen delivery methods are compressed gas pipelines, cryogenic liquid trucks, and compressed tube trailers (Yang and Ogden 2007).…”

Section: Hydrogen Transport and Deliverymentioning

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An overview of development and challenges in hydrogen powered vehicles

Hosseini

Butler

2019

International Journal of Green Energy

199

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Hydrogen has the potential to be the sustainable fuel of the future, decrease the global dependence on fossil fuel resources, and lower the pollutant emissions from the transportation industry. In this study, recent development in hydrogen-based transportation engines is reviewed to scrutinize the feasibility of using hydrogen as a major fuel of future. Using hydrogen in internal combustion engines achieves only 20-25% efficiency and low power output compared to fossil-fueled internal combustion engines. Although hydrogen-based internal combustion engines have recently received considerable interests, several practical barriers have prevented the fast development of this technology. Hence, at the current stage, using hydrogen as an additive to hydrocarbon fuel systems have been taken into consideration to produce higher performance than hydrogen-only internal combustion engines. Using the dual-fuel strategy can increase the combustion stability and thermal efficiency while decreasing the CO and unburned hydrocarbons emissions, and fuel consumption. Alternatively, hydrogen can be used in fuel cells for vehicular applications with several automotive manufacturers producing fuel cell vehicles currently. Fuel cells can achieve efficiencies of up to 60%, while the rest is lost as heat. Strategies that have been investigated to increase the efficiency, performance, and lifespan of fuel cells are capillary pumping systems, a chemisorption chiller, nanofluids and supercapacitors. All such strategies improved the fuel cells in one or more ways. Safety, hydrogen delivery, onboard storage, and the capital and operating costs of hydrogen powered vehicles are analyzed to approach to clean transportation utopia.

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“…FIGURE 1. Generic model of the hydrogen refuelling station with power-to-gas production and grid connection [25].…”

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Active Load Management of Hydrogen Refuelling Stations for Increasing the Grid Integration of Renewable Generation

Sun

Harrison

2021

IEEE Access

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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV) can help reduce carbon emissions, air pollution and dependency on fossil fuels in the transport sector. Clean hydrogen fuel can be generated by a powerto-gas process at refuelling stations equipped with water electrolysers, especially in renewable rich areas. Coupled with onsite hydrogen tanks, the fast response capability of electrolysis, could potentially turn the station demand into a flexible electricity load since the hydrogen can be stored and used when needed. This paper presents a novel real-time load management scheme that actively operates a hydrogen refuelling station to relieve thermal network constraints, handles the fluctuations from renewables, and releases network headroom for connecting renewable generation. The key components involved in the refuelling station and their operational characteristics are explicitly modelled in the analysis. The economic impact of the different operational strategies is also examined. In the case study, the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy to avoid overloading and save curtailment in the local distribution network is verified by running the real-time network simulation at 1 minute steps over a 1 hour window and 5 day window respectively. Moreover, a whole year simulation of the station operation shows that the proposed active control strategy enables wind farms in the local network to avoid 9.5 times more curtailment than under passive control strategy. The station's net cost of electricity consumption thus can be reduced by 7.5%., by making use of excess electricity that would otherwise be curtailed. A further 5% reduction on the cost would be possible if the incentive rewards for offering network constraint management services are in place.INDEX TERMS Power-to-gas, hydrogen vehicle, flexible demands, active network management, renewable energy, multi-energy integration.

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Carsharing with fuel cell vehicles: Sizing hydrogen refueling stations based on refueling behavior

Cited by 88 publications

References 33 publications

The Role of Green and Blue Hydrogen in the Energy Transition—A Technological and Geopolitical Perspective

The Role of Green and Blue Hydrogen in the Energy Transition—A Technological and Geopolitical Perspective

An overview of development and challenges in hydrogen powered vehicles

Active Load Management of Hydrogen Refuelling Stations for Increasing the Grid Integration of Renewable Generation

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