A hydrogen station is a storage or filling station for hydrogen, usually located along a road or hydrogen highway, or at home as part of the distributed generation resources concept. The stations are usually intended to power hydrogen vehicles, but can also be used to power small devices. Vehicles use hydrogen as fuel in one of several ways, including fuel cells and mixed fuels like HCNG. The hydrogen fuel dispensers dispense the fuel by the kilogram.
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Hydrogen filling stations
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Asia
- Japan
- South Korea
Europe
As of 2016, there are more than 25 stations in Europe capable of filling 4-5 cars per day.
- Denmark
- Finland
- Germany
- Iceland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
North America
- Canada
- United States
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Hydrogen highway
A hydrogen highway is a chain of hydrogen-equipped filling stations and other infrastructure along a road or highway. Italy and Germany are collaborating to build a hydrogen highway between Mantua in northern Italy and Munich in southern Germany. Italy completed building a hydrogen filling station in Mantua on 21 September 2007 (see Zero Regio).
Costs
Since the turn of the millennium, filling stations offering hydrogen have been opening worldwide. However, this does not begin to replace the existing extensive gasoline fuel station infrastructure, which in the US alone numbered 168,000 retail outlets in 2004, with revenues for 2014 of US$536 billion. According to Joseph Romm in 2004 replacing these would cost a half trillion U.S. dollars. The cost of the necessary European-wide hydrogen fuelling infrastructure could be five times lower than the cost of the charging network required for battery and plug-in hybrid vehicles. When viewed as cost per station, EV stations are cheaper than the $3 million per hydrogen station.
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, oxygen purifier, compressor, pressure vessels and a hydrogen outlet.
- A more complete home station would combine the solar home system on the inlet with natural gas and a reformer 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.
- January 2007 - Australia's [CSIRO] has developed a hydrogen homestation based on electricity from standard rooftop solar panels 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.
- Honda's Home Energy Station IV is in testing phase.
- Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies HydroFILL is a hydrogen station intended to power small devices.
- The fuel cell charger is another hydrogen station to power mobile appliances
- ITM Power Green-box is a personal hydrogen station intended for the fueling of vehicles
- The Acta EL100 home generator is another hydrogen generator that can be used to build a hydrogen station.
- Daniel Nocera is also working on a personal hydrogen station
- Nico Hotz is also working on a personal hydrogen station; bio methanol is used to improve the efficiency of the solar panels.
- The Hopewell Project an oversized pilot homestation by Michael Strizki.
- The Chewonki Renewable Hydrogen Project opened on August 28, 2006 in Wiscasset, Maine.
- The Stuart Island Energy Initiative.
- The homefueler and HyStat-A Energy Station
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