Review of transportation hydrogen infrastructure performance and reliability

Journal Article · Sat Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.03.027· OSTI ID:1506613

Kurtz, Jennifer M ^[1]; Sprik, Samuel ^[2]; Bradley, Thomas H. ^[3]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
3. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)

Hydrogen infrastructure for fueling vehicles has progressed in the last decade from stations with restricted access and limited operating hours to customer-friendly retail stations open to the public. There are now 121 retail hydrogen stations around the world. In California, the number of public retail hydrogen stations has increased from zero to more than 30 in less than two years, and the annual amount of hydrogen dispensed by retail stations has grown from 27,400 kg in 2015 to nearly 105,000 kg in 2016 and more than 440,000 kg in 2017 - an increase of about four times year over year. For more than a decade, government, industry, and academia have studied many aspects of hydrogen infrastructure, from renewable hydrogen production to retail hydrogen station performance. This paper reviews the engineering and deployment of modern hydrogen infrastructure, including the costs, benefits, and operational considerations (including safety, reliability, availability), as well as challenges to the scale-up of hydrogen infrastructure. The results identify hydrogen station reliability as a key factor in the expense of operating hydrogen systems, placing it in the context of the larger reliability engineering field.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Fuel Cell Technologies Program (EE-3F)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1506613
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1636529
• Report Number(s): NREL/JA--5400-70385
• Journal Information: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal Name: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Journal Issue: 23 Vol. 44; ISSN 0360-3199
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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