EVermont Renewable Hydrogen Production and Transportation Fueling System

Technical Report · Sun Mar 30 04:00:00 EDT 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/926267· OSTI ID:926267

Garabedian, Harold T. ^[1]; Wight, Gregory; Dreier, Ken; Borland, Nicholas

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1. VT Agency of Natural Resources/EVermont

A great deal of research funding is being devoted to the use of hydrogen for transportation fuel, particularly in the development of fuel cell vehicles. When this research bears fruit in the form of consumer-ready vehicles, will the fueling infrastructure be ready? Will the required fueling systems work in cold climates as well as they do in warm areas? Will we be sure that production of hydrogen as the energy carrier of choice for our transit system is the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly option? Will consumers understand this fuel and how to handle it? Those are questions addressed by the EVermont Wind to Wheels Hydrogen Project: Sustainable Transportation. The hydrogen fueling infrastructure consists of three primary subcomponents: a hydrogen generator (electrolyzer), a compression and storage system, and a dispenser. The generated fuel is then used to provide transportation as a motor fuel. EVermont Inc., started in 1993 by then governor Howard Dean, is a public-private partnership of entities interested in documenting and advancing the performance of advanced technology vehicles that are sustainable and less burdensome on the environment, especially in areas of cold climates, hilly terrain and with rural settlement patterns. EVermont has developed a demonstration wind powered hydrogen fuel producing filling system that uses electrolysis, compression to 5000 psi and a hydrogen burning vehicle that functions reliably in cold climates. And that fuel is then used to meet transportation needs in a hybrid electric vehicle whose internal combustion engine has been converted to operate on hydrogen Sponsored by the DOE EERE Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies (HFC&IT) Program, the purpose of the project is to test the viability of sustainably produced hydrogen for use as a transportation fuel in a cold climate with hilly terrain and rural settlement patterns. Specifically, the project addresses the challenge of building a renewable transportation energy capable system. The prime energy for this project comes from an agreement with a wind turbine operator.

• Research Organization: EVermont, Inc. Waterbury, VT
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE)
• DOE Contract Number: FC36-04GO14237
• OSTI ID: 926267
• Report Number(s): DOE/GO/14237-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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08 HYDROGEN
CLIMATES
COMPRESSION
ELECTROLYSIS
FUEL CELLS
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN BURNING
HYDROGEN FUELS
HYDROGEN GENERATORS
HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
Hydrogen
Sustainability
Internal Combustion Engines
Electrolysis
Wind Energy
Demonstration Project
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
MOTORS
PERFORMANCE
PRODUCTION
STORAGE
VIABILITY
WHEELS
WIND TURBINES