Modeling Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure to Support Passenger Vehicles
Abstract
The year 2014 marked hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) first becoming commercially available in California, where significant investments are being made to promote the adoption of alternative transportation fuels. A refueling infrastructure network that guarantees adequate coverage and expands in line with vehicle sales is required for FCEVs to be successfully adopted by private customers. In this article, we provide an overview of modelling methodologies used to project hydrogen refueling infrastructure requirements to support FCEV adoption, and we describe, in detail, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's scenario evaluation and regionalization analysis (SERA) model. As an example, we use SERA to explore two alternative scenarios of FCEV adoption: one in which FCEV deployment is limited to California and several major cities in the United States; and one in which FCEVs reach widespread adoption, becoming a major option as passenger vehicles across the entire country. Such scenarios can provide guidance and insights for efforts required to deploy the infrastructure supporting transition toward different levels of hydrogen use as a transportation fuel for passenger vehicles in the United States.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Program (EE-3F)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1438337
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5400-68652
Journal ID: ISSN 1996-1073; ENERGA
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energies
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1996-1073
- Publisher:
- MDPI AG
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; alternative fuels; hydrogen; fuel cell electric vehicles; refueling infrastructure; transformation pathways
Citation Formats
Muratori, Matteo, Bush, Brian, Hunter, Chad, and Melaina, Marc. Modeling Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure to Support Passenger Vehicles. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.3390/en11051171.
Muratori, Matteo, Bush, Brian, Hunter, Chad, & Melaina, Marc. Modeling Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure to Support Passenger Vehicles. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/en11051171
Muratori, Matteo, Bush, Brian, Hunter, Chad, and Melaina, Marc. Mon .
"Modeling Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure to Support Passenger Vehicles". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/en11051171. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1438337.
@article{osti_1438337,
title = {Modeling Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure to Support Passenger Vehicles},
author = {Muratori, Matteo and Bush, Brian and Hunter, Chad and Melaina, Marc},
abstractNote = {The year 2014 marked hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) first becoming commercially available in California, where significant investments are being made to promote the adoption of alternative transportation fuels. A refueling infrastructure network that guarantees adequate coverage and expands in line with vehicle sales is required for FCEVs to be successfully adopted by private customers. In this article, we provide an overview of modelling methodologies used to project hydrogen refueling infrastructure requirements to support FCEV adoption, and we describe, in detail, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's scenario evaluation and regionalization analysis (SERA) model. As an example, we use SERA to explore two alternative scenarios of FCEV adoption: one in which FCEV deployment is limited to California and several major cities in the United States; and one in which FCEVs reach widespread adoption, becoming a major option as passenger vehicles across the entire country. Such scenarios can provide guidance and insights for efforts required to deploy the infrastructure supporting transition toward different levels of hydrogen use as a transportation fuel for passenger vehicles in the United States.},
doi = {10.3390/en11051171},
journal = {Energies},
number = 5,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {5}
}
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