Periodic Reporting for period 1 - HQE (HyQuality Europe)
Période du rapport: 2023-01-01 au 2024-06-30
HyQuality Europe aims to understand hydrogen fuel quality across Europe and enable HRS operators to provide assurance that their fuel is fulfilling the required quality standards. The project is designed to understand hydrogen fuel quality in Europe by carrying out a representative mass market investigation of European HRS hydrogen quality, collecting 300 spot samples of both light-duty (700 bar, 60 g/s flow rate) from at least 100 HRS in at least 13 European countries. These samples will be analysed by the leading hydrogen analysis laboratories in Europe, and the results will be published in an open-source database. The results will provide the data to clarify the Occurrence Class of different European HRS impurities, from which HRS operators will be able to form a cost-effective risk assessment quality assurance plan instead of taking an expensive prescriptive approach. By facilitating HRS operators to provide low cost quality assurance the project will lower the price of hydrogen at the nozzle and subsequently increase consumer confidence, increase the incentive for fleet operators to switch to hydrogen vehicles, and enable the widespread deployment of hydrogen vehicles and refuelling infrastructure.
The project will also advance upon state-of-the-art hydrogen quality assurance by instrumenting 3 HRS with online analysers, and develop testing capacity by laboratory proficiency testing 10 European hydrogen analysis laboratories in line with ISO standards. Finally, the occurrence of a minimum of 4 new impurities will be investigated using wide scope analytical techniques. The project will proactively seek to influence the development of ISO standards and future research on this crucial topic through the involvement of leading researchers in the field.
The project will also advance upon state-of-the-art hydrogen quality assurance by instrumenting 3 HRS with online analysers, and develop testing capacity by laboratory proficiency testing 10 European hydrogen analysis laboratories in line with ISO standards. Finally, the occurrence of a minimum of 4 new impurities will be investigated using wide scope analytical techniques. The project will proactively seek to influence the development of ISO standards and future research on this crucial topic through the involvement of leading researchers in the field.
The work with collecting information from HRS operators and performing sampling and analysis has started. The first laboratory comparison has been completed with nine laboratories taking part. All impurities listed in ISO 14687 was present in the comparison, and this is the first comparison to be conducted of this type. A hydrogen quality workshop was hosted between ISO and ASTM and hosted by NREL to disseminate some of the early results of the project. The project has a target of contributing to three standard documents. It has through contribution and development of 19880-8, 14687 and 19880-9 reached its target
A hydrogen quality database has been designed and established. It is internally available to some consortium members and will be made publicly available on the project website when populated with the minimum number of samples. The first laboratory comparison has been completed with nine laboratories taking part. All impurities listed in ISO 14687 was present in the comparison, and this is the first comparison to be conducted of this type. The results have already shown great impact with dissemination to SDO entities like ASTM, CEN and ISO