The first period of the HyFast project has included extensive development activities on key com-ponents of the new generation hydrogen fueling station, covering among others: a new station module design with compressor, fueling control and hydrogen cooling systems, connected to an external hydrogen storage and dispenser.
The second and last period of HyFast have included construction of a new full scale prototype of the new generation hydrogen fueling station. The prototype have undergone extensive tests to very performance and reaching of the project objectives.
On the prototype more than 551 fuelings and 2626 kg of hydrogen has successfully been dis-pensed helping to validate the functionality of the station. Also the tests have enabled a continu-ous improvement of the design with several iterations on mechanics and software.
Groundbreaking tests of the instant fueling capacity needed for traffic-rush-hours have also been conducted successfully. As the first in the world, the project prototype has achieved dispensing of 100kg of hydrogen at 70MPa in only 3 hours allocated on 18 high capacity fuelings with a com-bined driving range of 10,000 km.
In addition field-test of the new generation hydrogen fueling station product has been conducted at a customers for seven months with a total of 461 fuelings and 1237kg of hydrogen dispensed. The field tests have helped further improve the station design in particular with regards to achieve high availability and thus reliable operation.
During the course of the project parallel activities has been conducted on product maturing re-sulting in the launch of a new hydrogen fueling station product named H2Station® CAR-200. The first customers and later deliveries were also secured before end of the project. For Europe or-ders of 10 H2Station® has been achieved so far, with two units already delivered. For USA orders on H2Station® for six locations in California has been secured, among others for the international oil company Shell, in collaboration with Toyota.
Further about the finalized H2Station® product can be found here:
http://nelhydrogen.com/product/h2-station/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)