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NREL dedicates 700 bar hydrogen fuelling station in Colorado

The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has dedicated its 700 bar hydrogen fuelling station, the first of its kind in Colorado and in the national lab system.
NREL dedicates 700 bar hydrogen fuelling station in Colorado

The dedication event was held on National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, held on October 8th (10.08) on account of the atomic weight of hydrogen being 1.008. The event forms part of the Energy Department’s strategy of promoting the benefits of hydrogen fuel cells and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs), which can be twice as efficient as conventional fossil fuel vehicles and have the potential to significantly reduce oil consumption, thereby lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

The new fuelling station is part of NREL’s new Hydrogen Infrastructure Testing and Research Facility (HITRF) which will enable scientists to produce hydrogen through electrolysis, test fuel cell vehicle and infrastructure components and systems, and improve renewable hydrogen production methods. The HITRF will in turn support research and development projects funded by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy as well as industry, government, and university partners.

NREL opened its first hydrogen fuelling research station in 2009 at the National Wind Technology Centre, located south of Boulder, as part of the Wind-to-Hydrogen project studying renewable hydrogen production through electrolysis. The new HITRF station in Golden builds on that experience and expertise. It consists of a retail-style station in a research setting, thereby enabling demonstration of real-world hydrogen fueling and infrastructure technologies with no disruption to customer service.

HITRF is being used by the NREL to test the hydrogen station equipment performance (HyStEP) device for the Energy Department as part of the Hydrogen Fuelling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology project (H2FIRST) in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories. The device is intended to accelerate commercial hydrogen station acceptance by validating station, demonstrating that it can follow standard protocols for safe hydrogen fuelling. The data generated by the device will be shared with all car manufacturers, instead of each company having to separately validate a station's performance.

“It's a significant cost and time savings for car companies” said Keith Wipke, manager of NREL's Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies programme. “Customers can start using a new station within a week after it opens instead of six to 10 weeks as each company does its own testing. That's a major improvement.”

NREL is the US Department of Energy's primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development, operated for the Energy Department by The Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC.

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