The station was constructed and operates with support from the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and will produce, compress, store and dispense hydrogen as a fuel source for vehicles that have been converted to run on hydrogen, as well as other types of ground equipment at the airport. The Yeager facility uses coal-generated grid electricity to split water to produce pure hydrogen fuel.
About 300 gallons of water is used to produce up to 12 kilograms of hydrogen per day, enough to completely refuel three vehicles. The fuel will be used by airport operations, the 130th Air Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard, and the Charleston community. The facility at Yeager Airport is a research, development, test, and evaluation platform designed to allow new innovations in hydrogen technology to be "swapped in" and tested within the context of an operating hydrogen station.
The new hydrogen-dispensing facility is the first of three that are planned along Interstate-79 from Charleston, W.Va. to Pittsburgh, Pa. to demonstrate the viability of hydrogen as an alternative transportation fuel. Additional facilities will be constructed at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va., and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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