Hydrogen Infrastructure Challenges and Solutions

Autor: Everett B. Anderson, Larry Moulthrop, Katherine E. Ayers
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: ECS Transactions. 41:75-83
ISSN: 1938-6737
1938-5862
DOI: 10.1149/1.4729183
Popis: One of the challenges associated with transitioning a transportation economy to any alternative fuel is bringing online fuel production, storage, transportation and endcustomer delivery infrastructure. There are challenges associated with planning a fuel delivery strategy, and implementing the transition at a pace and in the locations relevant to the parallel effort of bringing the related transportation vehicles into the market. In the case of hydrogen as a transportation fuel, the network of fueling stations may include a combination of centralized and decentralized fuel production. The continuum of centralized to de-centralized production includes the highly centralized massive hydrocarbon fuel processing plants that may number in the tens to hundreds, to neighborhood fueling stations that may number in the tens to hundreds of thousands, to the ultimate de-centralized solution of home fueling stations that may number in the millions. Similarly, in many backup power scenarios, fuel availability is a key concern for fuel cell solutions, particularly shortly after an outage.
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