Assessing the Performance of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles Using Synthetic Hydrogen Fuel

Autor: Thomas Bacquart, Ward Storms, Niamh Moore, James Olden, Abigail Siân Olivia Morris, Mathew Hookham, Arul Murugan, Vincent Mattelaer
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Energies, Vol 17, Iss 7, p 1510 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en17071510
Popis: The deployment of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) is critical to achieve zero emissions. A key parameter influencing FCEV performance and durability is hydrogen fuel quality. The real impact of contaminants on FCEV performance is not well understood and requires reliable measurements from real-life events (e.g., hydrogen fuel in poor-performing FCEVs) and controlled studies on the impact of synthetic hydrogen fuel on FCEV performance. This paper presents a novel methodology to flow traceable hydrogen synthetic fuel directly into the FCEV tank. Four different synthetic fuels containing N2 (90–200 µmol/mol), CO (0.14–5 µmol/mol), and H2S (4–11 nmol/mol) were supplied to an FCEV and subsequently sampled and analyzed. The synthetic fuels containing known contaminants powered the FCEV and provided real-life performance testing of the fuel cell system. The results showed, for the first time, that synthetic hydrogen fuel can be used in FCEVs without the requirement of a large infrastructure. In addition, this study carried out a traceable H2 contamination impact study with an FCEV. The impact of CO and H2S at ISO 14687:2019 threshold levels on FCEV performance showed that small exceedances of the threshold levels had a significant impact, even for short exposures. The methodology proposed can be deployed to evaluate the composition of any hydrogen fuel.
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