Greening the transport sector is crucial for the achievement of the ambitious decarbonisation goals set by the Conference of the Parties (COP21) Paris agreement to keep global warming "well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius". Battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles will play a key role in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the road mobility. Nonetheless, those technologies still need to face some technological challenges. Hence, hydrogen enriched natural gas (HCNG) can play an important role as bridging technology. This study envisages the upgrade of an existing compressed natural gas (CNG) refuelling station (RS) in HCNG-RS. Particularly, an analysis regarding the impact of different hydrogen volumetric fractions in the blend on the total CAPEX of the HCNG refuelling station is carried out, by evaluating the HCNG fill-up demands for a proper refuelling station sizing. The proposed HCNG refuelling station layout foresee the on-site hydrogen production by means of an electrolyser fed by PV energy. Each component of the station has been adequately sized based on the resulting peak HCNG refuelling demand. The highest CAPEX value is recorded for the 30%vol. HCNG, amounting up to 3.52 M€.

Hydrogen volumetric fraction effects on HCNG refuelling station CAPEX / Sgaramella, Antonio; Ciancio, Alessandro; Mojtahed, Ali. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - 2648:1(2024), pp. 1-12. [10.1088/1742-6596/2648/1/012064]

Hydrogen volumetric fraction effects on HCNG refuelling station CAPEX

Antonio Sgaramella
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Alessandro Ciancio;Ali Mojtahed
2024

Abstract

Greening the transport sector is crucial for the achievement of the ambitious decarbonisation goals set by the Conference of the Parties (COP21) Paris agreement to keep global warming "well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius". Battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles will play a key role in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the road mobility. Nonetheless, those technologies still need to face some technological challenges. Hence, hydrogen enriched natural gas (HCNG) can play an important role as bridging technology. This study envisages the upgrade of an existing compressed natural gas (CNG) refuelling station (RS) in HCNG-RS. Particularly, an analysis regarding the impact of different hydrogen volumetric fractions in the blend on the total CAPEX of the HCNG refuelling station is carried out, by evaluating the HCNG fill-up demands for a proper refuelling station sizing. The proposed HCNG refuelling station layout foresee the on-site hydrogen production by means of an electrolyser fed by PV energy. Each component of the station has been adequately sized based on the resulting peak HCNG refuelling demand. The highest CAPEX value is recorded for the 30%vol. HCNG, amounting up to 3.52 M€.
2024
power to gas; HCNG; hydrogen blending; refuelling station; refuelling demand; driving range
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Hydrogen volumetric fraction effects on HCNG refuelling station CAPEX / Sgaramella, Antonio; Ciancio, Alessandro; Mojtahed, Ali. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - 2648:1(2024), pp. 1-12. [10.1088/1742-6596/2648/1/012064]
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