Taiyo Nippon Sanso (TNS) has recently developed a mobile hydrogen station to supply fuel cell vehicles with hydrogen gas.
This is the first mobile hydrogen station in Japan to be able to supply hydrogen compressed to 70MPa.
Until today the maximum filling pressure for fuel cell vehicles has been 35MPa, and the distance a vehicle can travel on one fill is short compared with the distance a gasoline-fuelled vehicle can travel on one tank of gas.
TNS said: “In order to extend the distance a fuel cell vehicle can travel without changing the capacity of the fuel tank, it became necessary to fill the fuel cell car with hydrogen gas at a higher pressure. In Japan, under a New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) project, equipment that could be used at 70MPa and above is therefore being developed. Development work is also being done in other parts of the world especially North America and Europe.
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