Sustainable innovations Inc. and its partners, Greenway Energy and Savannah River National Laboratory, are collaborating to maximise the benefits of two cutting edge hydrogen (H2) compressor technologies by combining them into one high reliability, high efficiency hybrid compressor.
This important research and development (R&D) effort will address one of the most common problems in the H2 fuelling industry- how to cost effectively compress H2 for storage on board a vehicle.
Conventional compressor technology has proven less than optimal for H2 fuelling in early fuel cell vehicle markets like California. According to the department of Energy (DOE), the poor reliability of mechanical compressors is related to operating conditions at the H2 stations for which mechanical compressors were not designed.
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