ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND VEHICLES FUEL CELL ELECTRIC VEHICLES Carlos Sousa AGENEAL, Local Energy...

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ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND VEHICLES

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FUEL CELL ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Carlos Sousa

AGENEAL, Local Energy Management Agency

of Almada

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SUMMARY

1. Workings of a Fuel Cell

2. Production, transport and storage of Hydrogen

3. Some proposal from the manufacturers

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WORKINGS OF A FUEL CELL

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WORKINGS OF A FUEL CELL

Exhaust

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WORKINGS OF A FUEL CELL

Main characteristics

• Each cell: 0.5 – 1 V

• Intensity: 0.3 – 1 A cm2

• Power: 0.3 – 0.5 W/cm2

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WORKINGS OF A FUEL CELL

Example: 2 x 100 cells ( 40 cm x 40 cm)

2 x (100 x 0.7) x (40 x 40 x 0.375) = 2 x (70 V x 640 A) = 84 kW (114 CV)

Ballard 900

107 CV

72 kg

34 x 24 x 75 cm

Volume 61 L

1,3 kW / L

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WORKINGS OF A FUEL CELL

15 to 35% 30 to +50%

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Fuel Cell for a passengers bus,MAN

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CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE• Cost:

• 400 €/kW (7 x price of a conventional engine)

• Complete Cell: € 20 000,00 (engine € 3 000,00)

• Reliability

• Response to transient regimens

• Problems with low temperatures (below 0 ºC)

• H2 contamination

• Vehicle Adaptation

• Needs Hydrogen (production, transport and storage)!!

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PRODUCTION, TRANSPORT AND STORAGE OF H2

1. “Industrial” Production

• electrolysis of water? Natural gas? Oil refinery?

• Renewable sources

• Distribution network? (does not exist!)

• Cost, Investments

• Safety and social acceptance

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PRODUCTION, TRANSPORT AND STORAGE OF H2

2. Decentralized Production (at the filling station)

• From what? (electrolysis of water? Natural gas? Other)

• Cost of the equipment

• Safety and social acceptance

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PRODUCTION, TRANSPORT AND STORAGE OF H2

Regardless of the place of production (filling station or industrial plant)

• Filling system

• Security

• Filling time

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PRODUCTION, TRANSPORT AND STORAGE OF H2

Storage on board…

• Compressed gas @ 300 bar? (very low density)

• Liquid at –253 ºC? (high evaporation, low density)

• Solid matrix? (weight/volume ratio)

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PRODUCTION, TRANSPORT AND STORAGE OF H2

3. Onboard production with a reformer

• From natural gas, methanol, ethanol?

• Petrol?

• Problems

• System efficiency

• Cost

• Technology

• Emissions – Does not solve the “Carbon Problem”

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Necar 5 e Jeep Commander (2000; CH3OH)Necar 4 (1999)

Necar 1 (1994)

Necar 3 (1997; CH3OH)

Necar 2 (1996)

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Opel Hydrogen 1

• Liquid H2 (75 Litres; 5 kg H2)

• Stack with 200 cells (59/27/50 cm)

- 150 – 200 V; 90 kW/ 122 CV

- 68 kg

• Auxiliary Batery

• Weight: 1575 kg

• 0-100 km/h – 16 s

• Max. Speed: 140 km/h

• Range: 400 km

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DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS - CUTE

• Clean Urban Transport for Europe, CUTE

• Demonstration project to test and evaluate the operational performance of Hydrogen buses for public transport

• 10 European cities (Barcelona, Madrid, London, Hamburg, Luxemburg, Estocolmo, Amsterdam, Stutgart, Stockholm, Porto)

• 3 Daimler-Chrysler buses per city

• Different methods for Hydrogen production(Renewables - hydropower, natural gas, refinery)

• Evaluation of costs, infrastructure, life cycle,emissions, etc.

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Thank you for your attention!

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