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

Published:2024-03-22 Issue:7 Volume:17 Page:1510
ISSN:1996-1073
Container-title:Energies
language:en
Short-container-title:Energies

Author:

Bacquart Thomas¹^ORCID,Storms Ward²,Moore Niamh¹,Olden James²,Morris Abigail Siân Olivia¹,Hookham Mathew¹^ORCID,Murugan Arul¹^ORCID,Mattelaer Vincent²

Affiliation:

1. Atmospheric Environmental Science Department, National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington TW11 0LW, Middlesex, UK

2. R&D, Toyota Motor Europe, B-1930 Zaventem, Belgium

Abstract

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.

Funder

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and the European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) Participating States

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/7/1510/pdf

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