Exploring the Hydrogen Transition:

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Exploring the Hydrogen Transition

• Investigation of an Alternative Fuel

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Acknowledgement

• The Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team
• Peng Wei, Ghan Patel, Nicole Kalb
• The Heavy Duty Vehicle Team
• Dan Chituc, Jon Leisner, Fred Bruneau
• The Washington D.C. Team
• Dan Herstine, Kang-Wei Hsiao, Koji Akeno
• The Gen H Power Park Team
• Jason Leung, Joseph Schwarz, Perla Lastra, Walter
  Chen

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Introduction
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Requirements

• Hydrogen must be generated on site
• Daily refueling capacity
• 50 kg/d in 2010
• 250 kg/d in 2020
• Commercially-available components
• Maximum footprint must be less than 21,000 ft2

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Location
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Plan View
Production And Storage Area
Convenience Store
Refueling Area
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Technical Design

• Gen H Power Park - a GREEN project
• Sources of hydrogen
• Natural Gas
• Coal
• Electrolysis
• Anaerobically digested biosolids
• Inexhaustible
• Net zero carbon dioxide emissions
• Biogas ? CH4 and CO2
• Steam Reforming Process
• CH4 H2O ? 3H2 CO
• CO H2O ? H2 CO2

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Process Flow
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Economic Model

• Costs
• Phase I Capital Costs (2010) 2.6M
• Phase II Capital Costs (2015) 1.0M
• Construction and Land Costs 0.92M
• Variable Costs and Running Expenditures
• Revenue
• Convenience Store
• eMax 0.0865/kWh
• HMax 8.31/kg

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Conclusion

• 1 ½ semester project
• Started at beginning of 1st semester
• Finished during Winter Session
• Submitted to NHA end of January
• Mixed group of students
• 4 M.Eng students (3 Program Mgt.)
• 1 MBA student,
• 1 BEE PhD student
• 2 Freshmen
• Project received Honorable Mention from the NHA

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QA