Rethinking Hydrogen Fueling: Insights from Delivery Modeling

Over the past century gasoline fueling has evolved from being performed by a variety of informal, diverse methods to being performed through the use of a standardized, highly automated system that exploits the fuel’s benefits and mitigates its hazards. Any effort to transition to another fuel with different properties—with both advantages and disadvantages—must make similar adjustments. This paper discusses the existing gasoline refueling infrastructure and its evolution. It then describes the hydrogen delivery scenario analysis model, an Excel-based tool that calculates the levelized cost of delivering hydrogen from a central production facility to a vehicle by the use of currently available technologies and a typical profile of vehicle use and fueling demand. The results are shown for a status quo, or gasoline-centric case, in which demand reflects the current gasoline-based system and supply responds accordingly, and a hydrogen-centric case, in which some of those patterns are altered. The paper highlights fueling requirements that are particularly problematic for hydrogen and concludes with a discussion of alternative fueling paradigms.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2139-06
• Summary URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Rethinking+Hydrogen+Fueling%3a+Insights+from+Delivery+Modeling&author=M.+Mintz&author=A.+Elgowainy&author=M.+Gardiner&publication_year=2009
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• Authors:
  • Mintz, Marianne
  • Elgowainy, Amgad
  • Gardiner, Monterey
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 46-54
• Monograph Title: Energy and Global Climate Change 2009
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2139
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Computer models; Gasoline; Hydrogen fuels; Infrastructure; Refueling; Technological innovations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fuel delivery; Hydrogen fueling stations
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01126806
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309142694
• Report/Paper Numbers: 09-3245
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 17 2009 9:56AM