Imagine if every gas station sold fuel with slightly different purity, potentially damaging your car's engine. This project checks the 'cleanliness' of hydrogen at stations across Europe to see which impurities actually appear. By knowing the real risks, station owners can stop paying for expensive, unnecessary tests and only check for what actually matters.
Hydrogen refuelling station operators face high costs due to expensive, rigid fuel quality testing requirements. This increases the price of fuel and slows down the adoption of hydrogen vehicles by fleet operators.
An open-source hydrogen fuel quality database and a risk-based quality assurance plan. They also deployed online analysers at 3 stations and validated 10 laboratories.
If you are an HRS operator dealing with high operational costs for fuel testing — this project developed a risk assessment quality assurance plan that replaces expensive prescriptive testing. This allows you to lower the price of hydrogen at the nozzle and increase consumer confidence.
If you are a fleet operator dealing with uncertainty regarding fuel purity across different countries — this project created an open-source database of 300 spot samples from 100 stations. This provides the data needed to ensure vehicle longevity and safety across 13 European countries.
If you are a lab dealing with inconsistent testing standards for hydrogen impurities — this project provided proficiency testing for 10 laboratories in line with ISO standards. This ensures your testing capacity is validated and recognized across the European market.
It enables HRS operators to move from expensive prescriptive testing to a cost-effective risk assessment quality assurance plan. This reduction in operational overhead is intended to lower the price of hydrogen at the nozzle.
Yes, the project involves 100 HRS across 13 countries and has instrumented 3 HRS with online analysers to advance quality assurance in real-world settings.
The project results are published in an open-source database to facilitate widespread deployment of hydrogen infrastructure.
The project has already contributed to the development of three standard documents: ISO 19880-8, 14687, and 19880-9.
The project runs from 2023-01-01 to 2026-05-31, with early results already disseminated via workshops with ISO and ASTM.
The consortium is heavily industry-weighted with 9 industrial partners (64% ratio) and 5 research entities across 6 countries. This strong industrial presence, coordinated by SINTEF AS, ensures that the resulting quality assurance plans and databases are designed for commercial viability rather than just academic interest.
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