Bacquart, T; Moore, N; Mattelaer, V; Olden, J; Morris, A S O; Storms, W; Murugan, A (2022) First hydrogen fuel sampling from a fuel cell hydrogen electrical vehicle– Validation of hydrogen fuel sampling system to investigate FCEV performance. Processes, 10 (9). 1709

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Abstract

Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) are developing quickly from passenger vehicles to trucks or fork-lifts. Policymakers are supporting an ambitious strategy to deploy fuel cell electrical vehicles with infrastructure as hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) as the European Green deal for Europe. The hydrogen fuel quality according to international standard as ISO 14687 is critical to ensure the FCEV performance and that poor hydrogen quality may not cause FCEV loss of performance. However, the sampling system is only available for nozzle sampling at HRS. If a FCEV may show a lack of performance, there is currently no methodology to sample hydrogen fuel from a FCEV itself. It would support the investigation to determine if hydrogen fuel may have caused any performance loss. This article presents the first FCEV sampling system and its comparison with the hydrogen fuel sampling from the HRS nozzle (as requested by international standard ISO 14687). The results showed good agreement with the hydrogen fuel sample. The results demonstrate that the prototype developed provides representative samples from the FCEV and can be an alternative to determine hydrogen fuel quality. The prototype will require improvements and a larger sampling campaign.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	fuel cell electrical vehicles; ISO14687; gas analysis; gas sampling; hydrogen refueling station; hydrogen quality
Subjects:	Analytical Science > Gas Standards
Divisions:	Atmospheric Environmental Sciences
Identification number/DOI:	10.3390/pr10091709
Last Modified:	12 Mar 2025 15:08
URI:	https://eprintspublications.npl.co.uk/id/eprint/10140