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nation, with the most FCEVs on the road of any state and plans to open 35 new retail hydrogen stations by the end of 2016. Sandia and NREL’s work on
H2FIRST and in enabling up-to-date codes and standards for the design, construction and operation of hydro- gen refueling stations is helping drive that momentum.
Serial Testing The current practice of commis-
sioning hydrogen refueling stations is slow because each automotive manufacturer performs its own vali- dation tests to measure the perform- ance of hydrogen dispensers with re- spect to fueling protocol standards. Each test takes one to two weeks, so commissioning can take months. HyStEP acts as a surrogate for
vehicles, eliminating the need for each automotive manufacturer to test separately. The system is equipped with modular tanks and all of the instrumentation that automo- tive manufacturers would use in per- forming their own tests. “HyStEP addresses the two pri-
mary concerns of automotive manu- facturers: keeping their testing data proprietary and ensuring the per- formance of the hydrogen dispenser,” said Sandia mechanical engineer Ter- ry Johnson, project lead for HyStEP. Since automotive manufactur-
ers must trust the device’s ability to provide the same results they’d achieve with their own test vehicles, manufacturers needed to be involved from the start. In addition to Sandia and NREL, the project team included Air Liquide, Boyd Hydrogen, the Cal- ifornia Air Resources Board and Toy- ota Motor Corp. HyStEP initially will be used to
accelerate commissioning of refueling stations in California. Eventually it could be used in other states as they develop hydrogen refueling networks.
Essential for Infrastructure HyStEP recently underwent
validation testing at NREL’s Energy Systems Integration Facility in Gold- en, Colorado, and is now undergoing pre-deployment testing at refueling stations at California State Universi- ty Los Angeles and the South Coast Air Quality Management District headquarters. Early in 2016, the Air Re-
sources Board in collaboration with other state agencies will begin using HyStEP to support the commission- ing of new stations. Additional auto- motive manufacturers, including Daimler AG, BMW and Honda, are contributing to that effort. “H2FIRST was conceived to
help the deployment of hydrogen fu- eling infrastructure,” said Chris Ain- scough, lead NREL engineer on the project. “HyStEP is an example of DOE and the national laboratories partnering with states to achieve this goal of accelerating clean energy technologies.” HyStEP will help California
meet its ambitious goal of commis- sioning up to 35 new refueling sta- tions by the end of 2016, which trans- lates to one new station every one to two weeks. The target is a hydrogen-refuel-
ing network of more than 50 retail stations in this timeframe, primarily in the Los Angeles metro area, Or- ange County and the Bay Area. “This test device will help speed
up and streamline how we validate retail stations to meet customer de- mands for high performance fueling. This is essential to a successful mar- ket, as fuel cell vehicles are already being shipped to California and we expect many new customers using hydrogen stations in 2016,” said Catherine Dunwoody, chief of the fu- el cell program at the California Air Resources Board. Sandia and NREL will use the data from the validation tests to fur-
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