Air Products’ Business Development Manager for Hydrogen Energy has today detailed the company’s plans for a hydrogen transport network in London. Speaking at an industry event in Bristol, Emma Guthrie said that Air Products expected to add two new fuelling stations in London in the near future to create a network of five.
Air Products has already installed two central London located fuelling stations at Heathrow and in East London, but now has plans for another East London station and a second centrally located fuelling station as part of the CHIC (Clean Hydrogen In European Cities) Project, which saw the Transport for London hydrogen bus station installed in December 2010. The fifth station in the network is just north of London at the Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedford.
The event was held in Bristol, close to Air Products’ latest hydrogen transport project, a 12-seater hydrogen powered passenger ferry. The zero-emission ferry, named Hydrogenesis in a school competition, will transport commuters and tourists around Bristol harbour for six hours each day.
渡轮将在今年年底之前启动并运行，并以12kW燃料电池为动力的速度为6至10节。该轮渡是由布里斯托尔氢船（Bristol Hydrogen Boats）制造的，这是一个由7号船，布里斯托（Bristol Packet）和Auriga Energy Ltd组成的财团，并得到了布里斯托尔市议会的支持。空气产品正在提供氢气和加油站，以保持渡轮运行。
氢能系统业务发展经理艾玛·古斯里（Emma Guthrie）表示：“空气产品认为英国氢运输的短期未来是基于氢基础设施和伦敦的群集。伦敦的五个氢加油站足以使许多车队，公共汽车，汽车和其他车辆可以在首都建立真正的氢运输。”
On the Bristol ferry project, Emma added:
Air Products is providing the hydrogen and the fuelling station for this project because we believe it is exactly these kind of innovative ideas that will get the general public, industry and Government to take notice of hydrogen. If the UK is to cut emissions from transport then hydrogen has to be part of the transport mix.”
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