The development of the first Russian hydrogen fueling stations, underway in St. Petersburg at the Ioffe Institute, has reached 50% readiness, according to Vadim Popkov, head of the laboratory of materials and processes for hydrogen energy at the institute and laureate of the Russian Presidential Prize, at a TASS press conference.
The stations will be created in two formats. The fueling complex can be stationary, for permanent placement on one site, or mobile — in the form of a container for rapid deployment in the desired location.
The most important technological feature of the development will be the local production of hydrogen fuel. It will be generated directly on site, at the station itself, which eliminates the need for complex logistics for delivering готового fuel and increases the autonomy of such fueling stations.
In Russia, due to the large distance between settlements, it is inefficient to rely on large plants that could theoretically produce hydrogen and then deliver it to the required points. <…> The task here was to create an installation that produces hydrogen from natural gas right on site and ships it to the consumer.
The work is complicated by the lack of necessary parts for the production of hydrogen fueling stations in Russia — import-substituted components are being developed from scratch.
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