The development of the first Russian hydrogen refueling stations, being carried out in St. Petersburg at the A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has reached 50% readiness, Vadim Popkov, head of the institute's Laboratory of Materials and Processes of Hydrogen Energy and recipient of the Russian President's Prize, said at a TASS press conference.
The stations will be created in two formats. The refueling complex may be stationary, for permanent placement at one site, or mobile — in the form of a container for rapid deployment at the required location.
The most important technological feature of the development will be local production of hydrogen fuel. It will be generated directly on site, at the station itself, which eliminates the need for complex logistics to deliver finished fuel and increases the autonomy of such refueling stations.
In Russia, because of the large distances between populated areas, it is inefficient to rely on large plants that in theory could produce hydrogen and then have it delivered from there to the required points. <…> The task here was to create a unit in which hydrogen is obtained from natural gas directly on site and supplied to the consumer.
The work is complicated by the absence in Russia of the necessary parts for the production of hydrogen refueling stations — import-substituted components are being developed from scratch.
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