Development Of A Centrifugal Hydrogen Pipeline Gas Compressor

Di Bella, Francis A.¹ 

[1]Concepts NREC, White River Junction, VY (United States)

关键词: pipeline compressor;    centrifugal compressor;    hydrogen compressor;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1227195
RP-ID  :  TM--1785
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1227195

学科分类：再生能源与代替技术

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Concepts NREC (CN) has completed a Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored project to analyze, design, and fabricate a pipeline capacity hydrogen compressor. The pipeline compressor is a critical component in the DOE strategy to provide sufficient quantities of hydrogen to support the expected shift in transportation fuels from liquid and natural gas to hydrogen. The hydrogen would be generated by renewable energy (solar, wind, and perhaps even tidal or ocean), and would be electrolyzed from water. The hydrogen would then be transported to the population centers in the U.S., where fuel-cell vehicles are expected to become popular and necessary to relieve dependency on fossil fuels. The specifications for the required pipeline hydrogen compressor indicates a need for a small package that is efficient, less costly, and more reliable than what is available in the form of a multi-cylinder, reciprocating (positive displacement) compressor for compressing hydrogen in the gas industry.