FCV Learning Demonstration: Project Midpoint Status and First-Generation Vehicle Results.

Wipke, K. ; Sprik, S. ; Kurtz, J. ; Thomas, H.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Hydrogen fuels;    Refueling;    Demonstrations;    Performance;    Validation projects;   

RP-ID  :  DE2007920942

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

The Controlled Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project, also known as the Fuel Cell Vehicle and Infrastructure Learning Demonstration, is a 5-year U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project started in 2004. The purpose of this project is to conduct an integrated field validation that simultaneously examines the performance of fuel cell vehicles and the supporting hydrogen infrastructure. Four industry teams are currently operating more than 77 vehicles and 14 refueling stations, with plans to add over 50 additional vehicles and several additional refueling stations during the remainder of the project duration. This paper covers the progress accomplished by the demonstration and validation project since inception, including results from analysis of six months of new data. With three sets of public results having been presented previously, this paper comes at roughly the mid-point of the project, just as second-generation fuel cell stacks and vehicles are being introduced and some early vehicles are being retired. With many fuel cell stacks having accumulated well over 500 hours of real-world operation, there is now a higher level of confidence in the trends and projections relating to the durability and voltage degradation of these first-generation fuel cell stacks.