City of Taylor - 2005 — Boyd Hydrogen, LLC

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City of Taylor

2005 to 2008

2006 BP and BOC agreed to supply a hydrogen fueling station to FORD in the City of Taylor to support the Ford Fuel Cell Focus fleet as well as the FORD Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine (HICE) Shuttle Van.

BOC-Taylor, MI-01.jpg — Delivered Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) Station

The original plan for the City of Taylor project was to use a 200 kg/day Steam Methane Reformer from H2GEN, but LH2 has proven the lower cost option.
Between 1995 and 2010, many companies including the team at H2Gen tried to get small scale conversion of pipeline natural gas to hydrogen to work. The problems with on-site conversion of natural gas to hydrogen include the significant challenge of maintaining hydrogen fuel quality during the automatic “turndown” and idle modes needed when local storage banks are full.
Most hydrogen vehicle fueling stations these days get compressed hydrogen delivered by. tube trailers with operating pressures of 160 to 500 bar. Since 2016 the US national hydrogen technology community has been aware that in California the stations receiving delivered liquid hydrogen have the lowest operating cost.

Medium and light duty vehicle fueling

The dispenser at the Taylor site was modified to fuel both light duty H2 Fuel Cell vehicles with less that 5 kg storage as well as these shuttle vans with > 30 kg on-board. The dispenser used a Bluetooth communication system that collected operational data as well as operational status and safety check results.

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