Title :
Progress in the development of renewable hydrogen vehicles, storage, infrastructure in the UK: Hydrogen Centre in its early years of operation
Author :
Thanapalan, K.K.T. ; Kim, J.R. ; Carr, S.J.W. ; Zhang, F. ; Premier, G.C. ; Maddy, J. ; Guwy, A.J.
Author_Institution :
Sustainable Environ. Res. Centre (SERC), Univ. of Glamorgan, Port Talbot, UK
Abstract :
In this paper, a review and analysis of current developments and future proposal relating to hydrogen energy are carried out. This paper considers progress in the development of renewable hydrogen vehicles, storage, infrastructures around the world, and in partcular in the UK with reference to the work of the University of Glamorgan´s (UOG) Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC), who has developed the UK´s first alternative energy refueling facility at the University´s Hydrogen Centre in Baglan. The growth and interest of hydrogen based technologies can be seen by the magnitude of the events and demonstration projects carried out around the world. Research efforts at the UOG leads to the production of two tribrid vehicles and associated simulation models which can be used for further investigation and analysis of the problems such as energy management, system configuration, fuel consumption and hydrogen storage etc. these tools are also used to conduct an extensive study for control analysis, and math-based vehicle developments and controller design to improve system performance.
Keywords :
energy consumption; energy management systems; hybrid electric vehicles; hydrogen storage; power system control; Baglan; Glamorgan University; Sustainable Environment Research Centre; UK; alternative energy refueling facility; control analysis; energy management; fuel consumption; hydrogen centre; hydrogen energy; renewable hydrogen infrastructures; renewable hydrogen storage; renewable hydrogen vehicles; tribrid vehicles; Fuel cells; Fuels; Hydrogen; Hydrogen storage; Production; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP), 2011 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Harbin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0813-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICICIP.2011.6008347