Hydrogen Infrastructure Costs
Project Summary
| Full Title: |
Fuel Choice for Fuel Cell Vehicles: Hydrogen Infrastructure Costs |
| Previous Title(s): |
Guidance for Transportation Technologies: Fuel Choice for Fuel Cell Vehicles
Fuel Choice for Fuel Cell Vehicles: Stakeholder Risk
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| Project ID: |
72 |
| Principal Investigator: |
Stephen Lasher |
| Brief Description: |
TIAX assessed the relative risks of various hydrogen pathways for use in fuel cell vehicles. |
| Keywords: |
Fuel cell vehicles (FCV); transition; hydrogen infrastructure; costs |
Performer
| Principal Investigator: |
Stephen Lasher |
| Organization: | TIAX, LLC |
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| Address: | 15 Acorn Park
Cambridge, MA 02140 |
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| Telephone: | 617-498-6108 |
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| Email: | lasher.stephen@tiaxllc.com |
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Period of Performance
| Start: |
April 2002
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| End: |
September 2005
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Project Description
| Type of Project: |
Analysis |
| Category: |
Hydrogen Fuel Pathways |
| Objectives: |
Analyze transition scenarios that are associated with developing a hydrogen infrastructure for fuel cell vehicles; Develop a model that can be used to determine investment risk and economic viability of natural gas to hydrogen pathways; Determine investment risk and economic viability of pathways;
Identify key economic barriers to the development of a hydrogen infrastructure and possible development paths; Assess impact on various stakeholders and how risks could be shared and minimized; Evaluate scenarios that could bring down the initial costs of hydrogen |
| Technologies Considered: |
Excess merchant, ammonia, refinery, and methanol plant hydrogen capacity; steam reforming; liquid hydrogen; on-board reforming of gasoline; internal combustion engine vehicles; hybrid vehicles; direct-hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; reformer-based fuel cell vehicles |
| Inputs: |
- Description: Number of FCVs on the road (assumed)
- Description: Capital costs as a function of production volume
- Description: Fuel prices
- Description: Vehicle fuel economies
- Description: Operating costs
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| Models Used: |
Spatial demand model (TIAX); NPV model (TIAX); GREET model (ANL); hydrogen infrastructure model (TIAX) |
| Data Used/Contributing Research: |
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GREET and H2A model assumptions and results, well-to-wheel performance and cost calculations, fuel cell power unit performance, fuel costs, vehicle ownership costs, on-site hydrogen fueling station costs, bottom-up fuel cell component costs, GIS
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| Outputs: |
GHG emissions, energy use, and net present value for various hydrogen infrastructure pathways; hydrogen demand maps; number of fueling stations needed to meet coverage of demand (availability of stations); production capacity constraints; expenditures and revenues from hydrogen sales for each type of hydrogen infrastructure; cost of delivering excess hydrogen from existing infrastructure (e.g., refineries, ammonia and methanol plants) to population centers across the U.S.; amount of excess hydrogen that could be utilized from existing plant capacity grouped by distance from the plant |
Products/Deliverables
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Description: FY 2005 Progress Report
Publication Title: FY 2005 Hydrogen Program Progress Report
Article/Abstract Title: III.7 Fuel Choice for Fuel Cell Vehicles: Hydrogen Infrastructure Costs
Page number(s): 50
Publisher: U.S. Department of Energy
Author Name(s): Lasher, Stephen; Unnasch, Stefan; Chan, Michael; Marion, Mark
(PDF 745 KB) Download Adobe Reader.
Publication Date:
November 2005
Description: Program Review Presentation
Publication Title: 2005 DOE Hydrogen Program Review
Article/Abstract Title: Fuel Choice for FCVs: Hydrogen Infrastructure Costs
(PDF 362 KB) Download Adobe Reader.
Publication Date:
May 2005
Description: FY 2004 Progress Report
Publication Title: FY 2004 Hydrogen Program Progress Report
Article/Abstract Title: II.I.6 Fuel Choice for Fuel Cell Vehicles: Hydrogen Infrastructure Costs
Page number(s): 172
Publisher: U.S. Department of Energy
Author Name(s): Lasher, Stephen; Teagan, Peter; Unnasch, Stefan
(PDF 324 KB) Download Adobe Reader.
Publication Date:
November 2004
Description: Program Review Presentation
Publication Title: 2004 DOE Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies Program Review
Article/Abstract Title: Fuel Choice for FCVs: Hydrogen Infrastructure Costs
(PDF 1.2 MB) Download Adobe Reader.
Publication Date:
May 2004
Description: FY 2003 Progress Report
Publication Title: FY 2003 Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies Program Progress Report
Article/Abstract Title: VI.A.2 Fuel Choice for Fuel Cell Vehicles: Stakeholder Risk Analysis
Page number(s): VI-8
Publisher: U.S. Department of Energy
Author Name(s): Lasher, Stephen; Teagan, Peter; Unnasch, Stefan
(PDF 176 KB) Download Adobe Reader.
Publication Date:
November 2003
Description: Program Review Presentation
Publication Title: 2003 Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies Program Review
Article/Abstract Title: Candidate Fuels for Vehicle Fuel Cell Power Systems: Stakeholder Risk Analysis
Author Name(s): Lasher, Stephen
(PDF 288 KB) Download Adobe Reader.
Publication Date:
May 2003
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Date Last Updated: 02/15/2006
