China's first heavy-load railway hydrogen refueling research and demonstration station was put into business Sunday in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Located in Ordos, a prefecture-level city of Inner Mongolia, the Batuta hydrogen station under China's energy giant CHN Energy Investment Group (CHN Energy) mainly provides services for domestic heavy-duty hydrogen-powered shunting locomotives and zero-emission catenary working vehicles supported by hydrogen fuel cell and lithium-ion power battery.
The station is equipped with the world's first low-temperature-resistant automatic refueling and hydrogenation robot and high-flow hydrogenation machine independently developed and manufactured by China, which can achieve all-weather continuous operation and large-flow automatic hydrogenation at temperatures as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius.
With a refueling capacity of 500 kilograms per day and a hydrogen storage capacity of 800 kilograms, the station can fill up a hydrogen-powered locomotive in as short as as 30 minutes.
The hydrogen fuel can help the locomotive run continuously for eight hours, with an unloaded range of 800 kilometers. It is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 800 tons per year.
China's first heavy-load railway hydrogen refueling station starts commercial operation
