National Institute of Clean-and-low-carbon Energy

China Energy Investment Corporation Limited

Jeff Pickles

Xianming Jimmy Li

Anthony Ku

Surinder Singh

Edward Youn

Jeff Allen

Cullen Hall

A supply station and method are provided for charging an electric vehicle and filling a hydrogen-powered vehicle with hydrogen gas simultaneously or separately. The supply station includes a power supply unit, a storage battery system, an electricity-hydrogen conversion device, a hydrogen gas storage system, a hydrogen-electricity conversion device, a charger, and a hydrogen dispenser. The power supply unit and the hydrogen-electricity conversion device supply power to the storage battery system. The power supply unit and the storage battery system power the electricity-hydrogen conversion device. The electricity-hydrogen conversion device stores hydrogen gas in the hydrogen gas storage system. The hydrogen gas storage system provides hydrogen gas to the hydrogen-electricity conversion device. The charger charges an electric vehicle with electric power from the storage battery system. The hydrogen dispenser fills hydrogen gas into a hydrogen-powered vehicle.

Supply station and method capable of charging electricity and filling with hydrogen gas simultaneously or separately

A method for dispensing liquefied fuel, the method including: providing a non-petroleum fuel as a liquefied fuel to a storage tank; increasing pressure of the liquefied fuel to a target pressure using a pump disposed within the storage tank, where a first portion of the liquefied fuel is bypassed around or at least partially around a heat exchanger, and a second portion of the liquefied fuel is discharged to the heat exchanger, where the heat exchanger is configured to warm the second portion of the liquefied fuel. A dispenser is provided that incorporates a control system that allows coordinated fueling of one or more vehicles simultaneously, where the heat exchanger uses only the fuel itself without external refrigeration to manage final dispensing temperature and the fueling station does not include a storage subsystem disposed between the pump and the dispenser.

Method and system of dispensing liquefied gas

A fluid bypass method for controlling the temperature of a non-petroleum fuel, the fluid bypass method includes: providing a fuel at a pressure sufficient to effect a desired flow rate to a vehicle, the fuel being at a liquid or substantially supercritical thermodynamic state requiring further heat addition in a vaporizer; and diverting a bypass stream with partial or no vaporization to a heat exchanger as a cold fluid on a cold side of the heat exchanger. The method further includes providing a remainder stream of the fuel to the vaporizer; mixing the remainder stream outflowed from the vaporizer with the cold fluid outflowed from the cold side of the heat exchanger to form a combined fuel stream; and providing the combined fuel stream to the heat exchanger as a warm fluid on a warm side of the heat exchanger.

Fluid bypass method and system for controlling the temperature of a non-petroleum fuel

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