Monday, March 31, 2008 - 2:50 PM
Show Me the Road to Hydrogen
The University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) and Ford Motor Company have demonstrated a commuter bus service and hydrogen refueling at a station in rural Missouri near Ft. Leonard Wood. Initiated by a request from the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) at Ft. Leonard Wood (FLW), UMR is helping to establish a commuter service between FLW and the neighboring towns of Rolla and Lebanon each of which are located about 25 miles from the military base on Interstate-44. UMR’s National University Transportation Center with encouragement from US Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration is tackling the challenge of alternative fuels (including hydrogen) for the safe deployment of this new form of transportation. A broad research, training, and education agenda is being pursued in order to develop a rural hydrogen transportation test bed for developing, demonstrating, evaluating, and promoting hydrogen-based technologies in a real-world environment. With funds provided by the Defense Logistics Agency through the Air Force Research Laboratory, this hydrogen initiative is addressing a broad area of research topics including those listed below. Lessons learned from the ongoing project as well as a report on current activities will be discussed.
- Collect and evaluate real-world data to address safety and environmental issues, develop statistically validated codes and standards, formulate policies and regulations, and understand reliability and large-scale deployment of hydrogen technology under diverse operating conditions.
- Modeling, simulation, and design optimization of composite hydrogen storage cylinders for safe installation and operation.
- Develop, validate, and transition to a manufacturing environment, commercially ready, non-destructive testing technologies for hydrogen storage and transport systems.
- Test, demonstrate, and validate hydrogen vehicles, hydrogen transportation infrastructure, and vehicle and infrastructure interfaces for complete system solutions.
- Gain public acceptance to the use of an alternative energy source to power the transport system that is independent of the fossil fuel supplies.
- On-site generation of hydrogen from ethanol or crude ethanol beer via novel supercritical water reformation process
- Integrate research results into a comprehensive undergraduate and graduate curriculum to educate the future workforce on hydrogen technologies.
- Develop and implement an outreach program, in collaboration with other national programs, which has a special emphasis on safety training for operators, maintainers, code officials, and first responders.
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