Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hydrogen station operation method and hydrogen station
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Application No.: US16586055Application Date: 2019-09-27
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Publication No.: US11079071B2Publication Date: 2021-08-03
- Inventor: Kenji Nagura , Tomohiro Ootsuka
- Applicant: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Hyogo
- Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
- Current Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hyogo
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JPJP2018-229865 20181207
- Main IPC: F17C7/04
- IPC: F17C7/04 ; F17C13/02 ; F17C13/04 ; B67D7/04 ; B67D7/78 ; B67D7/80

Abstract:
A hydrogen station operation method capable of adjusting pressure in a reservoir to the pressure suitable for liquid hydrogen replenishment while cutting hydrogen waste is for replenishing liquid hydrogen into the reservoir in a hydrogen station including: a gasification path partially gasifying liquid hydrogen out of the reservoir and returning it; and a gas delivery path delivering gasified hydrogen in the reservoir into a path between a vaporizer and a compressor or the vaporizer, when the remainder of liquid hydrogen in the reservoir becomes a first threshold or less, by reducing the liquid hydrogen amount flowing through the gasification path by a valve therein, reducing the gasification amount of liquid hydrogen in the reservoir, and increasing the hydrogen gas amount delivered through the gas delivery path from the reservoir by a valve therein, pressure in the reservoir is reduced, thereby performing operation where suction pressure of the compressor is reduced.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200182408A1 HYDROGEN STATION OPERATION METHOD AND HYDROGEN STATION Public/Granted day:2020-06-11
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