Canada
A consortium — including Westport Innovations, Dynetek, Clean Energy and Power Tech — has announced the active demonstration phase of the $18 million Canadian Integrated Waste Hydrogen Utilization Project (IWHUP). IWHUP sources its hydrogen from a vented industrial waste stream in North Vancouver. North Vancouver has enough vented hydrogen to power 20,000 vehicles annually. There is 50,000,000 GGEs of hydrogen vented annually in Canada.
IWHUP's purified hydrogen is captured using Dynetek's carbon-fiber wrapped aluminum cylinders, then transported "milkman style" to a transit bus fuelling station, a vehicle fuelling station and a fuel cell powering a carwash. This transportation system drops off hydrogen-filled cylinders and picks up the empty ones. TransLink, the local public transit company, has converted four CNG buses into buses that can operate on a blend of 20 hydrogen/80 percent natural gas blend (HCNG) using Westport Innovations technology.
Clean Energy has engineered an HCNG fuelling station and hydrogen storage compound. Sacre-Davey Engineering and Powertech Labs teamed up to create a modular, space efficient hydrogen fuelling station for eight Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine (H-ICE) vehicles. This station is assembled offsite, positioned on a concrete pad and is modular and moveable (no below ground tanks), should future fuelling requirements dictate this. The five-year project, with 21 partners and members, culminates with a two year fully integrated demonstration of a clean local waste hydrogen source fuelling transportation and stationary power.
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