SPHERA SOLUTIONS GMBH

New Bus ReFuelling for European Hydrogen Bus Depots

SPHERA SOLUTIONS GMBH is a business in european innovation council based in LEINFELDEN-ECHTERDINGEN.

Profile

The overall aim of NewBusFuel is to resolve a significant knowledge gap around the technologies and engineering solutions required for the refuelling of a large number of buses at a single bus depot. Bus depot scale refuelling imposes significant new challenges which have not yet been tackled by the hydrogen refuelling sector:
• Scale – throughputs in excess of 2,000kg/day (compared to 100kg/day for current passenger car stations)
• Ultra-high reliability – to ensure close to 100% available supply for the public transport networks which will rely on hydrogen
• Short refuelling window – buses need to be refuelled in a short overnight window, leading to rapid H2 throughput
• Footprint – needs to be reduced to fit within busy urban bus depots
• Volume of hydrogen storage – which can exceed 10 tonnes per depot and leads to new regulatory and safety constraints
A large and pan-European consortium will develop solutions to these challenges. The consortium involves 10 of Europe’s leading hydrogen station providers. These partners will work with 12 bus operators in Europe, each of whom have demonstrated political support for the deployment of hydrogen bus fleets.
In each location engineering studies will be produced, by collaborative design teams involving bus operators and industrial HRS experts, each defining the optimal design, hydrogen supply route, commercial arrangements and the

Within the european innovation council space, the company focuses on its core offering rather than a broad product line.

The business is associated with LEINFELDEN-ECHTERDINGEN.

The company is listed at the CLOSED stage of development.

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