City completes’Together Hydrogen Charging Station’, charging 130 units a day
For the first time in Korea, a charging station was installed in Ulsan to receive hydrogen through a pipe connected to the city center.
On the 30th, Ulsan City held a ceremony for the completion of the’Together Hydrogen Charging Station’ in the area around 101, Shinhwa-ro, Nam-gu.
The completion ceremony was attended by 20 people including executive vice mayor Kim Seok-jin, president of the Korea Hydrogen Industry Association Kim Bang-hee, and representatives of related organizations and companies such as Kim Seong-bok, head of the hydrogen fusion alliance promotion.
According to the city, the charging station is a charging scale of 55 kg per hour. Construction began in February last year with a total project cost of 3 billion won. As hydrogen can be continuously supplied through the pipe, it can charge 130 hydrogen electric vehicles a day.
The city explained that the method of directly supplying hydrogen to a charging station through a supply pipe in the city is the first in Korea and the third in the world after Japan and the United States.
Compared to the method of supplying hydrogen with conventional vehicles (tube trailers), it is possible to transfer a large amount of water, which significantly increases the processing capacity of the charging station, reduces transportation costs, and prevents accidents.
Real-time monitoring is possible by introducing a safety management system applying an Internet of Things (ICT)-based sensor to the hydrogen charging station and the upper part of the pipe.
The city plans to build hydrogen pipes from the Onsan National Industrial Complex in the south, through Taehwagang Station, to the border of Gyeongju in the north, and expand to the eastern and western regions and the entire city.
The city also completed a hydrogen charging station at the Deokha Public Garage on that day.
The’Deokha Public Garage Hydrogen Charging Station’ is operated in combination with the CNG charging station.
Since it is located inside the public garage, it will be operated mainly for charging city buses, and it will take the lead in expanding the spread of various mobility by processing even large commercial vehicles, and the charging station will be operated by Kyungdong City Gas, a company specializing in high pressure gas.
A city official said, “Starting with this together hydrogen charging station, which caught two rabbits of economy and safety, we have successfully built a hydrogen charging infrastructure such as the creation of a hydrogen complex hub at Taehwagang Station, a mobile hydrogen charging station through a special zone for free hydrogen regulation, and a hydrogen ship charging station. We plan to build the world’s best hydrogen city in which hydrogen becomes everyday.”
Reporter Lee Sang-gil
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