AlfaLaval Powers Hydrogen Precooling for a Sustainable Future
Discover how AlfaLaval's innovative precooling technology accelerates hydrogen fueling, enhancing efficiency and sustainability for the clean energy transition.
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With the rising demand for hydrogen-powered vehicles comes the need for fuelling stations that deliver high-capacity, high-speed, zero-waiting-time performance. That’s why Alfa Laval developed new HyBloc heat exchangers. Engineered to meet these challenges, we can ensure fast, efficient, and safe refuelling for all types of hydrogen vehicles – from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks, buses, and beyond.
HyBloc gives you a head start in hydrogen
"One of the greatest challenges in transitioning to hydrogen fuel vehicles is establishing the necessary infrastructure and ensuring reliable, high-quality technology that integrates seamlessly with existing systems. It’s not enough to develop the technologies, we need to make them easy to use, so that the market will take them up on a meaningful scale. If we consider hydrogen vehicles as an example, they represent a technology that is being implemented across the globe. Alfa Laval has been focusing on how our printed circuit heat exchangers can help hydrogen vehicles become more mainstream" - says Ron Faber, Product Leader for Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers at Alfa Laval.
Exceptional performance, today and tomorrow
- HyBloc’s exceptional performance comes from its ability to handle high operating pressures and deliver large cooling capacities. This combination shortens refuelling times while reducing wait times between fills.
- Durable, fusion-bonded plates make HyBloc units extremely robust. They can withstand pressures up to 1,250 bar (18,125 psi), and operating temperatures as low as -196°C (-320.8°F).
- Designed for today’s H70 systems operating at 700 bar and tomorrow’s even higher refuelling pressures, HyBloc is future-ready for the next generation of hydrogen fuelling applications.
Continuous cooling, with a tiny footprint
Unlike other heat exchanger technologies, which require time to recharge between fuelling sessions, HyBloc’s combination of a compact, thermally responsive design and a continuously operating cooling loop enables back-to-back filling, with no waiting time. And as HyBloc precoolers are approximately 85% smaller than comparable shell-and-tube heat exchangers, they fit easily into existing dispensers. The compact design eliminates the need for costly, time-consuming underground installations, making them ideal for use in limited-space environments.
A fully customized solution
The HyBloc range consists of seven standard models designed to meet diverse capacity requirements and accommodate all types of vehicles. This includes four models suitable for liquid cooling (HyBloc) and three models optimized for vaporizing cooling with carbon dioxide (HyBloc C).
If you need a customized solution, HyBloc can be engineered-to-order and optimized for your specifications, including cooling fluid and capacity requirements, to ensure maximum performance.
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