3 Jan, 2023 @ 14:15
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Valencia Port starts hydrogen refuelling tests

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TESTS on a new hydrogen refuelling centre are to be made in the Ports of Valencia this month.

The facility has been installed as part of the EU’s Clean Hydrogen JU program, with the project in Spain called H2Ports.

This initial refuelling station is not designed for fuelling-up ‘green’ ships – hydrogen powered shipping operations remain some years off – but will be used to make port operations more environmentally friendly.

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The Hydrogen refuelling system. Photo: Port of Valencia

The mobile station will be used initially to fuel the prototype Reach Stacker Vehicle (or container stacker)and a conventional 4X4 tractor unit for loading and unloading operations.

This is due to be converted to a hydrogen cell system later this year.

Initial testing is to ensure the refuelling system actually works as intended.

Dubbed the HRS (Hydrogen Refuelling System), it is split into a fixed facility and a mobile element.

The former stores and compresses the gas to the right pressure, while the mobile unit acts like a conventional fuel truck.

This will be the first time hydrogen loading tests are performed in a Spanish port.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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