Haskel Hydrogen Systems partners with NanoSUN

In September 2020, the HyFlyer I project demonstrated one of the world’s first flights of a hydrogen-electric aircraft at Cranfield, England. Having been awarded a further £12.3 million of funding by the UK government, the HyFlyer II project has now launched with the aim of demonstrating the viability of a larger 19-seat hydrogen-electric aircraft.

EMEC Hydrogen, the company delivering the green hydrogen fuelling systems required to power the aircraft for flight tests, selected NanoSUN to provide the hydrogen refuelling hardware for the project. Haskel Hydrogen Systems will supply a compression system taking low-pressure hydrogen from an electrolysis production system and compressing it to fill NanoSUN’s mobile Pioneer Hydrogen Refuelling Station. The station will then be driven to the airfield to refuel the aircraft.

Haskel Hydrogen Systems’ system will take hydrogen from a source pressure of around 30 bar and deliver it at up to 500 bar, at a flow rate of approximately 3.5 kg/hr. The main compression equipment will be housed in a bespoke Nano enclosure, our small-scale hydrogen refuelling station and will include pneumatic gas compression, an air compressor with dryer and simple push button control.

The pressure and flow will be delivered by four Haskel Hydrogen Systems gas boosters split into two stages. The first stage comprises a pair of ADG-14 boosters, which take the gas from 30 bar to 180 bar. The second stage features a pair of ADG-62 boosters, which increase the gas pressure from 180 bar to 500 bar.

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