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CT: Over the last ten years, the Clean Hydrogen Partnership has sought ways to overcome the challenges to the uptake of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). It has funded a series of flagship car and refuelling infrastructure projects to demonstrate the hydrogen fuel cell technology’s reliability and financial viability, bringing down costs and building the investor confidence needed to upscale fuel cells and hydrogen use across the transport sector.
With the funding of hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) we aim to create initial networks and facilitate the uptake of FCEVs. However, until FCEVs become a mainstream technology, the density of refuelling stations is likely to remain low relative to retail outlets for traditional fuels.
S: CHP – https://www.clean-hydrogen.europa.eu/get-involved/european-hydrogen-refuelling-station-availability-system_en (last access: 25 January 2024)
N: The term hydrogen refuelling station is composed by:
– hydrogen (n), which refers to the colourless, gaseous element, from French hydrogène (Modern Latin hydrogenium), coined in 1787 by G. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthollet, and Fourcroy from Greek hydr-, stem of hydor “water” (from suffixed form of PIE root *wed- (1) “water; wet”) + French -gène “producing”.
– refuelling (adj), which is obtained from the gerund form of the verb refuel, also re-fuel, “supply again with fuel, refill with fuel,” coined in 1811, from re- “again” + fuel (v.), originally in a spiritual sense; later of gas tanks, motor vehicles, etc.
In British English, verbs with two syllables double the final consonant to form the gerund if the word ends in vowel + consonant and the final syllable is stressed. The letter u in this verb is not a vowel but a consonant. Thus, it is necessary to add an “l” to form the gerund.
In American English, this spelling rule does not apply.
– station (n) from late 13th century, stacioun, “a place one normally occupies,” from Old French stacion, estacion “site, location; station of the Cross; stop, standstill,” from Latin stationem (nominative statio) “a standing, standing firm; a post, job, position; military post; a watch, guard, sentinel; anchorage, port” (related to stare “to stand,” from PIE root *sta- “to stand, make or be firm”). The meaning “regular stopping place” is recorded by 1797, in reference to coach routes; it was applied to stopping places on railroads by 1830.
2. A Hydrogen Refuelling Station (HRS) refills FCEVs with pressurised hydrogen. A simple HRS consists of hydrogen storage tanks, hydrogen gas compressors, a pre-cooling system, and a hydrogen dispenser, which dispenses hydrogen to pressures of 350 or 700 bars depending on the type of vehicle. A typical hydrogen car will be refuelled in three minutes and a bus in seven minutes.
3. This facility is called by different names: it can be named as hydrogen refuelling or fuelling station (meaning the same and with an “l” or two depending if we speak in American or British English) when we refer to a facility where hydrogen is produced, stored and distributed to vehicles inside the facility itself, but it can also be named as hydrogen filling station if it refers to a place where hydrogen is only stored and distributed to vehicles, but it has been transported there from the place of production as it happens in the case of petrol stations.
4. Cultural interrelation. We can mention the book Renewable Energy Based Hydrogen Refuelling Station: For Fuel Cell Vehicle (2009) by Dr Mohan Kolhe, Atte Pakkanen and Arjo Heinsola.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=hydrogen, https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=refuel, https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=station (last access: 28 January 2024). 2. UKH2M – https://www.ukh2mobility.co.uk/stations/ (last access: 25 January 2024). 3. GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/26560454/centre-de-distribution-dhydrogene, https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/26558939/station-de-distribution-dhydrogene#en (last access: 28 January 2024). 4. Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/RENEWABLE-ENERGY-HYDROGEN-REFUELLING-STATION/dp/3639218086 (last access: 25 January 2024).
SYN: hydrogen fuelling station, hydrogen filling station. (depending on context)
S: GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/resultats-de-recherche?tx_solr%5Bq%5D=hydrogen+refueling+station&tx_solr%5Bfilter%5D%5B0%5D=type_stringM%3Abdl&tx_solr%5Bfilter%5D%5B1%5D=type_stringM%3Agdt&tx_solr%5Bfilter%5D%5B2%5D=terme%3A1 (last access: 25 January 2024)
CR: air pollution, alternative energy sources, banking energy, biofuel, blue hydrogen, charging pool, electrolysis, electrolyser, emission reduction, green power, hydrogen, green hydrogen, grey hydrogen, fuel cell, proton, volt.
