Why can "Henan hydrogen" shine at the Winter Olympics?

Yutong hydrogen fuel bus serving the Winter Olympics charged at the hydrogen refueling station was provided by the surveyed company

Top News Henan Business Daily Chief Reporter Yang Guifang Reporter Guo Dingran Wang Zhiguo

At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, hydrogen fuel vehicles compete to "show muscle".

In this green Winter Olympics, there are Yutong, Henan Yu hydrogen equipment, etc., together with many car companies, hydrogen refueling stations, forming the world's largest hydrogen fuel vehicle operation chain, in the Winter Olympics to show the charm of new energy technology.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is undoubtedly the best runway for the development of green energy and science and technology, and it is also a watershed in the development of hydrogen energy.

The Henan company supplied fuel for hydrogen-fueled vehicles at the Winter Olympics

Futian, Yutong, Zhongtong, Geely and other major car companies are the protagonists of this "hydrogen" strength show, covering buses, cars, special vehicles such as snow wax cars and other vehicles.

Yutong provided 185 hydrogen fuel buses, as well as T7, airport shuttle buses, high-end passenger cars and other 950 buses to escort the event, Foton's Ouhui Bus provided 515 hydrogen fuel buses for the Winter Olympics, Toyota provided 107 Costa hydrogen engine minibuses and 140 second-generation MIRAI hydrogen fuel cell cars.

In this hydrogen energy vehicle show, in order to ensure the safe and stable supply of hydrogen energy, hydrogen refueling stations are their fuel support.

At the Yanqingyuan Hydrogen Refueling Station in Beijing's Zhongguancun, a hydrogen energy bus was "recharged" on the road in just 10 minutes, providing green and clean transportation services for the Beijing Winter Olympics. The gate of the hydrogen refueling station is affixed with a striking logo "'Science and Technology Winter Olympics' Key Special Project", which is a demonstration project of "hydrogen energy travel" key technology research and development and application undertaken by Henan Yu Hydrogen Equipment Co., Ltd., a high-tech enterprise in Henan.

For the demonstration of Henan's hydrogen energy strength at the Winter Olympics, Zhang Chenyang, marketing director of Henan Yu Hydrogen Equipment Co., Ltd. and vice president of Henan Yu Hydrogen Engineering Research Institute, mentioned that in 2019, when Zhongguancun Yanqingyuan bid to the whole country to build a hydrogen refueling station, Yu Hydrogen Equipment submitted information. In the end, after a series of selections to win the bid, the first phase was completed in June 2020, and the second phase of the project was done in 2021.

According to the data, Henan Yu Hydrogen Equipment Co., Ltd. was registered in Xinxiang National High-tech Development Zone, which enjoys the "Battery Industry Capital of China" on August 1, 2017, and is a high-tech enterprise relying on Tongji University, a well-known university in China, for technical support and is committed to the research and development and production of key equipment, components and new materials related to hydrogen energy technology.

Technically, Yu Hydrogen equipment lives up to expectations. The on-board hydrogen supply system determines the mileage of the vehicle and has a decisive impact on the reliability and safety of fuel cell vehicles.

At present, the core team of Yu Hydrogen Equipment has become one of the few teams in China to master the core technology of the 70MPa vehicle hydrogen supply system, and the related products are used for the development and trial production of various types of logistics vehicles, commercial vehicles and passenger cars, and carry out in-depth cooperation with hydrogen energy industry chain enterprises in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Henan.

In addition to the on-board hydrogen supply system, the main products of Yu Hydrogen equipment include movable skid-mounted hydrogenation devices, high-pressure hydrogen storage systems, various pressurization systems, and non-standard customized equipment related to fuel cell testing.

At present, the company is fully promoting the industrialization process of the key equipment of the hydrogen refueling station and applying it to the first hydrogen refueling station built in Xinxiang City in 2018.

Behind a hydrogen refueling station is the strength of Henan's rapid development of hydrogen energy

A hydrogen refueling station at the Winter Olympics hides the strength of Henan's rapid development of hydrogen energy.

Zhou Jun, general manager of Henan Yu Hydrogen Equipment Co., Ltd., said that at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese athletes worked hard to cut gold and win silver, and on the track of hydrogen energy industry development, "Henan hydrogen" must also strive to be the first.

Henan is also promoting enterprises to achieve the goal of "striving to be the first" through forward-looking policies.

In August 2020, the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Henan Province, together with the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Provincial Department of Finance and other eight departments jointly formulated the "Henan Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Industry Development Action Plan", which proposes to support Xinxiang and Xuchang to rely on the existing industrial base to carry out related preparations such as on-board hydrogen supply systems, hydrogen carrier vehicle research and development and production, guide industrial agglomeration areas with strong equipment manufacturing capabilities to carry out hydrogen energy equipment technology and industrial introduction, and create a new growth point for hydrogen energy supply and core equipment manufacturing in our province.

In November 2021, the General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province issued the Implementation Plan for Accelerating the Development of the New Energy Vehicle Industry in Henan Province, which clearly accelerated the layout of the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle industry. In this plan, Henan has come up with a real money and silver reward method to promote the development of new energy.

Entering 2022, the national fuel cell development is moving towards the "3+2" fuel cell vehicle demonstration pattern, and Henan occupies an important position in the overall pattern.

In January 2022, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the National Energy Administration issued the Notice on Launching a New Batch of Fuel Cell Vehicle Demonstration Application Work, officially approving the implementation of fuel cell vehicle demonstration application work in the Zhengzhou Urban Agglomeration of Henan Province, with a demonstration period of 4 years.

Approved this time, the Zhengzhou Fuel Cell Vehicle Application Demonstration City Cluster takes Zhengzhou City as the leading city, Yutong Bus as the dominant enterprise, the fuel cell system integration enterprise with the strongest technical strength in the United Nations and the city where it is located, including the five cities of Xinxiang, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Anyang and Jiaozuo in the province, and 11 advantageous cities or regions in the industrial chain such as Shanghai's three districts (Jiading, Lingang, Fengxian), Zhangjiakou, Weifang, foshan and so on.

It is reported that in the field of fuel cell vehicle-related industries, Henan has begun to take shape. Yutong bus hydrogen fuel technology first trial, Henan hydrogen energy equipment and fuel cell key components industry foundation began to take shape, Yu Hydrogen Power, Zhengzhou Zhengxing Technology is committed to the research and development and promotion of hydrogenation equipment, Xinxiang Battery Research Institute has laid out fuel cell research and development projects, Xinxiang Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park gathered some hydrogen energy and fuel cell key equipment and component enterprises.

More than ten years of research and development history Yutong fuel cell bus has been updated to the third generation

The relevant person in charge of Yutong Group introduced to the top news Henan Business Daily reporter that as early as 2009, Yutong began to develop the first generation of fuel cell buses.

At present, Yutong has completed the development of three generations of fuel cell buses. The fuel cell bus has a hydrogenation time of 8 to 10 minutes, a driving range of more than 500 kilometers, can achieve a low temperature start of -30 °C, and the hydrogen consumption of the working conditions is 4.3kg/100km, and the economy has reached the international leading level. In terms of configuration, the above-mentioned third-generation hydrogen fuel cell bus is equipped with ECAS air suspension system, barrier-free passage, full airbag driver massage seat, liquid crystal display instrument, standard USB, 360 panoramic surround view system, visual early warning system and other humanized and intelligent configurations, bringing passengers and drivers a better driving experience.

It is understood that Yutong's fourth-generation fuel cell city bus is under development.

Zhengzhou is one of the cities with the largest fuel cell bus operation in China

Since august 2018, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) fuel cell project, Zhengzhou has launched a phase of 23 Yutong 12-meter fuel cell buses, and since the demonstration operation of Zhengzhou 727 bus, Zhengzhou has successively carried out multi-line fuel cell vehicle demonstrations. Since December 2019, Zhengzhou has successively launched the second phase of 200 Yutong 12-meter fuel cell buses, which is also the largest single batch of fuel cell bus demonstration projects in mainland China so far.

As of December 30, 2021, Zhengzhou has opened nearly 20 fuel cell bus lines, a total of 223 12-meter fuel cell buses, all of which use Yutong hydrogen fuel buses, with a safe cumulative operation of more than 15 million kilometers, which is one of the largest cities in China in terms of large-scale fuel cell bus operation. In terms of hydrogenation infrastructure, Henan Province has built a total of 7 hydrogen refueling stations (4 in Zhengzhou, 2 in Xinxiang and 1 in Luoyang), which is at the leading level in China.

In 2021, Yutong was approved to establish the Henan Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cell Vehicle Industry Research Institute, and obtained the fuel cell truck qualification, and comprehensively laid out fuel cell commercial vehicle products (the product layout covers buses, sanitation vehicles, trucks, logistics vehicles and other fields).

In the future, fuel cell vehicles will also be used in a wider range of commercial fields.