Hydrogen Technology Demonstration Facility

Our Hydrogen Industry Mission launched in May 2021. It focuses on leveraging CSIRO's hydrogen research capabilities in partnership with government, industry and the research community.

One of the Mission's key pillars focuses on Demonstration Projects, which are collaborative partnerships to demonstrate technologies that validate hydrogen value chains and de-risk enabling technologies, to inform investment and deployment decisions.

The Hydrogen Technology Demonstration Facility acts primarily as a refuelling station for hydrogen vehicles and to test the technologies associated with hydrogen fuelling. 

Some of the features of the refuelling station including artists drawing of H2 refueller, portable technology, CLC pilot plant and renewable energy section.

Tech demo opportunities

Value chain	Process
Production	CLC-H2-gas electrolyser fuel pyrolysis fuel reformer
Separation and purification	cryogenic CO2 separation (h2/CO2; CH$/CO2(biogas))
Storage and transport	ortho-para conversion
Dispensing	refueler
Utilisation	methanation methanol aviation fuels

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The hub also houses hydrogen production and storage facilities and will bring researchers, industry partners and businesses together to test and demonstrate new and emerging hydrogen technologies.

Refuelling station

Hydrogen is a clean fuel source that will become cost-competitive, but a major barrier to using it to power cars and trucks is working out how to refuel, and a lack of refuelling infrastructure.

This refuelling station is a significant step towards removing that barrier.

Initially, a fleet of hydrogen vehicles will be available for CSIRO and our partners as a trial and an example of ‘real world’ use. There is potential to expand to provide refuelling to other zero-emission vehicle trials in the local area.

Other hydrogen technology demonstration capabilities

In addition to the refuelling station, the hub also houses hydrogen production and storage facilities, and is a location to bring researchers, industry partners and businesses together to test, trial and demonstrate new and emerging hydrogen technologies.

These technology demonstration opportunities span across the hydrogen production value chain, including:

• production
• separation and purification
• storage and transport
• dispensing
• utilisation.

The Hydrogen Technology Demonstration Facility is already being used to test novel hydrogen technologies.