SK E&S completes new liquefied hydrogen station in South Korea
Published on: Jul 1, 2024
The alternative fuel will be produced at the Incheon Liquefied Hydrogen Plant and supplied to the charging station to refuel up to 120 buses per day.
SK E&S has completed the first liquefied hydrogen (H2) fueling station in South Korea’s Gyeonggi province, established to power up to 120 buses daily.
The site is operated by SK Plug Hyverse, a joint venture between SK E&S and Plug Power in 2022 to boost H2 initiatives across Asia. Equipped with a 4-ton liquefied hydrogen storage tank, cryogenic pumps, and two dispensers, the facility can supply H2 to six buses per hour, or about 120 buses per day.
After being selected for the Ministry of Environment's hydrogen fueling station installation support project in 2022, construction began in August 2023, and the facility was successfully commissioned earlier this year.
"Liquefied hydrogen refueling stations have the advantage of being suitable for large commercial vehicles and are expected to spread in earnest with the recent expansion of commercial vehicles such as hydrogen buses," said Soyeop Soo, Vice President of SK E&S.
Located in the parking lot of SK Hynix's Icheon Campus, the site will supply hydrogen fuel to commuter buses for SK Hynix employees.
The Icheon station will get its liquid hydrogen supply from SK E&S’s Incheon Liquid Hydrogen Plant, inaugurated in May. As the largest single-factory liquid hydrogen production facility in the world, the plant can produce 30,000 tons of liquid H2 in a year.
