Spanish talent leads the push for green hydrogen in public transport

On 12 December we had the opportunity to participate in the meeting “Leading Green Hydrogen. The Application of a Comprehensive Cycle for Public Transport,” an event organized by the Madrid Municipal Transport Company (EMT Madrid).

The event brought together Spanish companies that, like Cetil, have contributed their talent and innovation to the development of the recently opened EMT hydrogen station in Entrevías, the first public hydrogen station for buses in Europe; an infrastructure that has become an international benchmark in the promotion of sustainable public transport, covering the entire hydrogen cycle: production, compression, storage and distribution.

After a guided tour of the hydrogen station at the Entrevías operations centre, where our colleague Paco Cabrera, Director of New Energies, was able to see all the details of the installation up close, the attendees moved on to La Nave, the Madrid City Council innovation centre.

The first conference titled “Green Hydrogen in the Future of Mobility,” was held there and presented by Tomás Gómez-Acebo, Professor of Thermodynamics and Director of Fundación Repsol's Energy Transition Education and Research program at Universidad de Navarra. Two round tables were also held; the first related to the financial framework and sustainable hydrogen infrastructures, moderated by María José Rodríguez, member of the Governing Board of the School of Civil Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, while the second focused on EMT Madrid’s comprehensive hydrogen project, led by Carlos Sierra, Director of Transport Services, EMT.

The event highlighted the leadership of Spanish companies in promoting renewable hydrogen, bringing together the all-Spanish group of companies involved in the development of the EMT hydrogen station.

Cetil, by supplying 2 H35 dispensers with a heat exchanger for H2 pre-cooling, joins the group of 100% Spanish companies that have made this project possible, and which include:

• Arcamo and Gecrio: they collaborated in the supply of gas control equipment and process automation, both for hydrogen up to 500 bar, as well as for auxiliary process gases, installation, and integration with the main equipment, certifying the complete installation.
• Calvera: a hydrogen infrastructure equipment supplier that has pioneered high-pressure hydrogen storage.
• H2B2: a technology solutions company focused on the centralized production and distribution of hydrogen, whose mission has been to provide a PEM technology electrolyzer model EL200N capable of producing around 18 kg of hydrogen per hour.
• Hiperbaric: a high-pressure processing equipment supplier that supplied a compressor group made up of two independent components, compressing the hydrogen generated in the plant to a pressure of 500 bar so that it can be dispensed in fuel cell buses.
• Lapesa: a manufacturer of pressure vessels and tanks that supplied the low pressure hydrogen buffer tank.
• Ondoan: a company that develops engineering services and designed and implemented the 1.5 MW photovoltaic canopy.
• Serveo: the transversal integrator of facility management services was the coordinating company and awardee of the construction contract.
• The Spanish National Hydrogen Centre: working hard to promote a framework at a national level, so that companies in the industrial sector invest in H2.
• Técnicas reunidas: a company that designs and exports Spanish technology and goods and contributed to the engineering and start-up of the entire plant.

Cetil is proud to be part of this group of Spanish companies that, thanks to our talent and innovation, are promoting green hydrogen in public transport in our country and becoming international leaders within the energy sector.