Sandvik Materials Technology, which manufactures coated steel strip ready to be pressed into bipolar plates for fuel cells, has recently hosted the inauguration of Swedenâs fourth hydrogen refueling station, located in the town of Sandviken, in partnership with the Municipality of Sandviken and AGA Gas.
The new facility is the worldâs first 100% fossil-free hydrogen refueling station for fuel-cell vehicles. Hydrogen combustion differs from gasoline combustion because, rather than resulting in carbon dioxide and water vapor, the only exhaust product of hydrogen combustion is water vapor.
In 2014, an idea was proposed by Mats W Lundberg, Principal R&D Engineer and fuel cells and hydrogen specialist at Sandvik Materials Technology, to build a local refueling station alongside the hydrogen gas line that runs from AGA Gas into Sandvikâs industrial site. The suggestion led to a successful partnership between the Municipality of Sandviken, Sandvik and AGA which joined forces to build a hydrogen refueling station in Sandviken with the aim of promoting and enabling a greener region.
Peter Kärnström, Mayor of Sandviken, said: âIt is with great pride that we have inaugurated the fourth hydrogen filling station in Sweden and the first outside the countryâs metropolitan regions. This is the result of a unique public-private partnership, and is highly significant for Sandviken as a modern industrial center in terms of the environmental and growth perspectives that we will all share.â?
