Energy, Environmental and Economic Life cycle Assessment of Hydrogen Source via Natural Gas Steam Reforming for Fuel Cell Vehicles

摘要

In order to provide useful references for China to establish the scheme of hydrogen source for fuel cell vehicles in the near future and facilitate the hydrogen energy system assessment in China, the paper for the first time designs four feasible plans of hydrogen source via natural gas steam reforming for fuel cell vehicles, then uses energy, environmental and economic life cycle assessment as the tool to evaluate the energy, environmental and economic performances of those four plans and picks out the best plan. The results show that the best plan of hydrogen source is: hydrogen is produced by natural gas steam reforming in the central factory, then transported to the refueling stations in the hydrogen gas cylinders by the trucks, at last filled into the fuel cell vehicles which use hydrogen gas.