Hydrogen fuel storage and delivery system
AssigneeGreen Grid Inc.
InventorsChinmoy Prosun Saha, Jeffrey Scott Pickles
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Abstract
A fuel delivery and storage system is provided. A further aspect employs a remote central controller and/or software instructions which receive sensor data from stationary and bulk fuel storage tanks, portable distribution tanks, and end use tanks. Another aspect of the present system senses and transmits tank or hydrogen fuel characteristics including temperature, pressure, filled volume, contaminants, refilling cycle life and environmental hazards. Still another aspect includes a group of hydrogen fuel tanks which is pre-assembled with sensor, valve, microprocessor and transmitter components, at least some of which are within an insulator.
Claims22
A fuel storage and delivery system comprising:
- (a) stationary and bulk storage tanks operably storing some pressurized hydrogen;
- (b) distribution vehicles including portable distribution storage tanks to store some of the pressurized hydrogen;
- (c) end use tanks containing some of the pressurized hydrogen;
- (d) sensors and a communications transmitter being connected to each of the distribution and end use tanks;
- (e) at least one central and remotely located controller being configured to:
- i. receive sensed data from each of the transmitters;
- ii. determine actual hydrogen consumption and tank refill trends based at least in part on the sensed data;
- iii. predictively model new distribution depot locations for the distribution vehicles;
- iv. predictively model new locations for at least some of the bulk storage tanks;
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- v. visually display results of the predictive models.
A fuel storage and delivery system comprising:
- (a) stationary and bulk storage tanks operably storing some pressurized hydrogen;
- (b) an unmanned autonomous aircraft or watercraft including a portable distribution storage tank to store some of the pressurized hydrogen;
- (c) end use tanks containing some of the pressurized hydrogen;
- (d) sensors and a communications transmitter connected to each of the distribution and end use tanks, and a location identifier coupled to and moveable with the unmanned autonomous aircraft or watercraft;
- (e) at least one central and remotely located controller receiving sensed data from each of the transmitters, and the central controller receiving a location signal from the location identifier;
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- (f) the at least one central and remotely located controller being configured to predictively model new distribution depot locations for the unmanned autonomous aircraft or watercraft, and predictively model new locations for at least some of the bulk storage tanks.
A fuel storage and delivery system comprising:
- (a) stationary hydrogen storage tanks;
- (b) distribution vehicles including portable hydrogen distribution storage tanks;
- (c) stationary end use hydrogen tanks;
- (d) sensors and a communications transmitter being connected to each of the portable hydrogen distribution storage tanks and the stationary end use hydrogen tanks;
- (e) at least one remotely located controller including software, stored in non-transient memory, the software comprising:
- i. instructions receiving sensed data from each of the transmitters;
- ii. instructions determining a hydrogen filled quantity within each of the portable hydrogen distribution storage tanks and the stationary end use hydrogen tanks;
- iii. instructions comparing the determined filled quantity with a desired filled quantity threshold;
- iv. instructions causing at least one of the distribution vehicles to be refilled from at least one of the bulk storage tanks;
- v. instructions causing at least one of the distribution vehicles to refill at least one of the stationary end use hydrogen tanks;
- vi. instructions receiving distribution tank pressure data from at least one of the sensors;
- vii. instructions receiving distribution tank temperature data from at least one of the sensors;
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- viii. instructions automatically changing a distribution tank characteristic based on at least some of the sensor data received;
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- (f) the software further being configured to automatically predictively model new distribution depot locations for at least some of the portable hydrogen distribution storage tanks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.