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Multi-modal Hydrogen Refuelling Station in Csepel Port (Budapest)

In Hungary, currently there is only one hydrogen refuelling station (HRS), which is in test operation. Busy Port of Csepel attracts intensive traffic, with high portion of heavy-duty vehicles, causing considerable air pollution, since there are several logistic centers, freight terminal nearby as well. Without HRS, cargo fleet operators will not decide to purchase hydrogen fuel cell (FCEV) trucks.
Port of Csepel is an excellent venue for alternative fuel delivery, since on one hand lies right next the Danube, which is in itself a TEN-T(core) waterway, and a site was designated some years ago to install a CNG/LNG refuelling station, which would be able to serve ships on the Danube, as well as trucks in the port area. Besides, this future site is also close (~7 km) to the M0 Motorway, which is busy, international road transport pathway belonging also to the TEN-T core network. Moreover, as the feasibility study shows, there would be enough space to place and install also a gaseous and liquid hydrogen(LH2) refuelling station, so several of the alternative fuels would be available. All of these would be available for multi-modal refuelling, for ships and trucks.
The main stakeholders – beyond the developers and operators - are shipping companies, which run on the Danube, and road cargo companies, to a large extent international carriers, so Csepel Port HRS could facilitate the regional hydrogen mobility; local inhabitants along the roads will be exposed to less pollution.

Cost estimate is available for preliminary plans, approx. 11- 12 million EUR, and took ~2,5 years (~2000 man-months). Market entry could be in 2026, also depending on H2-fuelled ships on Danube

A CNG / LNG / hydrogen multi-fuel and multi-modal filling station will be able to refuel ships as well as trucks on the same venue, since the port attracts thousand trucks per day, located rather close to a TEN-T road (Highway No. “M0”) and the Danube in itself is a TEN-T waterway corridor. Ports are considered to be important (first) hydrogen hubs of the hydrogen economy. Ideal for early phase pilot, and could serve as learning cente for gaseous and cryogenic fuels.

Since this will be the first, moreover a multi-fuel and multi-modal refuelling station, very thorough and complex coordination is needed among the stakeholders.

Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Directive and its revised version (Regulation) requires establishing hydrogen refuelling stations along the main TEN-T road corridors and encourages to establish HRS along the TEN-T waterways. This multi-fuel, multi-modal refuelling site in the intersection of several TEN-T roads, in an urban node can be a valuable example, because it helps to maximize the utilization of the hydrogen refuelling station, which is extremely important in the early phase market development of hydrogen mobility.
Moreover, there is a future potential possibility to expand this system to rail refuelling, since there are industrial railway tracks nearby as well to this multi-energy filling station (the rail serves the port area). So, in a full implementation concept, this venue could be probably the first European tri-modal hydrogen (+LNG) filling station; but at least bimodal refuelling station, serving gaseous and liquid alternative fuels.