프랑스 알스톰, 세계 첫 수소열차 개발 The world's first hydrogen-powered passenger train is coming to Germany: VIDEO
The world's first hydrogen-powered passenger train is coming to Germany
But not until December 2017
프랑스 복합엔지니어업체 알스톰(Alstom)은 2016년 9월 수소연료전지를 활용한 '무공해 열차'를 개발 중이라고 밝혔다.
기존에 디젤연료 또는 전력그리드에 의존했던 열차 대신에 수소연료전지와 탄소배출 제로화 프로그램을 구축한 새로운 열차다.
이는 화석연료의 대체재이자 친환경 운송수단을 확보하기 위한 목적이며 수소연료전지 자동차에 이은 수소열차로의 흐름이 더욱 가시화될 것으로 전망된다.
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By Andrew J . Hawkins @andyjayhawk Sep 23, 2016
This week, French transit company Alstom unveiled the world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train, which will begin making trips in Germany at the end of the 2017. The news was first reported by German newspaper Die Welt.
The super-quiet Coradia iLint passenger train is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, which emit only steam and condensed water. A hydrogen fuel tank stored on the roof of the train powers the fuel cells to produce electrical energy. Alstom said it hopes its hydrogen-fueled trains can replace Europe’s many diesel-burning ones, which are still in wide use despite numerous electrification projects across the continent.
Alstom Coradia-iLint Decryption en OK by ahawkins8223 on Scribd
Alstom unveiled the new train at InnoTrans, an annual trade show in Berlin this week. Starting at the end of 2017, the train will run on the Buxtehude-Bremervörde-Bremerhaven-Cuxhaven line in the northwestern German state of Lower Saxony. Lower Saxony's local transportation authority has meanwhile ordered 14 trains of the type. Testing and approval by the German Federal Railway Authority Eisenbahn-Bundesamt will commence in fall 2016 and is expected to be completed by end of 2017.
The Coradia iLint may be the world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train, but it’s certainly not the first vehicle to run on hydrogen fuel cells. Stan Thompson, former strategic planner at AT&T and long-term advocate of the use of hydrogen for rail transportation, coined the term "hydrail" in 2004 to describe any type of rail vehicle that uses hydrogen fuel cells. There have been prototypes and hybrid trains in the meantime, most notably in Japan.
This is the latest announcement that points to Germany’s efforts to innovate rail travel. Last July, Deutsche Bahn, the largest railway operator in Europe, announced it would be working with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to bring its futuristic technologies to its train fleet.
