VHyTTA

While the battery-electric technology could serve as a viable option for passengers’ cars and light-duty vehicles, hydrogen, especially in its liquid form (LH2), offers a promising avenue for decarbonizing larger-scale transportation. To answer the projected ten billion annual passengers of aviation industry, LH2 is poised to play a key role in decarbonizing short and medium-haul flights.

However, the current substantial energy and capex investment required for electrolysis, compression, storage, transportation and distribution is a costly energy vector and hampering LH2 replacement of diesel/kerosene three times cheaper.

VHyTTA seeks to address the obstacles in hydrogen distribution by developing and demonstrating at TRL7 two multipurpose and flexible concepts of HRS: one fixed and one mobile to meet the needs of aviation, maritime and railroad transport sectors and distribute hydrogen to a wide range of vehicles including aircraft, ships (LH2 and GH2), trains, airport fleet, captive fleet and buses.

Theme: Research & Development

Start date: 1 December 2025

Eind date: 30 November 2029

Leadpartner: DNV 

Funding: HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility

• Develop, build and operate a new concept of fixed cGH2 station
• Develop a novel, mobile refuelling solution capable of delivering liquid hydrogen fuel to aircraft & ships in line with customers’ requirements
• Develop and validate models to digitalise the refuelling stations
• Ensure top HSSE standards of HRS delivering hydrogen for multiple applications
• Optimise logistics and value chain integration of a hydrogen hub at airports
• Assess economics and environmental impact of the technologies and demonstrators