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Computer Simulation to Optimize the VFA Alpha Prototype with a Hydraulic Piston Compressor and an Integrated Booster

  • Hygen Ltd.

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Abstract

Natural gas, including biomethane, is a sustainable alternative fuel. Widening compressed natural gas applications by now is restricted by weakly developed infrastructure. Hygen Ltd. works on "hydraulic piston"technology for natural gas and biomethane compressing, storing, delivering and discharging the storage cylinders by means of an innovative hydraulic boosting technology. Designing of the Vehicle Fuelling Appliance (VFA) demands to take into account thermodynamics and gas dynamics properties at fluid compression and motion. The present paper deals with theoretical characteristics and their link to test measurements regarding a particular VFA HYGEN+ Alpha prototype manufactured by Hygen Ltd.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5-17
Number of pages13
JournalLatvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences
Volume57
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2020

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

OECD Field of Science

  • 2. Engineering and Technology

Keywords

  • Gas compression
  • gas refuelling
  • gas storage
  • gas thermodynamics
  • Matlab simulation
  • reservoir engineering and simulation

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