On June 30, Tomoe Shokai opened Shinsuna H2 Station in Koto-ku, Tokyo. The station had been under construction as a 2016 project of the Next-generation Automobile Promotion Center for the subsidized hydrogen supply system for fuel cell vehicles. As the hydrogen station is located in the heart of the Metropolitan area, Tomoe Shokai had been particular about the “urban-type” feature from the stage of designing to satisfy the requirements of safety, compactness and responsiveness to the environments. The appearance of station and office was designed in three colors of blue, silver and white with the simple dispenser only attached in the entranceway.

With regard to the considerations of global environments, Takenaka Corporation adopted an ECM concrete which reduced CO2 at the production stage and also the Rain Scape System to mitigate the burden to sewage by the temporary storage of rain water. The ground foundation was improved to employ the TOFT method which prevents a liquidation damage which may be caused by earthquake.

In addition, for the supply of hydrogen to vehicles, Tomoe utilizes the low-carbon H2 which Showa Denko produces from used plastics in its Kawasaki Operations. For the time being, this hydrogen will be used, but Tomoe is planning to consider conversion to carbon-free hydrogen made from a renewable energy. The total cost of station amounts to 650 million yen including the civil engineering and construction. The site has a land area of 5933 sq. meter and a floor space of 267 sq. meter. Behind the building, a building of machinery and equipment will be built and then a trailer house to accommodate two trailers will be provided.

The filling package includes a reciprocating compressor (340Nm3/h) made by Kaji Technology, accumulators (200 x 5) of SAMTEC Type 3 and a dispenser made by Hitachi AMS in which a pre-cooling heat exchanger of shell/coil type developed by Tomoe has been associated.

The adopted accumulator has a 3-bank differential filling system capable for continuous filling of H2 (70MPa) to six FCVs. The H2 filling capacity at the waiting time of two trailers is for 100 FCVs and 10 FC buses. The filling time is three minutes and 15 minutes respectively. The selling price of H2 is planned to be 1000 yen/kg (excluding tax).

In the completion/opening ceremony held at the site on the same day, about 60 guests and people concerned attended.