China's first commercial integrated refueling station with  distributed hydrogen production and refueling from ammonia has passed the  commissioning in Nanning Zhenxing Station, Sinopec Sales Co., Ltd recently. Guangxi Petroleum Branch. The products, as detected by a third party, meet the hydrogen standards for fuel cell vehicles (GB/T 37244-2018), and the first commercial hydrogen refueling for FCV has been carried out. The distributed ammonia decomposition to hydrogen technology adopted by the Station is independently developed by Sinopec RIPP who has the complete independent intellectual property rights. In addition, the main hydrogen refueling equipment and systems used are all independently produced and constructed by Sinopec Oilfield Equipment Corporation.

By applying Sinopec RIPP’s low-temperature and high-efficiency ammonia decomposition catalysts and the integrated process of ammonia decomposition and hydrogen purification, Zhenxing Station has greatly lowered the reaction temperature and effectively reduced the energy consumption, with the designed hydrogen recovery rate up to over 96%. Compared with the previous hydrogen utilization methods, the cost has been reduced by more than 60%.