Project Summary

The HECTOR project – Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe – will deploy and test 7 fuel cell garbage trucks, in 7 pilot sites across the north west Europe area:

  • Aberdeen (Scotland),
  • Groningen (Netherlands),
  • Arnhem (Netherlands),
  • Duisburg (Germany),
  • Herten (Germany),
  • Touraine Vallee de l’Indre (France),
  • Brussels (Belgium).

The aim of the HECTOR Project is to demonstrate that fuel cell garbage trucks provide an effective solution to reduce emissions from road transport in the North West Europe area.

The 7 pilot sites will cover a wide range of operational contexts. While some of the trucks will be operated in city centres, others will be tested in rural areas. Some of the vehicles will collect municipal waste on a fixed schedule, other will collect industrial waste on a flexible schedule. The trucks deployed in the project will range from container trucks to front arm loading trucks, both left- and right-hand drive.

The project aims to test the vehicles in normal operating conditions. The trucks will use existing hydrogen refuelling infrastructure and when possible, the pilot sites will use green hydrogen to fuel the trucks, thus maximising the emission reductions.

 

Why is the HECTOR Project needed ?

The effects of high levels of GHG emissions from the transport sector on health and quality of life are now widely recognised. Decarbonisation of road transport has therefore become a major topic for cities and regions, which are developing and implementing ambitious emission reduction policies.

Garbage trucks are directly procured by local authorities or waste management authorities; the public sector can therefore have
a direct influence on the purchase of these vehicles and the decarbonisation of garbage trucks fleets.


Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), using hydrogen as a fuel, are one of the solutions which enable a complete decarbonisation of
the transport system well to wheel. However, they remain a costly option and only a few zero emission garbage trucks have
been deployed and developed in Europe.

 

Expected results

The HECTOR project is designed to enable a smooth introduction of a zero-emission technology in conventional fuels fleets. It will therefore lay the grounds for upscaling and further deployment of fuel cell garbage trucks in these fleets in the near future. Each deployment site
will aim to continue the operation of the trucks after the end of the project and to gradually replace conventional fuel trucks by
fuel cell trucks.

 

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News

Project meeting in Aberdeen -30th of September 2019

Posted on 30-09-2019

The project partners gathered on the the 30th of September in Aberdeen to present the progress of the work packages and the first results of the project. Since all partners have la... Read more

Project partner Touraine Vallée de l’Indre opens Hydrogen fuelling station

Posted on 24-09-2019

This Saturday the 21st of September 2019, our project partner Communauté de Communes Touraine Vallée de l’Indre opened their first Hydrogen refuelling station in Sorigny. The new s... Read more

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Project Partners

  • Aberdeen City Council

    Marischal College Broad Street
    Aberdeen
    AB10 1AQ
    United Kingdom

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  • Municipality of Groningen

    1 Grote Markt
    Groningen
    9712 HN
    Netherlands

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  • PreZero Disposal, Recycle and Dual System

    10 Mr. E.N. van Kleffensstraat
    Arnhem
    6842 CV
    Netherlands

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  • Publicly owned venture of the municipality of Duisburg

    190 Schifferstraße
    Duisburg
    47059
    Germany

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  • ARP-GAN

    12 Avenue de Broqueville
    Brussels
    1150
    Belgium

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  • Touraine Vallee de l'Indre Municipalities

    6 Place Antoine de St Exupéry
    Sorigny
    37250
    France

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  • AGR Waste Management Services

    11 Im Emscherbruch
    Herten
    45699
    Germany

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  • HAN University of Applied Science

    29 Ruitenberglaan
    Arnhem
    6826 CC
    Netherlands

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Name Contact Name Email Country
Aberdeen City Council Amy Perry aperry@aberdeencity.gov.uk United Kingdom
Municipality of Groningen Jasper Tonen Jasper.tonen@groningen.nl Netherlands
PreZero Disposal, Recycle and Dual System Edwin Kramer edwin.kramer@prezero.com Netherlands
Publicly owned venture of the municipality of Duisburg Mirco Wagner m.wagner@wb-duisburg.de Germany
ARP-GAN Andre Dewilde andre.dewilde@bruxelles-proprete.be Belgium
Touraine Vallee de l'Indre Municipalities Aurelie Michel aurelie.michel@tourainevalleedelindre.fr France
AGR Waste Management Services Frank Aulkemeyer Frank.Aulkemeyer@agr.de Germany
HAN University of Applied Science Bram Veenhuizen bram.veenhuizen@han.nl Netherlands
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Project partner Touraine Vallée de l’Indre opens Hydrogen fuelling station

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This Saturday the 21st of September 2019, our project partner Communauté de Communes Touraine Vallée de l’Indre opened their first Hydrogen refuelling station in Sorigny. The new station, capable of distributing up to 20 kg of hydrogen a day at 350 bars pressure, will mainly serve the 10 light duty fuel cell vehicles already in operation. Though the station will not be used to refuel the Hector garbage truck, the opening on Saturday marked another step into a hydrogen fuelled future of mobility for the region. Read More

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Downloads

Launch of the HECTOR Project
HECTOR Brochure
HECTOR Newsletter No1: Aug 2020.pdf
HECTOR Newsletter No2: Dec 2020.pdf
HECTOR Newsletter No3: Feb 2023
HECTOR Newsletter No4: Nov 2023.pdf
Final Conference - HECTOR Overview.pdf
Final Conference - Aberdeen City Council.pdf
Final Conference - Municipality of Groningen.pdf
Final Conference - Prezero_Arnhem.pdf
Final Conference - Municipality of Duisburg.pdf
Final Conference - AGR_Herten.pdf
Final Conference - CCTVI_Touraine.pdf
Final Conference - ARP GAN_Brussels.pdf
Final Conference - Data Analysis_HAN.pdf
Final Conference Operational Handbook Overview_Cenex.pdf
Final Conference - REVIVE Overview.pdf
Data Analysis Report.pdf
Hector Operational Handbook: Trial Deployment of Hydrogen Waste Trucks
2019

2019/05/28 – Waste Management World – ‘HECTOR Project to Demonstrate Hydrogen Fuel Cell Refuse Collection Vehicles’ - by Ben Messenger

https://waste-management-world.com/a/hector-project-to-demonstrate-hydrogen-fuel-cell-refuse-collection-vehicles

 

2019/05/30 – Fuel Cells Bulletin – ‘HECTOR Project to Demonstrate Fuel Cells in Garbage Trucks Fleets’

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464285919301841

 

2019/05/30 - FuelCellsWorks – ‘HECTOR Project Launches to Demonstrate the Benefits of Hydrogen Fuel Cell technology to Decarbonise Garbage Truck Fleets’ - by FuelCellsWorks

https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/hector-project-launches-to-demonstrate-the-benefits-of-hydrogen-fuel-cell-technology-to-decarbonise-garbage-truck-fleets/

 

2019/05/30 - Hydrogen Fuel news – ‘Hydrogen garbage trucks to be tested in North West Europe’

http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/hydrogen-garbage-trucks-to-be-tested-in-north-west-europe/8537613/

 

2019/05/30 – Gasworld – ‘HECTOR project launches to deploy fuel cell garbage trucks’ – by Molly Burgess

https://www.gasworld.com/hector-project-launches-/2017264.article

 

2019/06/08 – Info Tours – ‘Sorigny va tester un camion poubelle à hydrogène’

http://www.info-tours.fr/articles/indre-et-loire/2019/06/08/11174/sorigny-va-tester-un-camion-poubelle-a-hydrogene/

 

2019/06/19 – Duurzaam Actueel – ‘Huisvuilwagen op waterstof in regio Arnhem Nijmegen’

https://duurzaam-actueel.nl/huisvuilwagen-op-waterstof-in-regio-arnhem-nijmegen/

 

2019/06/19 – Transport Milieu – ‘Regio Arnhem-Nijmegen krijgt Scania huisvuiltruck op waterstof’

https://transportenmilieu.nl/nieuwsarchief/item/regio-arnhem-nijmegen-krijgt-scania-huisvuiltruck-op-waterstof

 

2019/07/09 – RP Online – ‘WBD testen Brennstoffzellen-Müllwagen

https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duisburg/duisburger-wirtschaftsbetriebe-testen-brennstoffzellen-muellwagen_aid-41813425

 

2019/07/12 – Flottes Automobiles – ‘Mobilité hydrogène : les projets se concrétisent dans les territoires’ – by Manon Lamoureux

https://www.flotauto.com/mobilite-hydrogene-projets-territoires-20190712.html

 

2019/08/27 – EUWID Recycling und Entsorgung Nr 35.2019 – „AGR: Wasserstoffbetriebenes Sammelfahrzeug im jahr 2020“

 

2019/09/18 – Westdeutsche Allgemeine WAZ – “Muellwagen, die quasi mit Muell fahren“ – by Frank Bergmannshoff

 

2019/09/21 - Hydrogen Today – “Touraine Vallée de l’Indre inaugure sa station H2” - by Laurent Meillaud

https://hydrogentoday.info/news/5826

 

2019/11/10 – Haltner Zeitung –  "Dieser LKW faehrt bald mit Wasserstoff durch die Region“ – Falko Bastos

https://www.halternerzeitung.de/dorsten/lkw-faehrt-bald-mit-wasserstoff-durch-region-plus-1468991.html?overlay_registration=true&newreg=true

2020

Duisburg was Germany's first municipality to use a hydrogen-powered waste truck.

WBD Launch 2nd December 2020

2021

2022

AGR HECTOR Truck

Converted hydrogen fuel cell refuse vehicle on trial in Ruhr region a part of HECTOR

 

AGR receives first hydrogen-powered waste collection truck, which features an Allison fully automatic transmission, for testing in daily operation 

2023

European projects REVIVE and HECTOR pioneer the use of hydrogen refuse trucks in Groningen

HECTOR and REVIVE projects cooperation

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