Process and arrangement for filling high pressure gas containers using a filling tube

Abstract: A process, an arrangement and a gas supply station for filling high pressure gas containers include supplying a liquefied or solidified first gas (2) from a gas supply station (13) through a thermally isolated filling tube (14) with a moveable tube head (15) to the high pressure gas container (1); as well as a process of batch filling of high pressure gas containers (1) with gas, wherein multiple gas containers (1) are cooled in parallel, which are filled sequentially using the process. The invention allows for fast, economical, reliable, reproducible and precise filling of high pressure gas containers, wherein a number of the known conventional devices that are not particularly suited for high pressure respectively low temperature appliances may still be used. (end of abstract)