Energy management and performance analysis of an off-grid integrated hydrogen energy utilization system
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024

In integrated hydrogen energy utilization systems, due to the low efficiency of hydrogen/electricity conversion, coordination of energy management and efficient waste heat recovery is required to optimize performance. To address this challenge, this paper presents a comprehensive and sophisticated modeling and energy management strategy to enhance the off-grid energy utilization rate while prolonging the main components' lifetime. The developed model incorporates multiphase flow and heat transport balance for electricity and heat production, enabling a highly accurate representation of real-world behaviors of the system. The proposed off-grid operation strategy is complemented by a designed heat recovery scheme, ensuring the use of energy resources and waste heat. In addition, the proposed energy management strategy monitors the real-time status of each subsystem, actively reducing the number of harmful start-stop cycles of the hydrogen production system, thereby mitigating short-term power impacts and delaying its aging. Specifically, the voltage degradation of the reduction cell is reduced from 4.67 mV to 4.48 mV, the energy utilization rate is increased from 47.6 % to 53.9 %, and the energy efficiency of fuel cells significantly increases from 53.6 % to 78.1 %.

Proton exchange membrane electrolyzer

Integrated hydrogen energy utilization system

Off-grid system

Proton exchange membrane fuel cell

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Energy Conversion and Management

0196-8904 (ISSN)

Vol. 299 art. nr 117871

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Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Energiteknik

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DOI

10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117871

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