Technical Analysis of a Novel Wind-Powered Hydrogen System for Sustainable Development

Technical Analysis of a Novel Wind-Powered Hydrogen System for Sustainable Development

Mojtaba Nedaei
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/IJEOE.2021100104
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Abstract

In the current analysis, a novel hybrid energy system operating on the basis of wind and hydrogen energy is designed. The simulation-based optimization has indicated the stochastic nature of wind power technology in comparison with hydrogen power specially when being integrated with the transportation network. The multi-criteria decision-making approach in the current analysis has also suggested that, among the examined cases, the most appropriate configuration of the hybrid energy system is leading to optimum levels of wind energy production, fuel flow rate, oxygen, hydrogen utilization, and stack consumption (including air and fuel) with the equivalents of 1,700 kW, 84 lpm, 75%, 717.37 kg/m3, 140 lpm, and 48 lpm, respectively. The maximum net revenues of the entire hybrid system are estimated to be €4,470 per month. It has been concluded that a transportation network fueled by wind and hydrogen systems can lead to a reduced level of environmental footprints.
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2. Methodology

The investigation of the designed hybrid energy system is based on the mathematical analysis, simulation and optimization of a model, which consists of a transportation system (e.g. in this case, a car), vertical axis wind turbine, fuel cell and storage system. In order to optimize the performance of the hybrid system, the objective functions of the system have been considered to be design coefficients including wind turbine energy production, hydrogen production, voltage and current.

2.1. Wind Energy Production

The power harnessed by wind turbines fall under a mechanical energy category, which relies on the turbine’s power coefficient, IJEOE.2021100104.m01 and wind speed. It can therefore be expressed by the following equation:

IJEOE.2021100104.m02
(1) where P is the power output, IJEOE.2021100104.m03 is the air density, IJEOE.2021100104.m04 is radius of turbine propeller, and IJEOE.2021100104.m05 is the average wind speed. The coefficient of power (IJEOE.2021100104.m06) can be described as part of the mechanical power extracted from the overall wind energy and it is an especial characteristic for each turbine.

In addition, apart from the power output, the average wind speed can be estimated according to Equation (2):

IJEOE.2021100104.m07
(2) where IJEOE.2021100104.m08 is the number of wind turbines and n is the number for wind speed datasets (Yin et al., 2017).

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