Green hydrogen; Industry facility; Multi-energy systems; Price-responsive flexibility; PV generation
Abstract :
[en] Carbon neutrality is one of the main goals in current power system planning and operation. Many different actions and solutions are presented and implemented so far, incorporating renewable energy sources at all levels of the system. With the raising prices of natural gas and its negative impact on the environment, particularly emphasised over the past two years, new technologies and energy vectors are emerging as potential for its replacement. High importance of the hydrogen energy vector, especially in the decarbonisation of the industry sector, is being put forward due to its advantages of zero greenhouse gas emissions, its capacity for storing energy and capability to balance the production of renewable energy sources. This paper brings a detailed mathematical model of a price driven, demand responsive, multi-energy industry facility, as a logic first implementer of hydrogen technologies due to its high and multi-energy consumption nature. The systematic analyses are conducted over a set of scenarios of local production, considering different hydrogen technologies as well as range of natural gas and electricity prices. The findings of the paper conclude that hydrogen technology implementation into a realistic industrial consumers processes results in zero local emissions production, high level of autonomy and resistance from the market disturbances. When compared with classic industrial layouts, the overall CO2 footprint is reduced from around 30% to around 85%, depending on the scenario. The sensitivity analysis has proven that hydrogen layouts are comparable to natural gas layouts in terms of total costs, showing that hydrogen options result in lower cost in the range from 25% to 58%, depending on the observed scenario.
Research center :
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > FINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-organizational Digital Transformations
The work of Ivan Pavić was funded in part by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and PayPal, PEARL grant reference 13342933/Gilbert Fridgen as well as by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) – FlexBeAM Project, ref. 17742284 This work was funded by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund for the Competitiveness and Cohesion Operational Programme 2014–2020 of the Republic of Croatia under project No. KK.01.1.1.07: “Universal Communication and Control System for Industrial Facilities”.
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