Title
Transformation towards a carbon-neutral residential community with hydrogen economy and advanced energy management strategies
Author
He, Yingdong (University of California; Hunan University)
Zhou, Yuekuan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Yuan, Jing (University of California)
Liu, Zhengxuan (TU Delft Housing Quality and Process Innovation; Hunan University)
Wang, Zhe (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Zhang, Guoqiang (Hunan University)
Date
2021
Abstract
Cleaner power production, distributed renewable generation, building-vehicle integration, hydrogen storage and associated infrastructures are promising for transformation towards a carbon–neutral community, whereas the academia provides limited information through integrated solutions, like intermittent renewable integration, hydrogen sharing network, smart operation on electrolyzer and fuel cell, seasonal hydrogen storage and advanced heat recovery. This study proposes a hybrid electricity-hydrogen sharing system in California, United States, with synergistic electric, thermal and hydrogen interactions, including low-rise houses, rooftop photovoltaic panels, hydrogen vehicles, a hydrogen station, micro and utility power grid and hydrogen pipelines. Advanced energy management strategies were proposed to enhance energy flexibility and grid stability. Besides, simulation-based optimizations on smart power flows of vehicle-to-grid interaction and electrolyzer are conducted for further seasonal grid stability and annual cost saving. The obtained results indicate that, the green renewable-to-hydrogen can effectively reduce reliance on pipelines delivered hydrogen, and the hydrogen station is effective to address security concerns of high-pressure hydrogen and improve participators’ acceptance. Microgrid peer-to-peer sharing can improve hydrogen system efficiency under idling modes. Furthermore, the integrated system can reduce the annual net hydrogen consumption in transportation from 127.0 to 1.2 kg/vehicle. The smart operation (minimum input power of electrolyzer and fuel cell at 65 and 80 kW) can reduce the maximum mean hourly grid power to 78.2 kW by 24.2% and the annual energy cost to 1228.5 $/household by 38.9%. The proposed district hydrogen-based community framework can provide cutting-edge techno-economic guidelines for carbon-neutral transition with district peer-to-peer energy sharing, zero-energy buildings, hydrogen-based transportations together with smart strategies for high energy flexibility.
Subject
Distributed hydrogen infrastructure
Distributed renewable energy sharing
Flexible energy management strategy
Hydrogen energy storage and economy
Solar energy
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114834
Embargo date
2022-04-09
ISSN
0196-8904
Source
Energy Conversion and Management, 249
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
journal article
Rights
© 2021 Yingdong He, Yuekuan Zhou, Jing Yuan, Zhengxuan Liu, Zhe Wang, Guoqiang Zhang