Extended Load Flexibility of Utility-Scale P2H Plants: Optimal Production Scheduling Considering Dynamic Thermal and HTO Impurity Effects
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| author | Qiu, Yiwei Zhou, Buxiang Zang, Tianlei Zhou, Yi Chen, Shi Qi, Ruomei Li, Jiarong Lin, Jin |
| author_facet | Qiu, Yiwei Zhou, Buxiang Zang, Tianlei Zhou, Yi Chen, Shi Qi, Ruomei Li, Jiarong Lin, Jin |
| contents | In the conversion toward a clear and sustainable energy system, the flexibility of power-to-hydrogen (P2H) production enables the admittance of volatile renewable energies on a utility scale and provides the connected electrical power system with ancillary services. To extend the load flexibility and thus improve the profitability of green hydrogen production, this paper presents an optimal production scheduling approach for utility-scale P2H plants composed of multiple alkaline electrolyzers. Unlike existing works, this work discards the conservative constant steady-state constraints and first leverages the dynamic thermal and hydrogen-to-oxygen (HTO) impurity crossover processes of electrolyzers. Doing this optimizes their effects on the loading range and energy conversion efficiency, therefore improving the load flexibility of P2H production. The proposed multiphysics-aware scheduling model is formulated as mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). It coordinates the electrolyzers' operation state transitions and load allocation subject to comprehensive thermodynamic and mass transfer constraints. A decomposition-based solution method, SDM-GS-ALM, is followingly adopted to address the scalability issue for scheduling large-scale P2H plants composed of tens of electrolyzers. With an experiment-verified dynamic electrolyzer model, case studies up to 22 electrolyzers show that the proposed method remarkably improves the hydrogen output and profit of P2H production powered by either solar or wind energy compared to the existing scheduling approach. |
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| spellingShingle | Extended Load Flexibility of Utility-Scale P2H Plants: Optimal Production Scheduling Considering Dynamic Thermal and HTO Impurity Effects Qiu, Yiwei Zhou, Buxiang Zang, Tianlei Zhou, Yi Chen, Shi Qi, Ruomei Li, Jiarong Lin, Jin Optimization and Control Systems and Control In the conversion toward a clear and sustainable energy system, the flexibility of power-to-hydrogen (P2H) production enables the admittance of volatile renewable energies on a utility scale and provides the connected electrical power system with ancillary services. To extend the load flexibility and thus improve the profitability of green hydrogen production, this paper presents an optimal production scheduling approach for utility-scale P2H plants composed of multiple alkaline electrolyzers. Unlike existing works, this work discards the conservative constant steady-state constraints and first leverages the dynamic thermal and hydrogen-to-oxygen (HTO) impurity crossover processes of electrolyzers. Doing this optimizes their effects on the loading range and energy conversion efficiency, therefore improving the load flexibility of P2H production. The proposed multiphysics-aware scheduling model is formulated as mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). It coordinates the electrolyzers' operation state transitions and load allocation subject to comprehensive thermodynamic and mass transfer constraints. A decomposition-based solution method, SDM-GS-ALM, is followingly adopted to address the scalability issue for scheduling large-scale P2H plants composed of tens of electrolyzers. With an experiment-verified dynamic electrolyzer model, case studies up to 22 electrolyzers show that the proposed method remarkably improves the hydrogen output and profit of P2H production powered by either solar or wind energy compared to the existing scheduling approach. |
| title | Extended Load Flexibility of Utility-Scale P2H Plants: Optimal Production Scheduling Considering Dynamic Thermal and HTO Impurity Effects |
| topic | Optimization and Control Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12242 |