Hydrogen Supply Chain Planning with Flexible Transmission and Storage Scheduling

Guannan He; Dharik S. Mallapragada; Abhishek Bose; Clara F. Heuberger; Emre Gençer

doi:10.1109/TSTE.2021.3064015

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Hydrogen Supply Chain Planning with Flexible Transmission and Storage Scheduling

arXiv:2008.07611 · doi:10.1109/TSTE.2021.3064015

Abstract

Hydrogen is becoming an increasingly appealing energy carrier, as the costs of renewable energy generation and water electrolysis continue to decline. Developing modelling and decision tools for the H $_{2}$ supply chain that fully capture the flexibility of various resources is essential to understanding the overall cost-competitiveness of H $_{2}$ use. To address this need, we have developed a H $_{2}$ supply chain planning model that determines the least-cost mix of H $_{2}$ generation, storage, transmission, and compression facilities to meet H $_{2}$ demands and is coupled with power systems through electricity prices. We incorporate flexible scheduling for H $_{2}$ trucks and pipeline, allowing them to serve as both H $_{2}$ transmission and storage resources to shift H $_{2}$ demand/production across space and time. The case study results in the U.S. Northeast indicate that the proposed framework for flexible scheduling of H $_{2}$ transmission and storage resources is critical not only to cost minimization but also to the choice of H $_{2}$ production pathways between electrolyzer and centralized natural-gas-based production facilities. Trucks as mobile storage could make electrolyzer more competitive by providing extra spatiotemporal flexibility to respond to the electricity price variability while meeting H $_{2}$ demands. The proposed model also provides a reasonable trade-off between modeling accuracy and solution times.

arXiv commentMain manuscript: 8 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables; Supporting information: 6 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables

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