Informational seminar:

The industrial implementation of green hydrogen faces challenges, particularly in managing the intermittency of renewable electricity in the design and operation of hydrogen plants. Accurate sizing of electrolysers, hydrogen storage and renewable power plants is critical to optimal plant scheduling. When making investment decisions, some operational simplifications are often introduced. These simplifications may include the assumption of constant efficiency or an infinitely elastic market for hydrogen, neglecting specific demand considerations and storage management. In this paper we have developed an investment-operational optimisation model for the design of hydrogen production plants. In particular, we analyse the effect of different demand profiles and non-linearities to answer the following questions:
- How does the optimal design of a hydrogen production plant vary when non-linearities are modelled?
- What are the trade-offs between the size of different plant components?
- How does the optimal design of a hydrogen production plant vary with different demand profiles?
- Under what conditions (e.g. different demand profiles) can oversimplification lead to an inadequate result?