Optimized Configuration and Operating Plan for Hydrogen Refueling Station with On-Site Electrolytic Production

Jing Sun, Yonggang Peng, Di Lu, Xiaofeng Chen, Weifeng Xu, Liguo Weng and Jun Wu
Additional contact information
Jing Sun: College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Yonggang Peng: College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Di Lu: Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou 310000, China
Xiaofeng Chen: Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou 310000, China
Weifeng Xu: State Grid Zhejiang Hangzhou Xiaoshan Power Supply Corporation, Hangzhou 311200, China
Liguo Weng: State Grid Zhejiang Hangzhou Xiaoshan Power Supply Corporation, Hangzhou 311200, China
Jun Wu: State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Research Institute, Hangzhou 310014, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 7, 1-20

Abstract: Hydrogen refueling stations (HRSs) are critical for the popularity of hydrogen vehicles (fuel cell electric vehicles—FCEVs). However, due to high installation investment and operating costs, the proliferation of HRSs is difficult. This paper studies HRSs with on-site electrolytic production and hydrogen storage devices and proposes an optimization method to minimize the total costs including both installation investment and operating costs (OPT-ISL method). Moreover, to acquire the optimization constraints of hydrogen demand, this paper creatively develops a refueling behavior simulation method for different kinds of FCEVs and proposes a hydrogen-demand estimation model to forecast the demand with hourly intervals for HRS. The Jensen–Shannon divergence is applied to verify the accuracy of the hydrogen-demand estimation. The result: 0.029 is much smaller than that of the estimation method in reference. Based on the estimation results and peak-valley prices of electricity from the grid, a daily hydrogen generation plan is obtained, as well as the optimal capacities of electrolyzers and storage devices. As for the whole costs, compared with previous configuration methods that only consider investment costs or operating costs, the proposed OPT-ISL method has the least, 8.1 and 10.5% less, respectively. Moreover, the proposed OPT-ISL method shortens the break-even time for HRS from 11.1 years to 7.8 years, a decrease of 29.7%, so that the HRS could recover its costs in less time.

Keywords: optimal configuration; hydrogen demand; refueling behavior; on-site electrolytic production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/7/2348/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/7/2348/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:7:p:2348-:d:777913

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().