Photovoltaic Array Sizing for PV-Electrolyzer

Authors: Panhathai Buasri

Abstract:

Hydrogen that used as fuel in fuel cell vehicles can be produced from renewable sources such as wind, solar, and hydro technologies. PV-electrolyzer is one of the promising methods to produce hydrogen with zero pollution emission. Hydrogen production from a PV-electrolyzer system depends on the efficiency of the electrolyzer and photovoltaic array, and sun irradiance at that site. In this study, the amount of hydrogen is obtained using mathematical equations for difference driving distance and sun peak hours. The results show that the minimum of 99 PV modules are used to generate 1.75 kgH2 per day for two vehicles.

Keywords: About four key words or phrases in alphabetical order, separated by commas.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1330329

References:

[1] M. Little, M.Thomson, and D. Infield, "Power converters for use in stand -alone renewable energy systems incorporating hydrogen storage", IEEE AIS-08, vol. 1(20), pp. 644-648, April 2002.
[2] Di Wu, Sheldon S. Williamson, " A novel design and feasibility analysis of a fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric vehicle", IEEE VPPC, Vol. 1, pp. 601-605, September 2008.
[3] Diego M. Robalino, Ganapathy Kumar, L.O. Uzoechi, U.C. Chukwu, and Satish M. Mahajan, "Design of a docking station for solar charged electric and fuel cell cehicles", Int. conference Clean Electrical Power, pp. 655-660, 2009
[4] T. M. Maloney,"An electrolysis-based pathway towards hydrogen fueling-, IEEE conf. Vehicle Power and Propulsion, pp. 652-656,2005
[5] Magnus Korpas, Ame T. Holen, "Operation planning of hydrogen storage connected to wind power operating in a power market", IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion, Vol. 21(3), September 2006
[6] T. L.Gibson, N. A. Kelly, "Predicting efficeincy of solar powered hydrogen generation using photo electrolysis devices", IEEE VPPC, Vol. 1, pp. 601-605, September 2008.
[7] S. S. Deshmukh, R. Boehm, "Mathematical modeling of solar-hydrogen system for residential applications", Int. Solar Energy Conf., ASME, July 2006
[8] Z. Salameh, Fundametal of renewable energy, 1st ed., 2001, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA
[9] Stan Gibilisco, Alternative Energy DeMYSTiFied, 1st Ed., McGrawHill, New York, 2007
[10] Ulf Bossel, The physics if the hydrogen economy, the european Fuel cell News, Vol.10(2), July 2003 pp1-16)
[11] S. Dehghan, B. Kiani, A. Kazemi, A. Parizad, "Optimal sizing of a hybrid wind/PV plant considering reliability indices", World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology,Vol. 56, pp. 527-535, 2009
[12] Gene Connelly, Hydrogen infrastructure for fueling distributed resources, Washington