Publication detail

The Energy Efficiency of a Hydrogen Circuit in a Smart Grid

MARCOŇ, P. VESELÝ, I. ZEZULKA, F. ROUBAL, Z. SZABÓ, Z.

Original Title

The Energy Efficiency of a Hydrogen Circuit in a Smart Grid

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper discusses a hydrogen circuit embedded in an Electric energy network. The circuit is instrumental for electrical energy storage whenever all the batteries (accumulators) within the network are charged, and a constant energy surplus exists in the network. The generated surplus energy is then converted to hydrogen, which is stored in a metal hydride storage case. At times of low energy status in the network, namely when the batteries are discharged and the applied generators (such as photovoltaic, wind, or microhydro power plants) cannot supply energy, a fuel cell is activated. The cell's operation principle is basically the reverse of that for an electrolytic cell (electrolyser), meaning that the cell consumes the hydrogen from the metal hydride storage to produce electric energy; this energy is subsequently stored in batteries (accumulators) connected to the smart grid. In the given context, the article aims to describe the relevant experiment and to present the algorithm to calculate energy efficiency, a most significant parameter of the entire hydrogen circuit.

Keywords

energy efficiency,fuel cell, hydrogen, renewable energy sources, smart grid, smart metering

Authors

MARCOŇ, P.; VESELÝ, I.; ZEZULKA, F.; ROUBAL, Z.; SZABÓ, Z.

RIV year

2015

Released

1. 10. 2015

Publisher

IFAC-PapersOnLine (ELSEVIER)

ISBN

2405-8963

Periodical

IFAC-PapersOnLine (ELSEVIER)

Year of study

48

Number

4

State

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Pages from

386

Pages to

391

Pages count

6

URL

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240589631500840X

BibTex

@article{BUT117186,
  author="Petr {Marcoň} and Ivo {Veselý} and František {Zezulka} and Zdeněk {Roubal} and Zoltán {Szabó}",
  title="The Energy Efficiency of a Hydrogen Circuit in a Smart Grid",
  journal="IFAC-PapersOnLine (ELSEVIER)",
  year="2015",
  volume="48",
  number="4",
  pages="386--391",
  doi="10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.07.065",
  issn="2405-8963",
  url="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240589631500840X"
}