Autonomous wind-hydrogen station

Abstract. This work deals with a concept for the development of the autonomous wind-hydrogen stations transforming the primary energy of wind into environment-friendly energy carrier, hydrogen, and oxygen as a by-product. 

Keywords autonomous wind-hydrogen station (AWHS), wind power station (WPS), high-pressure alkaline electrolyser (HPAE)... 

This work is devoted to the development of the concept of the autonomous wind-hydrogen stations, where the primary energy of wind is transformed to substandard electric power and, further into commercial hydrogen and oxygen by the electrolysis of desalinated water. 

According to the main idea, the autonomous wind-hydrogen station (AWHS) should be adapted to the conditions when a single consumer of the produced electric power is an electrolyser, which does not require standard stable parameters of power supply for its normal operation. To realise this idea, two main problems have to be addressed in the course of the development of the AWHS. 

The integration of the advanced wind power station and the novel high-pressure alkaline electrolyser makes it feasible to develop an efficient autonomous wind-hydrogen station (Figure 1). The station has estimated power of 200 kW, and, being operated at rated conditions, can produce 100 kg (1100 m3) of hydrogen per a day. It corresponds to... 

Principal scheme of autonomous wind-hydrogen station... 

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