Lab-Scale Investigation of the Integrated Backup/Storage System for Wind Turbines Using Alkaline Electrolyzer

The depletion of fossil fuel sources has encouraged the authorities to use renewable resources such as wind energy to generate electricity. A backup/storage system can improve the performance of wind turbines, due to fluctuations in power demand. The novelty of this study is to utilize a hybrid syst...

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Main Authors: Daneshgar, S. (Author), Pourrahmani, H. (Author), Van herle, J. (Author), Zahedi, R. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI 2023
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245 1 0 |a Lab-Scale Investigation of the Integrated Backup/Storage System for Wind Turbines Using Alkaline Electrolyzer 
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520 3 |a The depletion of fossil fuel sources has encouraged the authorities to use renewable resources such as wind energy to generate electricity. A backup/storage system can improve the performance of wind turbines, due to fluctuations in power demand. The novelty of this study is to utilize a hybrid system for a wind farm, using the excess electricity generated by the wind turbines to produce hydrogen in an alkaline electrolyzer (AEL). The hydrogen storage tank stores the produced hydrogen and provides hydrogen to the proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) to generate electricity once the power demand is higher than the electricity generated by the wind turbines. The goal of this study is to use the wind profile of a region in Iran, namely the Cohen region, to analyze the performance of the suggested integrated system on a micro scale. The output results of this study can be used as a case study for construction in the future, based on the exact specification of NTK300 wind turbines. The results indicate that, with the minimum power supply of 30 kW from the wind turbines on a lab scale, the generated power by the PEMFC will be 1008 W, while the maximum generated hydrogen will be 304 mL/h. © 2023 by the authors. 
650 0 4 |a Alkaline electrolyze 
650 0 4 |a alkaline electrolyzer (AEL) 
650 0 4 |a Alkalines 
650 0 4 |a Backup storages 
650 0 4 |a Electric power utilization 
650 0 4 |a Electrolytic cells 
650 0 4 |a Electrolyzers 
650 0 4 |a Fossil fuels 
650 0 4 |a hybrid system 
650 0 4 |a Hybrid systems 
650 0 4 |a Hydrogen storage 
650 0 4 |a power curve 
650 0 4 |a Power curves 
650 0 4 |a power demand 
650 0 4 |a Power demands 
650 0 4 |a Power generation 
650 0 4 |a Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) 
650 0 4 |a Proton-exchange membrane fuel cell 
650 0 4 |a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) 
650 0 4 |a Proton-exchange membranes fuel cells 
650 0 4 |a Renewable resource 
650 0 4 |a renewable resources 
650 0 4 |a Storage systems 
650 0 4 |a Wind power 
650 0 4 |a Wind turbines 
700 1 0 |a Daneshgar, S.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Pourrahmani, H.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Van herle, J.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Zahedi, R.  |e author 
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