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Article

Electric Load Influence on Performances of a Composite Plant for Hydrogen Production from RES and its Conversion in Electricity

by
Rosario Carbone
1,
Concettina Marino
2,*,
Antonino Nucara
2,
Maria Francesca Panzera
2 and
Matilde Pietrafesa
2
1
Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructures and Sustainable Energy, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
2
Department of Civil, Energetic, Environmental and Material Engineering, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2019, 11(22), 6362; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226362
Submission received: 9 October 2019 / Revised: 7 November 2019 / Accepted: 7 November 2019 / Published: 13 November 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards Sustainable Engineering: New Technologies and Methodologies)
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Abstract

The analysis here presented investigates the influence of electrical load on the operational performances of a plant for hydrogen production from solar energy and its conversion in electricity via a fuel cell. The plant is an actual one, currently under construction, in Reggio Calabria (Italy), at the site of the Mediterranean university campus; it is composed of a Renewable Energy Source (RES) section (photovoltaic panels), a hydrogen production section, and a fuel cell power section feeding the electrical energy demand of the load. Two different load configurations have been analysed and simulations have been carried out through HomerTM simulation code. Results allow interesting conclusions regarding the plant operation to be drawn. The study could have a remarkable role in supporting further research activities aimed at the assessment of the optimal configuration of this type of pioneering plants, designed for feeding electrical loads, possibly, in a self-sufficient way.
Keywords: hydrogen production; photovoltaic systems; fuel cell; electrical load hydrogen production; photovoltaic systems; fuel cell; electrical load

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Carbone, R.; Marino, C.; Nucara, A.; Panzera, M.F.; Pietrafesa, M. Electric Load Influence on Performances of a Composite Plant for Hydrogen Production from RES and its Conversion in Electricity. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6362. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226362

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Carbone R, Marino C, Nucara A, Panzera MF, Pietrafesa M. Electric Load Influence on Performances of a Composite Plant for Hydrogen Production from RES and its Conversion in Electricity. Sustainability. 2019; 11(22):6362. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226362

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Carbone, Rosario, Concettina Marino, Antonino Nucara, Maria Francesca Panzera, and Matilde Pietrafesa. 2019. "Electric Load Influence on Performances of a Composite Plant for Hydrogen Production from RES and its Conversion in Electricity" Sustainability 11, no. 22: 6362. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226362

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Carbone, R., Marino, C., Nucara, A., Panzera, M. F., & Pietrafesa, M. (2019). Electric Load Influence on Performances of a Composite Plant for Hydrogen Production from RES and its Conversion in Electricity. Sustainability, 11(22), 6362. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226362

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