Hydrogen Infrastructure for Energy Applications: Production, Storage, Distribution and Safety

Hydrogen Infrastructure for Energy Applications examines methodologies, new models and innovative strategies for the optimization and the optimal control of hydrogen logistic chain, with particular focus on a network of integrated facilities, sources of production, storage systems, infrastructures, and delivery process to the end users through hydrogen refueling stations, industrial and commercial market. The book discusses the main motivations and criteria behind the adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier or future fuel alternative. It presents the current research in hydrogen production processes, especially from renewable energy sources, as well as storage and distribution. It also reviews methods to model hydrogen demand uncertainties and challenges for the design of the future hydrogen supply chain. The authors go on to explore the network planning of hydrogen infrastructures and the safety and risk issues in hydrogen logistics and their future expectations. Energy engineering professionals, researchers and graduate students will find this a helpful resource to understand the methodologies used to assess the feasibility for developing hydrogen supply chains, in particular hydrogen infrastructure and safety. Energy analysts and government agents can benefit from its detailed discussion of hydrogen energy applicability. Describes in detail the current state of the available approaches for the planning and modelling of the hydrogen infrastructureDiscusses the safety issues related to hydrogen in different components of its logistic chain and the methodological approach to evaluate risks that results from hydrogen accidents, including a mathematical model to assess the hazard and consequences of an accident scenario of hydrogen in pipelinesProposes a decision support system for the hydrogen energy exploitation, focusing on some specific planning aspects, such as selection of locations with high hydrogen production mainly based on the use of solar and wind energiesPresents a short-term scenario of hydrogen distribution for automotive use, with a concrete, detailed, operative planning for a network of refueling service stations for the hydrogen economy INDICE: 1. An Overview of Hydrogen Economy 2. Hydrogen production and current technologies 3. Hydrogen demand side 4. Hydrogen storage and distribution: implementation scenarios 5. Deployment of a hydrogen supply chain 6. Network planning of hydrogen supply chain 7. Hydrogen logistics: safety and risks issues 8. Future expectations of hydrogen logistics

• ISBN: 978-0-12-812036-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés