CanDan1.5 - Analysis of power balancing with fuel cells and hydrogen production plants

The CanDan1.5 project is part of the Canadian/Danish CanDan collaboration and the purpose is to: - Analyze state-of-the-art and future prospects for hydrogen & fuel cell power balancing concepts & technologies and determine which commercial targets that the technologies/concepts are to satisfy in order to be viable and usable in the energy system.
Project description

The CanDan1.5 project is part of the Canadian/Danish CanDan collaboration and the purpose is to: - Analyze state-of-the-art and future prospects for hydrogen & fuel cell power balancing concepts & technologies and determine which commercial targets that the technologies/concepts are to satisfy in order to be commercially viable and usable in the energy system. - Develop scenarios & conduct impact analysis of hydrogen fuel cell power balancing concepts/technologies in the Danish energy system. - Conduct balancing power simulation and field tests with CanDan1 fuel cell units and hydrogen production plant in the Danish Energy System through development of necessary control systems. Balanc-ing opportunities of demonstration units in the EFP applying CanDan2 large scale demonstration project will also be investigated. - Evaluation and description of business cases for various power balancing opportunities with fuel cells and hydrogen production plants. - Recommendations for further development and testing efforts of fuel cells and hydrogen production plants will be developed, reported and disseminated

Results
As electricity production from fluctuating wind power increases in many areas of the world so does the need to hybridise the electric grid and to store electric energy at times with electric surplus for use in times with less wind. Future Solid Oxide Electrolyser Cells can, combined with multistage compressors and heat utilisation, obtain considerably higher grid-to-tank efficiencies than today. Future hydrogen fuel cell vehicles with plug-in batteries for a battery electric range of app. 60 km have high grid-to-wheels efficiencies and driving ranges that meet the requirements of today's vehicles.

Key figures

Period:
2008 - 2009
Funding year:
2008
Own financial contribution:
0.46 mio. DKK
Grant:
1.03 mio. DKK
Funding rate:
69 %
Project budget:
1.49 mio. DKK

Category

Oprindelig title
CanDan1.5 - Analyse af elbalancering med brændselsceller og hydrogen produktionsanlæg
Programme
ForskEL
Case no.
10110

Participants

NEL Hydrogen (Main Responsible)

Contact

Kontakperson
Sloth, Mikael
Comtact information
H2 Logic A/S
Tjelevej 42
DK-7400 Herning
www.h2logic.com
Tlf.: 96275600
 

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