Hydrogen from Renewable Energy
Project Summary
| Full Title: |
H2 Production Infrastructure Analysis - Task 3: Hydrogen From Renewable Energy Sources: Pathway to 10 Quads for Transportation Uses in 2030 to 2050 |
| Project ID: |
81 |
| Principal Investigator: |
Duane Myers |
| Keywords: |
Hydrogen production; renewable; hydrogen fueling |
Purpose
The purpose of the analysis was to identify feasible pathways in the 2030 to 2050 timeframe to supply 10 quads of renewable hydrogen in the US (10 quads is approximately the amount needed in 2050 to supply the entire light-duty fleet of automobiles with vehicle fuel). Availability of renewable resource as well as resulting hydrogen cost was estimated. This work supports Systems Analysis Milestone A4 (“Issue a report on the results of the infrastructure analysis for the long term technologies and requirements for the 2015 technology readiness milestone”).
Performer
| Principal Investigator: |
Duane Myers |
| Organization: | Directed Technologies, Inc. (DTI) |
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| Address: | 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 650
Arlington, VA 22201 |
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| Telephone: | 703-243-3383 |
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| Email: | Brian_James@DirectedTechnologies.com |
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Contact (If Other Than PI)
Period of Performance
| Start: |
January 1999
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| End: |
October 2003
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Project Description
| Type of Project: |
Analysis |
| Category: |
Hydrogen Fuel Pathways |
| Objectives: |
Identify a pathway for producing 10 quads of hydrogen per year for transportation uses from renewable sources in the years 2030 to 2050.
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| Technologies Considered: |
Water electrolysis, renewable resources, steam reforming, gasification, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass to hydrogen, biomass-to-electric, landfill gas, hydrogen pipelines, interstate electricity transmission, water electrolyzers, H2 filling station (compression, storage, and dispensing) |
| Methodology/Approach: |
Simulate an unregulated hydrogen market in which consumers in each state buy hydrogen generated from the least expensive available resource from any other state. Matlab model used to determine state-by-state allocation of renewable energy resources going to hydrogen. Resources allocated by iterative rounds of state H2 "purchases" of lowest cost H2 available until demand is satisfied. |
| Models Used: |
Simulate an unregulated hydrogen market in which consumers in each state buy hydrogen generated from the least expensive available resource from any other state. Matlab model used to determine state-by-state allocation of renewable energy resources going to hydrogen. Resources allocated by iterative rounds of state H2 "purchases" of lowest cost H2 available until demand is satisfied.
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| Outputs: |
Distribution of hydrogen resource usage and prices; potential hydrogen generation from biomass, solar, geothermal and wind on a state-by-state basis; cost for hydrogen from biomass, solar, geothermal and wind; cost of dispensing hydrogen from various pathways; simulation does not deliver the true cost-optimized renewable hydrogen market, it does model a realistic low-cost hydrogen supply infrastructure |
| Timeframe Studied: |
2030 - 2050 |
Products/Deliverables
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Description: FY 2003 Progress Report
Publication Title: FY 2003 Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies Program Progress Report
Article/Abstract Title: II.A.11. Hydrogen from Renewable Energy Sources: Pathway to 10 Quads for Transportation Uses in 2030 to 2050
Page number(s): II-53
Publisher: U.S. Department of Energy
Author Name(s): Myers, Duane B.; Ariff, Gregory D; Kuhn, Reed C.; James, Brian D.
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Publication Date:
November 2003
Description: Final Report: Hydrogen from Renewable Energy Sources, October 2003.
Publication Title: Final Report: Hydrogen from Renewable Energy Sources
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Publication Date:
October 2003
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Date Last Updated: 10/04/2006
