Coordinated Control of a Wind-Methanol-Fuel Cell System with Hydrogen Storage

Tiejiang Yuan, Qingxi Duan, Xiangping Chen*, Xufeng Yuan, Wenping Cao, Juan Hu, Quanmin Zhu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents a wind-methanol-fuel cell system with hydrogen storage. It can manage various energy flow to provide stable wind power supply, produce constant methanol, and reduce CO2 emissions. Firstly, this study establishes the theoretical basis and formulation algorithms. And then, computational experiments are developed with MATLAB/Simulink (R2016a, MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA). Real data are used to fit the developed models in the study. From the test results, the developed system can generate maximum electricity whilst maintaining a stable production of methanol with the aid of a hybrid energy storage system (HESS). A sophisticated control scheme is also developed to coordinate these actions to achieve satisfactory system performance.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2053
Number of pages21
JournalEnergies
Volume10
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Dec 2017

Bibliographical note

© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC
51367018, 51321005) and Xinjiang Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (2014711005)

Keywords

  • coordinated control
  • energy storage
  • fuel cell
  • hydrogen
  • methanol production
  • wind power

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