Sustainable solar hydrogen production: from photoelectrochemical cells to PV-electrolyzers and back again

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 2056-2070 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Jesper Jacobsson ◽  
Viktor Fjällström ◽  
Marika Edoff ◽  
Tomas Edvinsson
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Production ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Photoelectrochemical Cells ◽  
Solar Hydrogen ◽  
Solar Hydrogen Production

A theoretical analysis of different device concepts for solar hydrogen production, demonstrating the close similarities between photoelectrochemical cells and PV-electrolyzers.

scholarly journals Photoelectrochemical cells for solar hydrogen production: Challenges and opportunities

APL Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 080901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Hsuan Chiu ◽  
Ting-Hsuan Lai ◽  
Ming-Yu Kuo ◽  
Ping-Yen Hsieh ◽  
Yung-Jung Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Production ◽  
Photoelectrochemical Cells ◽  
Solar Hydrogen ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Solar Hydrogen Production

Recent advances in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells for solar hydrogen production based on molecular components

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 760-775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ze Yu ◽  
Fei Li ◽  
Licheng Sun
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Production ◽  
Water Splitting ◽  
Photoelectrochemical Cells ◽  
Solar Hydrogen ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Solar Hydrogen Production ◽  
Molecular Components

Dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells based on molecular components represent promising approaches to generate hydrogenviasolar-driven water splitting.

scholarly journals Efficiency gains for thermally coupled solar hydrogen production in extreme cold

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Kölbach ◽  
Kira Rehfeld ◽  
Matthias M. May
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Production ◽  
Thermal Coupling ◽  
Efficiency Gains ◽  
Solar Hydrogen ◽  
World Regions ◽  
Extreme Cold ◽  
Solar Hydrogen Production

We analyse the potential of solar hydrogen production in remote and cold world regions such as Antarctica and quantify the efficiency benefits of thermal coupling.

scholarly journals Electrochemical Hydrogen Production Powered by PV/CSP Hybrid Power Plants: A Modelling Approach for Cost Optimal System Design

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3437
Author(s):  
Andreas Rosenstiel ◽  
Nathalie Monnerie ◽  
Jürgen Dersch ◽  
Martin Roeb ◽  
Robert Pitz-Paal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Production ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Solar Hydrogen ◽  
Energy System Model ◽  
Optimal System Design ◽  
Solar Hydrogen Production ◽  
Electrochemical Water Splitting ◽  
Climate Neutrality

Global trade of green hydrogen will probably become a vital factor in reaching climate neutrality. The sunbelt of the Earth has a great potential for large-scale hydrogen production. One promising pathway to solar hydrogen is to use economically priced electricity from photovoltaics (PV) for electrochemical water splitting. However, storing electricity with batteries is still expensive and without storage only a small operating capacity of electrolyser systems can be reached. Combining PV with concentrated solar power (CSP) and thermal energy storage (TES) seems a good pathway to reach more electrolyser full load hours and thereby lower levelized costs of hydrogen (LCOH). This work introduces an energy system model for finding cost-optimal designs of such PV/CSP hybrid hydrogen production plants based on a global optimization algorithm. The model includes an operational strategy which improves the interplay between PV and CSP part, allowing also to store PV surplus electricity as heat. An exemplary study for stand-alone hydrogen production with an alkaline electrolyser (AEL) system is carried out. Three different locations with different solar resources are considered, regarding the total installed costs (TIC) to obtain realistic LCOH values. The study shows that a combination of PV and CSP is an auspicious concept for large-scale solar hydrogen production, leading to lower costs than using one of the technologies on its own. For today’s PV and CSP costs, minimum levelized costs of hydrogen of 4.04 USD/kg were determined for a plant located in Ouarzazate (Morocco). Considering the foreseen decrease in PV and CSP costs until 2030, cuts the LCOH to 3.09 USD/kg while still a combination of PV and CSP is the most economic system.

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