A novel conceptual design of modularised offshore green hydrogen system

• Published in: Volume 8: Ocean Renewable Energy
• Main Authors: Zhang, Ming, Yuan, Zhiming, Tao, Longbin, Shi, Weichao
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: ASME 2023
• Subjects: Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering; Production of electric energy or power; Arctic
• Online Access: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/88352/; https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/88352/1/Zhang-etal-OMAE2023-A-novel-conceptual-design-of-modularised-offshore.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2023-101527

As a signatory to the Paris Agreement, the UK is committed to contribute efforts to prevent global temperature increase. The UK set its policies and proposals to meet zero net strategy by 2050. Offshore green hydrogen is one promising approach to transfer offshore wind energy to onshore demand areas due to its clean and high-power density. The UK is accelerating towards offshore green hydrogen and has made the price of green hydrogen competitive in the marketplace. The bottleneck of offshore green hydrogen system (OGHS) is the cost of scaling up hydrogen production in the current stage. Innovate designs of hydrogen production system may bring breakthrough to the cost when scaling up the OGHS. This study proposed a centralised OGHS which integrates with modularised production, storage, and offloading units using electricity coming from offshore wind farms. The paper offers an overview of the current situation and development of hydrogen platform and offshore wind farm for supporting the design of offshore platform as well as highlights the key features of technologies used by the different components of the OGHS, through a thorough literature review, including state-of-the-art technical reports and journal papers. A conceptual design of the proposed modularised OGHS is illustrated with a recommendation of site selection. Equipment layout of the OGHS distributed on a floating supporting structure is designed based on a case study of a 200-MW floating wind farm. Stability of the OGHS floating platform is analysed to verify safety of the in the case study, and linear hydrodynamics analysis is simulated based on linear potential theory.