TY - JOUR
T1 - From wave to jet and from jet to hydrogen
T2 - A promising hybrid system
AU - Sánchez-Dirzo, Rafael
AU - González-Huerta, Rosa G.
AU - Mendoza, Edgar
AU - Silva, Rodolfo
AU - Sandoval Pineda, Juan Manuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC.
PY - 2014/10/2
Y1 - 2014/10/2
N2 - One of the main challenges that our society must overcome in this century is that of finding alternative energy sources to fossil fuels. These, ideally, must be inexpensive, less polluting than current fuels and available for a substantial time. One promising alternative is hydrogen, which has the great advantage that it can be produced by coupling renewable energy devices with water electrolysis. Several projects devoted to connecting photovoltaic and wind systems with electrolysis devices have been successful; however, little research has been done into the coupling of ocean wave energy converters with water electrolysis. The work here proposes a basic system that stores the energy from waves in the form of hydrogen. The WEC considered is a novel design known as a Blow-Jet, which captures waves and converts them into a water jet. The performance of the Blow-Jet is found to depend more on wavelength than on wave height. The electrolyser results show, at 0.200 A and 1.88 V, that the electrolysis of water produces 0.082 Nl h-1 of hydrogen and a current efficiency (ηI) of 90.58%.
AB - One of the main challenges that our society must overcome in this century is that of finding alternative energy sources to fossil fuels. These, ideally, must be inexpensive, less polluting than current fuels and available for a substantial time. One promising alternative is hydrogen, which has the great advantage that it can be produced by coupling renewable energy devices with water electrolysis. Several projects devoted to connecting photovoltaic and wind systems with electrolysis devices have been successful; however, little research has been done into the coupling of ocean wave energy converters with water electrolysis. The work here proposes a basic system that stores the energy from waves in the form of hydrogen. The WEC considered is a novel design known as a Blow-Jet, which captures waves and converts them into a water jet. The performance of the Blow-Jet is found to depend more on wavelength than on wave height. The electrolyser results show, at 0.200 A and 1.88 V, that the electrolysis of water produces 0.082 Nl h-1 of hydrogen and a current efficiency (ηI) of 90.58%.
KW - Blow-Jet
KW - Electrolyser
KW - Energy storage systems
KW - Hydrogen production
KW - Wave power Wave energy converters
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.03.134
DO - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.03.134
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:84908075710
SN - 0360-3199
VL - 39
SP - 16628
EP - 16636
JO - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
JF - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
IS - 29
ER -