Real life demonstration plant for benchmarking hydrogen technologies Adwin Martens WaterstofNet Sydney, 13 October 2015

WaterstofNet

 Non profit organisation, started in 2009  Area:Belgium / Netherlands  Working close together with industry/government  Activities  Owner of 2 HRS, based upon green electricity  Facilitating projects with buses, garbage trucks, fork lifts, vessels, cars  Making roadmaps: H2-Mobility Belgium, roadmap Power to Gas  Representing Belgium within IEA HIA

Don Quichote  Development of a New Qualititive and Innovative concept for hydrogen out of turbine electricity  In other words:  Power to gas with different components and applications  Funded by the European JU-FCH (GA )

Don Quichote  Starting points:  800 kW solar, 1,5 MW wind  Interested enduser in the retail sector  Hydrogen combined with logistic applications and smart grid

Don Quichote  Phase 1:  Alkaline electrolyser, 30 Nm³/h, membrame compressor, storage 50 kg (450 bar), dispenser, fuelling forklifts  Phase 2:  PEM electrolyser, 30 Nm³/h, PEM fuel cell 100 kW, storage 50 kg (450 bar), forklifts and feed back electricity to the grid  Phase 3:  Electrochemical compressor, electrochemical expander

Don Quichote

Partners

Phase 1: operation since 2012

Fuelling equipment

Fluctuating demand

Phase 1: Results  Starting with 2 forklifts means limited hydrogen demand (underutilisation):  efficiencies reduced  how to define/judge availibility  Now 12 forklifts:  efficiencies higher  availibility fuelling station > 95%  Next step:  almost full loaded HRS by additional forklifts

Availability

Phase 2

Phase 2: Installed 2015

Phase 2: tests starting

Conclusions  Best learning is learning by doing  Dedicated/complementary partners are crucial  Efficiencies and availibility are relevant if nominal use  Every phase has its own dynamics, permits, issues  Contact: