Uncertainty quantification in a hydrogen production system based on the solar hybrid sulfur process

Water splitting through the Hybrid Sulfur (HyS) process powered by solar energy is a promising pathway to the production of green hydrogen. The main challenges to the development of this process are related to the intrinsic variability of the solar resource, which, besides requiring the deployment o...

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Published in:International journal of hydrogen energy 2020-05, Vol.45 (29), p.14679-14695
Main Authors: Venturin, M., Turchetti, L., Liberatore, R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Hybrid – Sulfur process
Hydrogen
Polynomial chaos expansion
Sensitivity analysis
Solar energy
Uncertainty quantification
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Summary:Water splitting through the Hybrid Sulfur (HyS) process powered by solar energy is a promising pathway to the production of green hydrogen. The main challenges to the development of this process are related to the intrinsic variability of the solar resource, which, besides requiring the deployment of innovative process solutions, introduces significant elements of uncertainty in the plant design. In this paper, the Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE) method is applied for the uncertainty quantification (UQ) in this kind of systems. In particular, a forward analysis dealing with the evaluation of the output probability distributions is performed. This is carried out in terms of the input probability distributions, and the analysis is focused on how uncertainty is propagated from the input to the output. Moreover, a comparison between the PCE method and the standard Monte Carlo analysis (using the Latin Hypercube Sampling method) is performed. The obtained results show the advantage of the PCE approach in terms of convergence rate and the number of function evaluations. Finally, a sensitivity analysis through Sobol’ indices has been carried out, which highlighted the influence of each variation in the input on the output. •Hydrogen production through the HyS process power by solar energy is analyzed.•CSP, PV, S burner and grid power combination to supply closed and open HyS process.•Irradiance, heat duty and capacity, solar efficiencies uncertainties are treated.•Uncertainty quantification using PCE method of the output variables is treated.•Sensitivity analysis through Sobol's indices is carried out.
ISSN:0360-3199
1879-3487
DOI:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.03.200