International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol.38, No.6, 2641-2655, 2013
A hybrid power plant (Solar-Wind-Hydrogen) model based in artificial intelligence for a remote-housing application in Mexico
World fossil fuel reserve is expected to be exhausted in coming few decades. Therefore, the decentralization of energy production requires the design and integration of different energy sources and conversion technologies to meet the power demand for single remote housing applications in a sustainable way under various weather conditions. This work focuses on the integration of photovoltaic (PV) system, micro-wind turbine (WT), Polymeric Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEM-FC) stack and PEM water electrolyzer (PEM-WE), for a sustained power generation system (2.5 kW). The main contribution of this work is the hybridization of alternate energy sources with the hydrogen conversion systems using mid-term and short-term storage models based in artificial intelligence techniques built from experimental data (measurements obtained from the site of interest), this models allow to obtain better accuracy in performance prediction (PVMSE = 8.4%, PEM-FCMSE = 2.4%, PEM-WEMSE = 1.96%, GSR(MSE) = 7.9%, WTMSE = 14%) with a practical design and dynamic under intelligent control strategies to build an autonomous system. Copyright (C) 2012, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:Artificial intelligence;Electrolyzer;Fuel cell;Hybrid power generation plant;Photovoltaic;Wind turbine