Integrated HyVis Hydrogen Storage Industrial Facility

Technical Field of the Invention:

This invention aims to provide a solution for an integrated hydrogen storage and hydrogen fuel cell system, thereby facilitating the transition of energy sources towards a free-flowing hydrogen economy with a more efficient and smooth hydrogen storage and transportation capacity for industrial applications.

Introduction and Background

The global energy source shift is now addressing several exigent concerns. These include the underutilisation of the hydrogen economy, the necessity of both quantitative and qualitative ultimate energy sources for the energy transition, and the immediacy of enacting legislation to achieve net neutrality. Other important considerations are the quest for alternative energy sources to attain global neutrality and implementing a hydrogen economy in industries and countries according to their carbon footprint. Reducing the global carbon dioxide emissions, primarily due to exploiting carbon-based energy sources, is one of the critical motivations for adopting hydrogen. These sources, divided into industrial energy, transportation, building energy, unallocated fuel combustion, fugitive energy emissions, and agricultural energy uses, contribute roughly 73.4% of all world emissions.

Hydrogen-integrated systems are technologies interlinked with hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and uses. The technology works holistically on the entire hydrogen value chain, from components such as electrolysers—the machines that split water into its essential elements of hydrogen and oxygen—to steam methane reforming, which obtains hydrogen from natural gas and sources like solar- and wind-based hydrogen production. These systems also solve the issues associated with storage and transportation, some of which are compressed hydrogen storage, high-pressure tanks, and liquid hydrogen—cryogenic storage. Hydrogen pipelines enable the long-distance transport of this resource. Distribution infrastructure includes hydrogen refuelling stations for fuel cell vehicles and industrial pipelines. Finally, end-use applications are powered by hydrogen integrated systems.

Generated electricity from hydrogen is produced in fuel cells, and the direct combustion of hydrogen produces of other industrial processes. Hydrogen is a chemical feedstock in ammonia-related compounds production and other chemical processes. On the brighter side, these systems permit clean energy generation with low greenhouse gas emissions. They act to set up great potential for economic growth. However, infrastructural development and scaling at affordable costs challenge the applications of low-carbon hydrogen integrated systems.

Brief Description of the Drawings

The engineering drawing figures elucidated represent a high-volume continuous hydrogen storage setup integrated with a state-of-the-art automation system and hydrogen fuel cells.

Detailed Description of the Drawings

1. The hydrogen storage system combines HyVis (2) and HyVis Pro (1) in series to provide the safest and highest upstage volumetric and gravimetric hydrogen capacities for storage and transportation.

2. Each hydrogen storage system is connected with temperature, pressure, relative humidity, auto-cut sensors, multi-flow controllers and valves to keep the adjoint values for safe hydrogen storage intact.

3. All the sensors are connected to a novel transmitter, through which USB-device/Bluetooth hybrid connectivity is established. This transmitter has been stated as “HyVis Transmitter” (9).

4. The primary function of the transmitter is to act as a multi-operational device, which includes a data acquisition system and data transition to the automation system through a single device (5).

5. This helps fully to automate the storage supply from the automation room. The system can change the thermodynamic and auto-cut sensors from laptop/ mobile applications.

6. The storage facility consists of a dual hydrogen fuel cell capacity in series in which the hydrogen, which is stored on the active sites of the storage unit, is transmitted to the fuel cell (4) for industry energy requirements.

7. The automation room consists of 4 computing systems (10) for a fully automatic integrated system, in which each computing system is connected to the transmitter, valves, fuel cell and industry, respectively.

8. For any malfunction in the storage unit, an extended gas supply (3) is connected, which acts as an “inverter”. This helps keep the supply of energy requirements intact during malfunction or maintenance.

Claims

1. The Artificial Light Integrated Hydrogen Production- Storage System comprised of

The hydrogen stored in the vessels has ultra stability due to the maximum structural surface area possible (compared to the conventional hydrogen storage system), automated hydrogen storage control integration, and the “inverter” system for gas supply.

2. The HyVis integrated storage system, as defined in claim 1, has a novel transmitting system installed, which inculcates the acquired data and controls the ranges of temperature, pressure, relative humidity, and auto-cut sensors, as they are connected to the automation system.

3. The HyVis integrated storage system, as defined in claim 1, comprises the integration of two different hydrogen models, which, upon integration, flows to industrial applications. Because of giving a more efficient storage system in series, even if one system malfunctions, based on safety, the other variety of hydrogen storage models can support and take the industrial load until the former is repaired.

4. Based on the HyVis integrated storage system defined in claim 1 and claim 3, it consists of a novel “Hydrogen Storage Inverter System”. In such a system, if the hydrogen fuel cell or the hydrogen storage system malfunctions or there is an emergency, there is an automated gas supply in state-of-the-art hydrogen storage cylinders, which can provide a direct supply to industries for the continuous flow of hydrogen energy.

5. HyVis integrated storage system is a fully automated process in which no manual labour is needed to supply the industry with hydrogen energy demands. Based on the remote sensing applications and transmission technology, the safety aspects, hydrogen leaks, and the control of dual storage-generation system for smooth flow of hydrogen energy.

6. Based on the HyVis integrated storage system defined in claim 3, the novel hydrogen fuel cell design is incorporated into the series, similar to the integrated storage system. It is attached to the multi-flow controller, through which, based on industrial needs, the automated ranges of the flow of hydrogen energy are altered and transported to industries for safe hydrogen transport.

7. Based on the HyVis integrated storage system defined in claim 3 and claim 6, the pipes that connect hydrogen storage systems to fuel cells to industries consist of the metal hydride layer through which, based on the variable active sites in the pipe, the hydrogen constantly flow to industries which limited safety concerns.

8. The HyVis and HyVis Pro storage systems consist of a cuboidal glass flask consisting of an air-cooling mechanism (11) to keep the optimum temperature for hydrogen storage and provide a stable and risk-free hydrogen storage mechanism.

9. Based on the HyVis integrated storage system defined from claims 1 to 8, the system is not only contained for hydrogen energy transportation; upon several minor modifications, it can also be used for several high-pressure gases for smooth flow of such gases with risk-free transport for industrial applications (13).