Hydrogen Demand and Resource Analysis HyDRA Project

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Hydrogen Demand and Resource Analysis (HyDRA)
Project
SEAAC Seminar Series Johanna Levene October 9,
2008

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Overview

• Where did HyDRA come from?
• What can HyDRA do?
• Where can we go from here?

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History Hydrogen resources

• http//www.nrel.gov/docs/fy07osti/41134.pdf

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History Hydrogen demand

• http//www.nrel.gov/docs/fy07osti/40373.pdf

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History Comparing Resource and Demand

• Great analyses, good information, but wouldnt it
  be nice to be able to compare the data
  interactively?

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History Renewable Planning Model
NREL Web Browser
Web Server GIS system
External Web Browser
Resource Variation
Database

• NREL DDRD (Director's
• Discretionary Research and
• Development) funded application
• Concept Interactive assessment, visualization
  and basic analysis tool to assist in locating and
  optimizing feasible renewable power systems

Load Reduction
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Why spatial analysis for hydrogen?

• An energy carrier, similar to electricity
• Produced from various feedstock
• Resource, demand, and infrastructure will vary
  regionally
• - Analyses tend to use national averages
• - Price and availability are not the national
  average
• - Need a tool to facilitate regional analyses
• Does not replace other analysis efforts

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Why spatial analysis for hydrogen?

• Example What are the impacts of hydrogen
  produced by electrolysis, on a regional basis
  from the perspectives of

• Cost
• Emissions
• Energy Inputs

Oregon
0.0443/kWh
National Average
Wyoming
0.0391/kWh
0.0525/kWh
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Objective

• Develop a web-based GIS tool to allow analysts,
  decision makers, and general users to view,
  download, and analyze hydrogen demand, resource,
  and infrastructure data spatially and dynamically.

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Overview

• Where did HyDRA come from?
• What can HyDRA do?
• Where can we go from here?

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Accomplishments - Data

• Created and integrated 63 datasets viewable as
  graphical maps.
• Resource cost and availability
• Hydrogen production potential
• Hydrogen production cost
• Resource consumption
• Hydrogen demand
• Infrastructure

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Accomplishments - Application

• Built a fully functional secure web-based GIS
  application
• Zoom
• Pan
• Query
• Print
• Threshold
• Buffer
• Data Import and Export
• Graphing

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Accomplishments Interactive Analysis
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Accomplishments Interactive Analysis
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Case Study

• I want to be able to drive my hydrogen car from
  Charlotte to Orlando. Both cities already have a
  hydrogen fueling station.

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Case Study

• My car can drive 250 miles before refueling.

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Case Study

• There is an overlap between my two 250 mile
  ranges.

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Case Study

• Looks like we need a station at I-95 and I-16

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Case Study

• How much will it cost to produce hydrogen via
  electrolysis at my new station?

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Case Study

• What about steam methane reforming?

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Case Study What Else?

• Are there transmission lines near my new station?
  What voltage?
• Are there natural gas pipelines near my new
  station? What diameter?
• What is the hydrogen vehicle demand?
• Are there already gas stations there?
• Is there a hydrogen production facility nearby?
• What kind of renewable energy sources could I use
  to produce my hydrogen?
• What would be the WTW total energy inputs, fossil
  energy inputs, petroleum energy inputs, and GHG
  emissions to drive my car?

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Energy and GHG Emissions

• To determine regional energy inputs and
  greenhouse gas emissions, we integrated HyDRA
  with the Hydrogen Macro System Model (MSM).
• Cost from H2A model
• Energy and GHG from GREET
• Step 1
• Manually integrate electrolysis costs
• County by county analysis
• Allows us to validate integration with known
  results

Electric Rate
H2 Cost
MSM
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Energy and GHG Emissions

• Step 2 Build new electricity GHG emissions and
  energy layers for HyDRA

MSM
Emissions
eGRID
Energy
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Future Work - MSM Integration

• Step 3
• Programmatically integrate cost and emissions
  analysis

GREET
H2A
H2 Cost WTW energy use Petroleum use Fossil
use GHG emissions WTP GHG emissions
Electric Rate Grid Mix
MSM
HyDRA
HyDRA
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Wow, this is really cool but

• It is so slow.
• The application has to reload all the time.
• The interface is ugly.
• It isnt user friendly.
• Why is it so hard to change the look and feel?
• Cant it just look like Google Maps?
• I want one that isnt about hydrogen.

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Overview

• Where did HyDRA come from?
• What can HyDRA do?
• Where can we go from here?

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The New Freebase Architecture

• Framework developed by Chris Helm (GIS)
• Witt Sparks (CTTS)
• Mike Hostetler (subcontract)
• Goal to be able to quickly develop and deploy
  web based GIS applications

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The New Freebase Architecture

• Improved user interface
• Layers are cached
• Google maps layers provide familiar look and feel
• Transparency can be adjusted with a slider bar
• More robust
• architecture
• You can see
• Alaska and
• Hawaii!

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Can this go beyond hydrogen?

• Diesel Exhaust Fluid
• Electric Charging Stations

• Alternative Fuels
• Fleet Analysis

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Can this go beyond hydrogen?

• PV and CSP

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Can this go beyond hydrogen?
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Can this go beyond hydrogen?

• Biomass power
• Biofuels
• Wind
• Geothermal
• Fleet management
• Alternative fuel demand analysis

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How do I find out more?

• To access both the new and old HyDRA
• https//rpm.nrel.gov/rpmentry and request a
  login
• gt use the Beta link to see the new architecture
• gt use the Stable link to see the old
  architecture
• To access IMBY
• gt http//www.nrel.gov/eis/imby/
• Do you have an application idea?
• gt Contact Johanna Levene, Chris Helm or Witt
  Sparks