Project Details
[Return to Previous Page]Hydrogen economic model & Green Hydrogen Value Chain Top SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
Company: BP Production
Major(s):
Primary: EGEE
Secondary: CMPSC
Optional: ME
Non-Disclosure Agreement: NO
Intellectual Property: NO
This project has two parts that can be worked on simultaneously: PART 1: At the beginning of the hydrogen value chain is developing hydrogen via an electrolyzer, using a balance of green energy from wind and solar. Further down the value chain there is battery energy storage / distribution and hydrogen storage and distribution. The goal is to model this to develop an economic solution including the following: 1. Dynamic models for: a. Wind generation b. Solar generation c. Hydrogen from the electrolyzer 2. Inputs to the model based on contracts for: a. renting storage, b. spot market versus wholesale for hydrogen c. spot market versus battery storage. d. Sale or purchase of power from the grid e. Ancillary services to the grid for the balance of frequency f. Sale of purchase of hydrogen g. Constraints based on regulators h. Tax credits 3. External inputs: a. Wind predictions b. Solar predictions c. Hydrogen demand prediction d. UK and US type agreements including tax credits. The desire is to use the Electrolyzer dynamic Hysis simulator which has already been developed. Other parts of the simulation include wind & solar generation using simplified models already developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The end goal is to develop a dynamic visual simulator using historical wind and solar availability & including electrical grid usage or sale to use or generate hydrogen. The final output will be how much revenue this type of value chain can generate in a year. PART 2: BP has the vision of a Top SCADA system for its green hydrogen assets. The SCADA shall be scalable to multiple facilities of systems in the green hydrogen chain including wind, solar, storage, electrolyzer, battery management and pipelines. As new systems are added on to the value chain, the Top Scada system will need to be scalable having similar human machine interfaces, alarms and management to enable for a single operator. The Top Scada system will reside in the cloud. GeoSCADA from Schnieder Electric is a potential top SCADA, Factory Talk from Rockwell, and MiScout from Emerson (local for wind) are potential local SCADA systems. Areas for project exploration: 1. What will the requirements for the system be for confidentiality integrity and availability (CIA)? 2. What would be the cloud and network architecture requirements be to meet the cyber security and availability requirements? 3. What standards should be considered such as graphical typicals should be used to make the development of the top SCADA simple, operator friendly and scalable? 4. What would be the process be to introduce a new facility to the Top SCADA system including when adjustments to CIA would be required for additional redundancy? 5. Develop a process for tagging systems for local level facilities to streamline adding more facilities to the Top SCADA system for HMI alarms and historian to this Top SCADA system. 6. Is there a unique way to do alarm rationalization so that it appropriately minimizes alarms to the Top SCADA system. Additional Resources to Review for Consideration: https://blog.copadata.com/mtp-revolutionizing-industries https://www.dicomat.com/wp-content/uploads/catalogos/WAGO_MTP_EN_60419038.pdf
