The HOW of a Hydrogen Organized Washington (and World!)

The HOW of a Hydrogen Organized Washington (and World!)

H H Y P E R Jacob Leachman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, co-Founder Protium Innovations LLC School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering [email protected] (509)335-7711 http://hydrogen.wsu.edu

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1) Making H2:::

“Sure I’ll take that energy off your hands… it’ll cost you.”

2) Adding Value:

The HOW of H2:

4) Realizing H2:

3) Using H2: HY PE R

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1) Making H2: BPA Wind Capacity BPA Installed Wind Capacity Curtailment limit reached in 2012

2http://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/WIND_InstalledCapacity_PLOT.pdf

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1) Making H2: BPA 2013 - A Balance of Power

1400

Total Power Generated

Power Transferred (MW)

1200

1000

Hydro Generated

800

Net Interchange

600

Net Load

400

Thermal Generated 200

Wind Generated 0 January

February

March

April

May

June July Time (Month)

August

September

October

November

1http://www.bpa.gov/transmission/Reports/Pages/default.aspx

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December

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1) Making H2: BPA Balancing Reserves

Curtailment limits exceeded

1http://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/reserves.aspx

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1) Making H2: NREL’s Wind-to-H2 Project • 100 kW turbine direct coupled to 33 kW alkaline & 6 kW PEM stack Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyze r

1) K. Harris, NREL to Wind hydrogen project, presentation to DOE (2009) 2) Courtesy of Monterey Gardiner/DOE FCTO (2014)

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1) Making H2: Northwest Biomass1 • HUGE biomass reserves • Gasification produces biochar & H2 • Operational pilot plant • Net carbon negative process

1) Courtesy of Phil Appel, CEO, Ag Energy Solutions (2015)

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1) Making H2:::

The HOW of H2:

4) Realizing H2:

3) Using H2: 2) Adding Value:

We can make hydrogen! 9 Cool!

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2. Adding Value: Economics of LH2 Export Would take entire WA State production capacity to fill once per week. WA has 6th largest production capacity in US. • 160,000 m3 of LH2 • $57-170 MILLION/load

• 2.2 million car charges @ 5kg/charge • 63 GIGAWATT energy transfer (370 million kW-hrs) • $0.45/kw-hr compared to $0.012 * • 37.5x increase in energy value as LH2 *https://www.eia.gov/electricity/wholesale/ April 12, 2016 10

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2. Adding Value: The case for liquid • 80-90% of non-pipeline H2 delivered via liquid tanker truck.1 • LH2 will propel the early H2 economy.2 • Only 8 LH2 plants in North America -2 are carbon free (Niagara, Mississippi) -Smallest is ~6 tonne/day -Can only ramp 30%/day

• Production cost: $5-5.60/kgLH2

• Delivery cost: $4-12/kgLH2

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