(AGENPARL) - Roma, 25 Maggio 2023(AGENPARL) – gio 25 maggio 2023 Source: Tokyo Institute of Technology
https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/news/2023/066737
For immediate release: May 25, 2023
Headline: 100 kW hydrogen fuel cell – digital twin in operation – using
green hydrogen and waste plastic hydrogen
Sub-headline: Aiming to achieve both carbon neutrality and sustainable
economic growth
(Tokyo, May 25) The Tokyo Tech InfoSyEnergy Research and Education
Consortium <https://www.infosyenergy.titech.ac.jp/en/>, the Tokyo Tech
Academy of Energy and Informatics
<https://www.infosyenergy.titech.ac.jp/Academy/en/> Head of Consortium and
Academy Director Manabu Ihara, Prof.), and several companies such as
Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation are
jointly developing a platform "100 kW hydrogen fuel cell – digital twin"
for optimizing the design and control of a 100 kw hydrogen fuel cell that
seeks to balance carbon neutrality and economic advantage by mixing
renewable energy hydrogen/waste plastic hydrogen. They installed the
platform in the Tokyo Tech Environmental Energy Innovation (EEI) Building
<https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/public-relations/research/stories/eei-building>
started operation of the platform.
Hydrogen generated by renewable energy is expected to contribute to carbon
neutrality. However, at the current time, introduction is not progressing
as expected due to reasons such as the high cost of water electrolyzer and
the incompatibility of electrolyzer sizes. Therefore, in order to increase
incentives for introducing hydrogen as a technology for carbon neutrality,
this system produces hydrogen by supplying electricity from solar cells in
the EEI Building to a small-capacity water electrolyzer. It also mixes an
appropriate ratio of hydrogen produced from waste plastic (produced by
thermal decomposition of waste plastic, steam reforming, shift reaction,
and refining process; Resonac Holdings Corporation) and supplies it to the
hydrogen fuel cell. Power from the fuel cell will be supplied to the EEI
Building and campus, and waste heat will be supplied to the EEI Building's
air conditioning system (central heating and cooling) for advanced
utilization of waste heat.
Aiming for both carbon neutrality and sustainable economic growth, the
system is the first in the world to mix renewable energy hydrogen and waste
plastic hydrogen, supply the mixture to a fuel cell, and connect it to the
building's air conditioning system for advanced use of electricity and
heat. Moving forward, they aim to establish an urban hydrogen energy
utilization model that appropriately mixes and optimizes global hydrogen
and local hydrogen.
The system is connected to the intelligent energy system Ene-Swallow
<https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/news/2015/030251>® that performs peak cut
control at the Ookayama Campus of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo
Tech). Its detailed real-time operation data is accumulated in a database
and used as energy big data for joint research and education between
industry and academia. Furthermore, the mixing ratio of renewable energy
hydrogen and waste plastic hydrogen to be supplied to the fuel cell can be
controlled in real time from Ene-Swallow®. In the future, the acquisition
of detailed data will make it possible to design and control the device
capacity of the system. As a carbon neutral digital twin (Ene-Swallow®
Digital Twin), a platform that can be integrated and linked with the aim of
achieving carbon neutral and sustainable economic growth, they will work
for further advancement and promotion as part of R&D for "Carbon-neutral
digital twin with the core of energy bigdata" in the JST-MIRAI Program
"Advanced Intelligent Information Society" mission area (Program Officer:
Eisaku Maeda).
Conceptual design, Information system design/implementation (fuel cell,
electrolysis cell and information system) and Design supervision
– Tokyo Tech Academy of Energy and Informatics
– InfoSyEnergy Research and Education Consortium, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
– Ihara-Manzhos laboratory (Department of Chemical Science and
Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute
of Technology)
Hydrogen fuel cell – Manufacturing, Implementation and Data acquisition
– Toshiba corporation
– Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
Support for information system implementation
– NTT Data Business Systems Corporation
– NTT Data Customer Service Corporation
Hydrogen fuel cell system – Design and implementation of hydrogen supply
device
– UEKI Corporation
– Resonac Holdings Corporation
Hydrogen fuel cell system – Design and implementation for waste heat
utilization in EEI building
– NIHON SEKKEI, INC.
– Azbil Corporation
Electrical, mechanical and architecture – Facilities Implementation
Tokyo Tech, Facilities Construction and Maintenance Division, Facilities
Department
Figure.1 Photos of 100 kW hydrogen fuel cell – digital twin
https://tokyotech.box.com/s/82gfll2e466z0z0518pq51wf8z80nduk
Figure.2 Overview of exhaust heat utilization in 100 kW hydrogen fuel cell
system that supplies a mixture of renewable energy hydrogen and waste
plastic hydrogen / Overview of connected energy devices
https://tokyotech.box.com/s/jccuvhklq9ijvhzecbj8zui7mndqud62
Figure 3. Overview of Ene-Swallow® Digital Twin
https://tokyotech.box.com/s/vba0qkqvkfhnqai02cqg4ygrvz16vz87
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Thank you and Best regards,
Emiko Kawaguchi
Public Relations Division, Tokyo Institute of Technology
