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Locating wind farm for power and hydrogen production based on Geographic information system and multi-criteria decision making method: An application

Hosseini Dehshiri, S. S ; Sharif University of Technology | 2022

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.03.083
  3. Publisher: Elsevier Ltd , 2022
  4. Abstract:
  5. Hydrogen generation from renewable energy resources is considered as a suitable solution to solve the problems related to the energy sector and the reduction of greenhouse gases. The aim of this study is to provide an integrated framework for identifying suitable areas for the construction of wind farms to produce hydrogen. For this purpose, a combined method of Geographic Information System (GIS) and multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) has been used to locate the power plant in Yazd province. The GIS method in the present study consisted of two parts: constraints and criteria. The constraint section included areas that were unsuitable for the construction of wind farms to produce power and hydrogen. In the present study, various aspects such as physical, economic and environmental had been considered as constraints. In the criteria section, eight different criteria from technical aspects (including average wind speed, hydrogen production potential, land slope) and economic aspects (including distance to electricity grid, distance to urban areas, distance to road, distance to railway and distance to centers of High hydrogen consumption) had been investigated. The MCDM tool had been used to weigh the criteria and identify suitable areas. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique was used for weighting the criteria. The results of AHP weighting method showed that economic criteria had the highest importance with a value of 0.681. The most significant sub-criterion was the distance to urban areas and the least significant sub-criterion was the distance to power transmission lines. The results of GIS-MCDM analysis had shown that the most proper areas were in the southern and central sectors of Yazd province. In addition, the feasibility of hydrogen production from wind energy had shown that this province had the capacity to generate hydrogen at the rate of 53.6–128.6 tons per year. © 2022 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC
  6. Keywords:
  7. Geographic information system ; Hydrogen production ; Multi-criteria decision making methods ; Wind energy ; Yazd province ; Analytic hierarchy process ; Decision making ; Electric utilities ; Hierarchical systems ; Information systems ; Information use ; Wind ; Wind power ; Hydrogen generations ; Multi criteria decision-making ; Multicriteria decision making methods ; Multicriteria decision-making ; Multicriterion decision makings ; Power ; Suitable solutions ; Urban areas ; Wind farm ; Geographic information systems
  8. Source: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ; Volume 47, Issue 58 , 2022 , Pages 24569-24583 ; 03603199 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S036031992201120X