IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v69y2014icp497-505.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Optimal year-round operation for methane production from CO2 and water using wind energy

Author

Listed:
  • Davis, William
  • Martín, Mariano

Abstract

In this paper, we present the optimal year-round production of synthetic methane from water electrolysis using wind energy, and CO2 from power plants. The plant consists of a wind farm, a system of electrolyzers which produces oxygen and hydrogen from water, a series of equipment used to purify and store the oxygen; and the purification of hydrogen using a deoxygenation reactor and its reaction with CO2 to produce synthetic methane. We operate the plant over a year, considering monthly variability in wind velocity for constant methane production, and for variable methane production. We formulate the problem as a multiperiod NLP. The investment of a plant devoted to synthetic natural gas production is 375 M€ for a production cost of synthetic methane of 13.1 €/MMBTU, a price that is currently over the selling price of natural gas. If the plant operates at constant methane production rate, the investment and production costs are almost double, but we can obtain credit from the electricity produced; 2.9 kg of CO2 per kg of CH4 produced can be reused by this process.

Suggested Citation

  • Davis, William & Martín, Mariano, 2014. "Optimal year-round operation for methane production from CO2 and water using wind energy," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 497-505.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:69:y:2014:i:c:p:497-505
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.03.043
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544214003077
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.energy.2014.03.043?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Martín, Mariano & Grossmann, Ignacio E., 2013. "Optimal use of hybrid feedstock, switchgrass and shale gas for the simultaneous production of hydrogen and liquid fuels," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 378-391.
    2. Carton, J.G. & Olabi, A.G., 2010. "Wind/hydrogen hybrid systems: Opportunity for Ireland’s wind resource to provide consistent sustainable energy supply," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 35(12), pages 4536-4544.
    3. Olateju, Babatunde & Kumar, Amit, 2011. "Hydrogen production from wind energy in Western Canada for upgrading bitumen from oil sands," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 36(11), pages 6326-6339.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Er-rbib, Hanaâ & Bouallou, Chakib, 2014. "Modeling and simulation of CO methanation process for renewable electricity storage," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 81-88.
    2. Frank, Elimar & Gorre, Jachin & Ruoss, Fabian & Friedl, Markus J., 2018. "Calculation and analysis of efficiencies and annual performances of Power-to-Gas systems," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 218(C), pages 217-231.
    3. Emin Sertaç Ari & Cevriye Gencer, 2020. "Proposal of a novel mixed integer linear programming model for site selection of a wind power plant based on power maximization with use of mixed type wind turbines," Energy & Environment, , vol. 31(5), pages 825-841, August.
    4. Zheng, Danxing & Wu, Zhaohui & Huang, Weijia & Chen, Youhui, 2017. "Energy quality factor of materials conversion and energy quality reference system," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 185(P1), pages 768-778.
    5. Blanco, Elena C. & Sánchez, Antonio & Martín, Mariano & Vega, Pastora, 2023. "Methanol and ammonia as emerging green fuels: Evaluation of a new power generation paradigm," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).
    6. Sennai Mesfun & Jan-Olof Anderson & Kentaro Umeki & Andrea Toffolo, 2016. "Integrated SNG Production in a Typical Nordic Sawmill," Energies, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-19, April.
    7. Ipsakis, Dimitris & Varvoutis, Georgios & Lampropoulos, Athanasios & Papaefthimiou, Spiros & Marnellos, George E. & Konsolakis, Michalis, 2021. "Τechno-economic assessment of industrially-captured CO2 upgrade to synthetic natural gas by means of renewable hydrogen," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 1884-1896.
    8. Trop, P. & Goricanec, D., 2016. "Comparisons between energy carriers' productions for exploiting renewable energy sources," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 155-161.
    9. Yifei Lu & Thiemo Pesch & Andrea Benigni, 2021. "Simulation of Coupled Power and Gas Systems with Hydrogen-Enriched Natural Gas," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-17, November.
    10. Toemen, Susilawati & Mat Rosid, Salmiah Jamal & Abu Bakar, Wan Azelee Wan & Ali, Rusmidah & Sulaiman, Siti Fadziana & Hasan, Rahim, 2018. "Methanation of carbon dioxide over Ru/Mn/CeAl2O3 catalyst: In-depth of surface optimization, regeneration and reactor scale," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 863-870.
    11. José Claudio Isaias & Pedro Paulo Balestrassi & Guilherme Augusto Barucke Marcondes & Wesley Vieira da Silva & Carlos Henrique Pereira Mello & Claudimar Pereira da Veiga, 2021. "Project Portfolio Selection of Solar Energy by Photovoltaic Generation Using Gini-CAPM Multi-Criteria and Considering ROI Covariations," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(24), pages 1-21, December.
    12. Hemmati, Reza & Azizi, Neda, 2017. "Advanced control strategy on battery storage system for energy management and bidirectional power control in electrical networks," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 138(C), pages 520-528.
    13. Martín, Mariano & Grossmann, Ignacio E., 2018. "Optimal integration of renewable based processes for fuels and power production: Spain case study," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 213(C), pages 595-610.
    14. Maria Alessandra Ancona & Vincenzo Antonucci & Lisa Branchini & Francesco Catena & Andrea De Pascale & Alessandra Di Blasi & Marco Ferraro & Cristina Italiano & Francesco Melino & Antonio Vita, 2022. "Parametric Thermo-Economic Analysis of a Power-to-Gas Energy System with Renewable Input, High Temperature Co-Electrolysis and Methanation," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-25, February.
    15. González Álvarez, José Francisco & Gonzalo de Grado, Jesús, 2016. "Study of a modern industrial low pressure turbine for electricity production employed in oxy-combustion cycles with CO2 capture purposes," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 734-747.
    16. Laslett, Dean & Carter, Craig & Creagh, Chris & Jennings, Philip, 2017. "A large-scale renewable electricity supply system by 2030: Solar, wind, energy efficiency, storage and inertia for the South West Interconnected System (SWIS) in Western Australia," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 713-731.
    17. Meylan, Frédéric D. & Moreau, Vincent & Erkman, Suren, 2016. "Material constraints related to storage of future European renewable electricity surpluses with CO2 methanation," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 366-376.
    18. Ganesh, Ibram, 2015. "Solar fuels vis-à-vis electricity generation from sunlight: The current state-of-the-art (a review)," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 904-932.
    19. Akulker, Handan & Aydin, Erdal, 2023. "Optimal design and operation of a multi-energy microgrid using mixed-integer nonlinear programming: Impact of carbon cap and trade system and taxing on equipment selections," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 330(PA).
    20. Rocha, Luiz Célio Souza & Aquila, Giancarlo & Rotela Junior, Paulo & Paiva, Anderson Paulo de & Pamplona, Edson de Oliveira & Balestrassi, Pedro Paulo, 2018. "A stochastic economic viability analysis of residential wind power generation in Brazil," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 412-419.
    21. Sánchez, Antonio & Martín, Mariano & Zhang, Qi, 2021. "Optimal design of sustainable power-to-fuels supply chains for seasonal energy storage," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 234(C).
    22. Brynolf, Selma & Taljegard, Maria & Grahn, Maria & Hansson, Julia, 2018. "Electrofuels for the transport sector: A review of production costs," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 81(P2), pages 1887-1905.
    23. Martín, Mariano, 2016. "RePSIM metric for design of sustainable renewable based fuel and power production processes," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 833-845.
    24. Sánchez, Antonio & Castellano, Elena & Martín, Mariano & Vega, Pastora, 2021. "Evaluating ammonia as green fuel for power generation: A thermo-chemical perspective," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 293(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Luo, Yu & Shi, Yixiang & Li, Wenying & Cai, Ningsheng, 2014. "Comprehensive modeling of tubular solid oxide electrolysis cell for co-electrolysis of steam and carbon dioxide," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 420-434.
    2. Wu, Liang & He, Yuehui & Lei, Ting & Nan, Bo & Xu, Nanping & Zou, Jin & Huang, Baiyun & Liu, C.T., 2013. "Characterization of the porous Ni3Al–Mo electrodes during hydrogen generation from alkaline water electrolysis," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 216-224.
    3. Caumon, Pauline & Lopez-Botet Zulueta, Miguel & Louyrette, Jérémy & Albou, Sandrine & Bourasseau, Cyril & Mansilla, Christine, 2015. "Flexible hydrogen production implementation in the French power system: Expected impacts at the French and European levels," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 556-562.
    4. Wu, Liang & He, Yuehui & Lei, Ting & Nan, Bo & Xu, Nanping & Zou, Jin & Huang, Baiyun & Liu, C.T., 2014. "The stability of hydrogen evolution activity and corrosion behavior of porous Ni3Al–Mo electrode in alkaline solution during long-term electrolysis," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 19-26.
    5. Rahimi, Sahand & Meratizaman, Mousa & Monadizadeh, Sina & Amidpour, Majid, 2014. "Techno-economic analysis of wind turbine–PEM (polymer electrolyte membrane) fuel cell hybrid system in standalone area," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 381-396.
    6. Mansilla, C. & Louyrette, J. & Albou, S. & Bourasseau, C. & Dautremont, S., 2013. "Economic competitiveness of off-peak hydrogen production today – A European comparison," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 996-1001.
    7. Enevoldsen, Peter & Sovacool, Benjamin K., 2016. "Integrating power systems for remote island energy supply: Lessons from Mykines, Faroe Islands," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 642-648.
    8. Olateju, Babatunde & Kumar, Amit, 2013. "Techno-economic assessment of hydrogen production from underground coal gasification (UCG) in Western Canada with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) for upgrading bitumen from oil sands," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 428-440.
    9. Díaz-González, Francisco & Sumper, Andreas & Gomis-Bellmunt, Oriol & Villafáfila-Robles, Roberto, 2012. "A review of energy storage technologies for wind power applications," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 16(4), pages 2154-2171.
    10. Rabiee, Abdorreza & Khorramdel, Hossein & Aghaei, Jamshid, 2013. "A review of energy storage systems in microgrids with wind turbines," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 18(C), pages 316-326.
    11. Hiendro, Ayong & Kurnianto, Rudi & Rajagukguk, Managam & Simanjuntak, Yohannes M. & Junaidi,, 2013. "Techno-economic analysis of photovoltaic/wind hybrid system for onshore/remote area in Indonesia," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 652-657.
    12. Yuan, Zhenyu & Zhang, Yufeng & Fu, Wenting & Li, Zipeng & Liu, Xiaowei, 2013. "Investigation of a small-volume direct methanol fuel cell stack for portable applications," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 462-467.
    13. Xing, Lei & Du, Shangfeng & Chen, Rui & Mamlouk, Mohamed & Scott, Keith, 2016. "Anode partial flooding modelling of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Model development and validation," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 80-95.
    14. Gavenas, Ekaterina & Rosendahl, Knut Einar & Skjerpen, Terje, 2015. "CO2-emissions from Norwegian oil and gas extraction," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 90(P2), pages 1956-1966.
    15. Wang, Hongjian & Cao, Tianyu & Shi, Yixiang & Cai, Ningsheng & Yuan, Wei, 2014. "Liquid antimony anode direct carbon fuel cell fueled with mass-produced de-ash coal," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 555-559.
    16. Glotić, Arnel & Glotić, Adnan & Kitak, Peter & Pihler, Jože & Tičar, Igor, 2014. "Optimization of hydro energy storage plants by using differential evolution algorithm," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 97-107.
    17. Rahnavard, Aylin & Rowshanzamir, Soosan & Parnian, Mohammad Javad & Amirkhanlou, Gholam Reza, 2015. "The effect of sulfonated poly (ether ether ketone) as the electrode ionomer for self-humidifying nanocomposite proton exchange membrane fuel cells," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 746-757.
    18. Razzaqul Ahshan, 2021. "Potential and Economic Analysis of Solar-to-Hydrogen Production in the Sultanate of Oman," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(17), pages 1-22, August.
    19. Carton, J.G. & Olabi, A.G., 2017. "Three-dimensional proton exchange membrane fuel cell model: Comparison of double channel and open pore cellular foam flow plates," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 185-195.
    20. Gao, Dan & Jiang, Dongfang & Liu, Pei & Li, Zheng & Hu, Sangao & Xu, Hong, 2014. "An integrated energy storage system based on hydrogen storage: Process configuration and case studies with wind power," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 332-341.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:69:y:2014:i:c:p:497-505. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.