Conceptual design of 1 GW class hybrid energy transfer line of hydrogen and electricity

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 234; no. 3; p. 032064
• Main Authors: Yamada, S, Hishinuma, Y, Uede, T, Schippl, K, Yanagi, N, Mito, T, Sato, M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.06.2010
• Subjects: Conceptual design; Electrical insulation; Electricity; Electricity distribution; Energy transfer; Hydrogen; Hydrogen fuels; Liquid hydrogen; Magnesium compounds; Physics; Pressure loss; Thermal insulation; Transfer lines; Transportation systems
• ISSN: 1742-6596; 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/234/3/032064

Applicability of 1 GW class hybrid energy transfer line of hydrogen and electricity is investigated in this report. Hydrogen refrigeration station is placed on every 10 km of the unit section. The rated current is 10 kA, and operation voltage is 100 kV (+ 50 kV and −50 kV for ground). Delivery capacity of the liquid hydrogen is 100 tons per day. The HETL consists of the SC cable, electrical insulation layer, channel for liquid hydrogen, inner corrugated tube, vacuum space for thermal insulation and outer corrugated tube. The special multi-filamentary MgB2 wire was developed to improve the Ic performance against bending strain. When the pressure of liquid hydrogen increases, boiling temperature of liquid hydrogen becomes high. Pressurization of liquid hydrogen enables to expand operation temperature region of the MgB2 cable, and to absorb the head loss of the installation route. To obtain the operation temperature from 20 K to 25 K, pressure of liquid hydrogen from 0.4 to 0.6 MPa was chosen. When the heat leak into the liquid hydrogen is 1.0 W/m (expected value), the temperature at the outlet becomes 21.8 K. It was confirmed that this HETL is one of the attractive energy transportation system which combines hydrogen fuel and SC power transmission.