Review of Hydrogen Based Fuel Cells Energy Storage Systems

Abdulaziz Albarrak; Abdulaziz Alshareef; Ahmed Alshareef; Ahmed M. Nahhas

Sustainable Energy. 2022, 10(1), 1-20
DOI: 10.12691/rse-10-1-1

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Review of Hydrogen Based Fuel Cells Energy Storage Systems

Abdulaziz Albarrak¹, Abdulaziz Alshareef¹, Ahmed Alshareef¹ and Ahmed M. Nahhas^1,

¹Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Islamic Architecture, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Pub. Date: October 13, 2022

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Abdulaziz Albarrak, Abdulaziz Alshareef, Ahmed Alshareef and Ahmed M. Nahhas. Review of Hydrogen Based Fuel Cells Energy Storage Systems. Sustainable Energy. 2022; 10(1):1-20. doi: 10.12691/rse-10-1-1

Abstract

This paper presents a review of the hydrogen energy storage systems. Most developed countries have turned to search for other sources of renewable energy, especially solar energy, and hydrogen energy, because they are clean, environmentally friendly, and renewable energy. Therefore, many countries of the world began to accept the inevitability of shifting to an economy based on hydrogen as a future fuel. Among the difficult challenges in this transformation are the methods of storing electrical energy in fuel cells and storing hydrogen, as the race of large energy companies has begun to provide solutions to develop many types of fuel cells, given that they are the biggest challenge to energy generation and storage. This paper presents a review of fuel cells including Energy Storage Using Hydrogen Produced from Excess Renewable Electricity, as well as to cover the storage system includes three main components: electrolysis, fuel cell, and a hydrogen buffer tank. We will discuss the different types of fuel cells, such as: Alkaline Fuel Cells (AFC), Polymer Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC)...etc.) along with the different application of fuel cell hydrogen energy storage, we will also investigate some case studies of the hydrogen energy storage and main opportunities and challenges of the implementation.

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fuel cell hydrogen energy storage Generate electricity

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