Article citationsMore >>

Shah K. Renewable Energy Integration: India's Next Big Challenge: Building Flexibility and Grid-Firming Will Be a Key Focus Going Forward. 2021

has been cited by the following article:

Article

Review of Hydrogen Based Fuel Cells Energy Storage Systems

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


Sustainable Energy. 2022, Vol. 10 No. 1, 1-20
DOI: 10.12691/rse-10-1-1
Copyright © 2022 Science and Education Publishing

Cite this paper:
Abdulaziz Albarrak, Abdulaziz Alshareef, Ahmed Alshareef, 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.

Correspondence to: Ahmed  M. Nahhas, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Islamic Architecture, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Email: amnahhas@uqu.edu.sa

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.

Keywords