Abstract
Hydrogen production is a vital development trend to improve the economics and penetration rate of offshore wind farms (OWFs), and distributed hydrogen production (DHP) is a preferred solution for deep and far sea OWFs without expensive submarine cables and offshore substations. The export pathway of OWF-DHP consists of collection pipelines, transmission pipelines, and offshore compressor stations. In this paper, mathematical programming is introduced to explore the export pathway planning problem of OWF-DHP. Firstly, the area of OWF is discretized into multiple grids with the center of the grids being the candidate locations of the offshore compressor station. Then, a binary integer quadratic programming problem is established to optimize both the offshore compressor station location and pipeline construction with different topologies. Further, the mathematical model is solved by the branch and cut algorithm integrated with the proposed dimension reduction methods. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed export pathway planning approach is verified by the actual data of Baltic Eagle OWF in Germany, which would support the construction of the OWF-DHP project.
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