Abstract
In recent years the necessity of reducing environmental impacts and increasing flexibility in the energy sector has led to a growth in the penetration of renewable energy sources and the shift from centralized production to distributed production. This study aims to investigate the separation of the Kuhin, Qazvin region from the national grid network. In this case, two prominent scenarios are designed and proposed: the simultaneous power generation of wind turbine and proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) (first scenario) and fuel cell-hydrogen energy storage (second scenario). Algorithm optimization is employed to reach the best solution in the MATLAB environment to obtain the most efficient configuration of the hybrid systems. Accordingly, the proposed PEMFC is modeled and simulated using COMSOL software via the computational fluid dynamics methods. The results obtained from the optimization show that the desired PEMFC power plant suitable for the first scenario has a power capacity of 160 kW, generating electricity at $0.6452 per kWh and a present capital of $4,466,099. In the second scenario, the results show a power capacity of 168 kW at $0.7237 per kWh requiring a capital cost of $5,029,397.
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