A thorough analysis of renewable hydrogen projects development in Uzbekistan using MCDM methods
Mostafaeipour A. Hosseini Dehshiri S.S. Hosseini Dehshiri S.J. Almutairi K. Taher R. Issakhov A. Techato K.
3 September 2021Elsevier Ltd
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
2021#46Issue 6131174 - 31190 pp.
The energy supply system of Uzbekistan is not well positioned to meet the rapidly rising domestic energy demand of this country. Uzbekistans current energy supply system is outdated and has very low diversity, as most of its energy comes from natural gas. In addition to producing immense amounts of greenhouse gas and environmental pollution, this situation is untenable considering the eventual depletion of fossil fuel reserves of this country. Uzbekistans renewable energy sector is highly undeveloped, a situation that can be attributed to the lack of coherent policies for the advancement of renewable power and the low price of natural gas. However, this country has significant untapped renewable potentials, especially wind energy, that can perform a significant performance in the countrys power generation plans. Also, producing hydrogen from renewable power can provide a good alternative to fossil fuels and help meet the needs of the Uzbek industrial sector, especially oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. In this study, the suitability of 17 regions in Uzbekistan for wind-powered hydrogen production was analyzed in terms of 16 sub-criteria in four categories of technical, economic, social, and environmental factors. To obtain robust results, the ranking was performed using a hybrid of BWM and EDAS, as well as WASPAS, ARAS, and WSM techniques. The weighting results exhibited the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE), Levelized Cost of Hydrogen (LCOH), and Annual Energy Production (AEP) to be the most important sub-criteria for this evaluation. Nukus, Buhara, and Kungrad were introduced as the top three most appropriate locations for hydrogen development from wind plants. It was estimated that using 2000 kW turbines, a wind-powered hydrogen production plant built in the Nukus region can achieve an annual power output of 4432.7 MW and annual hydrogen output of 71.752 tons.
Hydrogen generation , Location planning , MCDM methods , Uzbekistan , Wind power
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Industrial Management
Community College
College of Engineering and Technology
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics
Environmental Assessment and Technology for Hazardous Waste Management Research Center
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