Background and Goals

The offshore-production of green hydrogen, which is shaping up to be a promising energy carrier in the fight against global warming, is still in its early stages of development. To support the realization of such a platform, the Wind2Hydrogen project focuses on the design of an offshore-hydrogen-generation-platform, while factoring in the unique challenges posed by the planned operating area. 

The Hochschule Bremerhaven is tasked with all aspects of the process-design of the platform. The final concept is supposed to include all relevant components for the production of green hydrogen and be scalable between 1 and 500 megawatts. To achieve this, an initial determination of all necessary components is carried out. This investigation also focuses on the specifications and requirements for the equipment, to be able to be used in an offshore-envirnonment. Subsequently a simulation model of the process-relevant componts is developed and, where possiple, validated with experimental data. This serves as the baseline for possible efficiency improvements, which can be made by using the secondary products of the main process components. A final evaluation of the platform concept is carried out by evaluating costs and possible CO2-savings across different plattform sizes.