Design of an Alkaline Electrolysis Stack
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Renewable energy promises a green energy future for the world. Hence, the electrol-
ysis process has been identi ed as the most important method to produce hydrogen
using renewable energy source. Moreover, during the last few years, people have
enhanced the interest to expand and use the alkaline water electrolysis technology
in di erent elds. Thus, the design of high performance compact electrolysis stack
according to the selected speci cation is very important.
The main purpose of this research work is to design and fabricate a compact high
performance electrolysis stack and to observe the electrolysis performance. Under
this study, twelve di erent experiments have been implemented to observe the elec-
trolysis performance. At the beginning, two di erent single cell alkaline electrolysers
were fabricated and their performances monitored to select best cell for the stack.
Thereafter, the several experiments were devised to improve the performance of the
selected cell. Thus, the best performing cell was selected for the nal stack. At last
both monopolar and bipolar con guration of alkaline electrolysis stack are designed
and implemented to compare the electrolysis performance of both con gurations.
Throughout the design process, the SolidWorks was adopted as the design software
platform. The modeling part of alkaline electrolyser was done using the MAT-
LAB/SIMULINK environment. Under the modeling process the electrochemical
equations are used to develop MATLAB/SIMULINK model. Consequently, the the-
oretical results are obtained by using developed mathematical model. Later, the
performance of designed alkaline electrolysis stack is analyzed and compared with
the theoretical results.
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Master's thesis Renewable Energy ENE500 - University of Agder 2017