3500/05-01-03-05-00-01 During the construction and delivery phase, Schneider Electric provides solutions including the AVEVA ERM materials and construction management system, the AVEVA AIM Asset Information Management platform (digital delivery) and the AVEVA OTS operator simulation training system to help the Green Hydrogen plant build a 3D visual digital plant. Establish a cross-organization cooperation and information sharing platform for the design institute, construction side, equipment supplier and customer involved in the project, so as to reduce cost waste and optimize the operation process while ensuring the quality of construction data and delivery data.
2. Power distribution optimization: At present, high cost is one of the core issues hindering the transition of high-energy industries to green hydrogen fuel. According to the “China Green Hydrogen Development Roadmap”, the production cost of green hydrogen in China is between 33.9-42.9 yuan/kg (4.92-6.23 US dollars/kg), and if it is to replace coal to produce hydrogen, its production cost needs to be reduced to 6.8-12.1 yuan/kg (0.99-1.76 US dollars/kg). Gigawatt green hydrogen projects as a key support for the implementation of carbon reduction in high-energy industries, its current priority is to reduce production costs, and increase supply, and continue to improve the market coverage of green hydrogen applications.
With Schneider Electric’s new scalable modular power distribution solution, the green hydrogen plant can effectively reduce the cost of green hydrogen production and minimize the cost gap with medium hydrogen. These upgraded power architectures feature standardized, compact equipment that can better help factories enh3500/05-01-03-05-00-01 ance their scalability. Combined with distribution design optimization tools and modular E-House prefabricated substations, plants can also smoothly transition to low-cost and robust distribution solutions.
In addition, based on the combination of Schneider Electric’s ETAP power system simulation software and AVEVA industrial software, the factory can cover the whole process of green hydrogen coupling chemical industry, and predict and simulate the energy supply and distribution in the process of renewable energy generation and hydrogen production, as well as the fluctuation intermitency, safety continuity, availability and economy in the process of production, and further explore the value of data. Maximize overall benefits.
3. Safe and efficient operation and maintenance (O&M) : Hydrogen is a flammable and explosive gas, if not handled properly, easy to cause fire, explosion and other serious consequences. For factories, the safety and stability of the hydrogen production process is particularly important. Therefore, green hydrogen plants need to combine energy and process management systems with integrated security and network information security. The combined system will also efficiently integrate Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS distributed control system, Safety Instrumen3500/05-01-03-05-00-01 tation System (SIS) and energy management system, along with the digital twin solution to further enhance safety during the project design phase and help:
Lower capital expenditure;
Reduce hardware equipment requirements;
Shorten construction and functional testing time;
Minimize debugging requirements;
Integrated control platforms, predictive simulation and integrated operations, asset performance management, and network information security software.
