Updates in P2H parameters description

hydesign/examples/Europe/hpp_pars.yml

@@ -61,16 +61,18 @@ n_full_power_hours_expected_per_day_at_peak_price: 0
 # n_full_power_hours_expected_per_day_at_peak_price: 2.55
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Battery
+# P2H parameters
+# efficiency curve parameters are mentioned in EMS component (https://doi.org/10.3390/en13030612)
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 price_H2: 5 #[Euro/kg]
 storage_eff: 1 #Compressor efficiency
-ptg_deg: 0.99 #Weekly degradation for 20 years of lifetime
+ptg_deg: 0.99 #Electrolyzer degradation over lifetime
 hhv: 39.3 #[kWh/kg]
 water_consumption : 9.4 #l/kg
-electrolyzer_capex_cost : 480_000  #[EUR/MW]
-electrolyzer_opex_cost : 9600  #Electrolyzer_capex_cost * 0.02 #[EUR/MW]
-electrolyzer_power_electronics_cost : 0  #[EUR/MW]
+electrolyzer_capex_cost : 480_000  #[EUR/MW] This value is for PEM electrolyzers
+# For Alkaline electrolyzers CAPEX can be considered as 70% of PEM
+electrolyzer_opex_cost : 9600  #It is 2% of electrolyzer_capex_cost #[EUR/MW]
+electrolyzer_power_electronics_cost : 0  #[EUR/MW] included in the capex_cost but can be considered seperately also
 water_cost : 4 #[EUR/m3]
 water_treatment_cost : 2  #[EUR/m3]
 compressor_capex_cost : 0 #[EUR/MW]

hydesign/examples/India/hpp_pars.yml

@@ -88,19 +88,20 @@ era5_ghi_zarr: '/groups/INP/era5/ghi.zarr' # location of GHI renalysis
 elevation_fn: '/groups/INP/era5/SRTMv3_plus_ViewFinder_coarsen.nc' # Altitude map for extracting altitude
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# P2X data
+# P2H parameters
+# efficiency curve parameters are mentioned in EMS component (https://doi.org/10.3390/en13030612)
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 price_H2: 5 #[Euro/kg]
 storage_eff: 1 #Compressor efficiency
-ptg_deg: 0.99 #Weekly degradation for 20 years of lifetime
+ptg_deg: 0.99 #Electrolyzer degradation over lifetime
 hhv: 39.3 #[kWh/kg]
-water_consumption: 9.4 #l/kg
-electrolyzer_capex_cost: 480_000  #[EUR/MW]
-electrolyzer_opex_cost: 9600  #Electrolyzer_capex_cost * 0.02 #[EUR/MW]
-electrolyzer_power_electronics_cost: 0  #[EUR/MW]
-water_cost: 4 #[EUR/m3]
-water_treatment_cost: 2  #[EUR/m3]
-compressor_capex_cost: 0 #[EUR/MW]
-compressor_opex_cost: 0 #[EUR/MW]
+water_consumption : 9.4 #l/kg
+electrolyzer_capex_cost : 480_000  #[EUR/MW] This value is for PEM electrolyzers
+# For Alkaline electrolyzers CAPEX can be considered as 70% of PEM
+electrolyzer_opex_cost : 9600  #It is 2% of electrolyzer_capex_cost #[EUR/MW]
+electrolyzer_power_electronics_cost : 0  #[EUR/MW] included in the capex_cost but can be considered seperately also
+water_cost : 4 #[EUR/m3]
+water_treatment_cost : 2  #[EUR/m3]
+compressor_capex_cost : 0 #[EUR/MW]
+compressor_opex_cost : 0  #[EUR/MW]
 ptg_WACC: 0.07      # After tax WACC for P2H plant
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