Evaluation and calculation on the efficiency of a water electrolysis system for hydrogen production

With the help of the typical model of a water electrolysis hydrogen production system, which mainly includes the electrolysis cell, separator, and heat exchangers, three expressions of the system efficiency in literature are compared and evaluated, from which one reasonable expression of the efficiency is chosen and directly used to analyze the performance of a water electrolysis hydrogen production system under different operation conditions. Several new configurations of a water electrolysis system are put forward and the problem how to calculate the efficiencies of these configurations is solved. Moreover, a solid oxide steam electrolyzer system (SOSES) for hydrogen production is taken as an example to expound that the different configurations of a water electrolysis system should be adopted for different operation conditions. The results obtained here may provide some guidance for the optimum design and operation of water electrolysis systems for hydrogen production.

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