KoNSTanZE
Combined use of renewable hydrogen in the transport, production and energy sectors in an industrial environment to establish CO2-neutral production sites
Sub-project: Measurement technology and scientific support
The KoNSTanZE project serves in particular to clarify the extent to which a manufacturing industrial plant can be converted into a CO₂-free production facility with the aid of H₂ technologies, and what H₂ technologies can contribute achieving this goal. The aim of KoNSTanZE is to implement a parallel supply for internal and external transport tasks, industrial production processes and power supply using an infrastructure based on green hydrogen for the first time. The sustainable realisation of a direct and system-friendly link between the transport, production and energy sectors in the industrial environment on the one hand, and highly efficient and flexible H2 generation based on volatile renewable sources on the other, offer the possibility of a plannable and demand-oriented supply of green hydrogen. 100 % green electricity is used for H2 production by means of electrolysis. In the first step, the hydrogen produced in this way is temporarily stored in low-pressure tanks. In the second step, depending on demand, it is used together with a mobile H2 filling station to ensure operational transport and logistics tasks in the hardening plant located on site and in the SOFC operated there. To optimise H2 production in line with current demand, an independent digital H2 management tool for the Homburg site has been developed and integrated into the Bosch Energy Platform as a new building block for H2 technologies in the further course of the project. In addition, the H2 management tool has been transferred into the basic version of a predictive future model for creating best-case and real-case scenarios for the Homburg site. To generalise the basic model, detailed implementation-oriented accompanying studies will be carried out at three other complementary national BOSCH sites and the results will be added to the basic model. In addition to site-specific investigations into the technical feasibility of the developed renewable or CO2 neutral supply concepts, they also contain economic and ecological data. The result is a universally applicable predictive future model that is linked to the Bosch Energy Platform via appropriate interfaces and thus exchanges data such as shift schedules, weather data and information on load management. This will enable BOSCH to test the developed hydrogen-based concepts internally at short notice and, in the medium term, to plan and implement them externally and utilise the results of the KoNSTanZE project.
Partner:
Bosch
FKZ 03EI3043B