Production unit for generating hydrogen
AssigneeKeil Solar Balloon Company GmbH
InventorPeter KEIL
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Abstract
A production unit for the production of hydrogen or ammonia by electrolytic decomposition of water, with an electrolysis unit supplied with electrical energy by a photovoltaic unit and connected on the media side to a water storage tank and on the output side to a hydrogen tank, is intended to enable a particularly reliable and fluctuation-insensitive use of a regenerative energy source. For this purpose, the production unit is designed for floating operation and comprises a balloon envelope forming a buoyant body which can be filled with a buoyancy gas and which is provided with a support structure for the water storage unit, the electrolysis unit, the photovoltaic unit and the hydrogen storage unit.
Claims17
A production unit for producing hydrogen by electrolytic decomposition of water, comprising:
- an electrolysis unit supplied with electrical energy by a photovoltaic unit, the electrolysis unit connected on a media side to a water storage tank and on an output side to a hydrogen storage tank, a balloon envelope forming a buoyancy body which can be filled with a buoyancy gas, which is provided with a support structure for the water storage unit, the electrolysis unit, the photovoltaic unit and the water storage unit, and means for displacing a center of mass of the production unit in order to enable the center of mass to be positioned at a center of buoyancy of the production unit.
The method according to claim 9, further comprising positioning the production units at a working height of up to approximately 8,000 m above sea level during the production of the hydrogen or ammonia.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.