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2736. Hydrogen Refueling Station Allocation Problem: A Case Study for İstanbul

Invited abstract in session WD-22: Empowering Energy Access, stream Energy Management.

Wednesday, 14:30-16:00
Room: 81 (building: 116)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Saliha Büşra Gündüz
Information Engineering, University of Florence
2. Ebru Geçici
Industrial Engineering, Boğaziçi University
3. Mehmet Güray Güler
Industrial Engineering Dep., İstanbul Technical University

Abstract

Researchers and countries are turning to alternative energy sources as the existing energy sources are insufficient to meet the demand. Hydrogen energy is one of the alternative energy sources and one of its main potential contributions will be through the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (HFCVs). To ensure the widespread use of HFCVs, hydrogen fuel must be easily accessible. The number and location of hydrogen refueling stations (HRSs), therefore, have a crucial role for the usage of the hydrogen energy via HFCVs.
The subject of this study is to determine of the number and locations of HRSs for Istanbul, Türkiye’s most crowded city. The adaptation to hydrogen technology for each district is modelled using a measure for life quality called human development index which is then used to determine the HFCVs’ demand based on traffic flow data. We employ three different approaches for modeling the problem in a multi period setting: p-median model, a set covering model, and a hybrid model of both. It turns out that ignoring the transition of adopting hydrogen technology may result in a significant loss. Moreover, instead of spreading from the center to the city boundary, the stations appear at both low populated and high populated regions from early periods of the 30 years planning horizon. Finally, very few numbers of HRSs are sufficient to meet high demand, but the number increases significantly if all demand should be satisfied.

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Status: accepted

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