Bachelor or Master Thesis: Aspen Simulation of Heat Provision for Chemical Hydrogen Storage

Your Tasks:

  • Design an integrated process flowsheet incorporating a hydrogen burner for heat delivery supporting various offtaker processes such as the endothermic dehydrogenation, feed preheating, steam generation, and air preheating.
  • Conduct pinch analysis to minimize the overall energy consumption across the designed processes.
  • Perform a literature review and develop black- or grey-box models of the offtaker processes to combine them into a functioning Aspen simulation.
  • Optional for master students: Evaluate different flowsheet configurations and perform sensitivity analyses focusing on the performance of specific offtaker models.
  • Optional for master students: Compare different chemical hydrogen storage solutions such as LOHC and ammonia.

Your Profile:

  • Ability to work independently and to show initiative.
  • Experience and joy in process simulation with tools like Aspen.
  • Preparedness to work with mathematical and thermodynamic background knowledge.

Our Offer:

You will support the development of concepts for importing hydrogen with chemical carriers on a national scale of 100 TWh/yr. You will get the opportunity and flexibility to shape your own simulation design. You will get competent feedback on your findings and how you communicate them. This bachelor or master thesis will lead to recommendations for the future utilisation of LNG terminals as logistical hubs for hydrogen (LNG2Hydrogen project).

Start: Spring2024

You are interested?

Please send a concise email with transcript of records to Timo Schaerfe.

Contact

Timo Schaerfe

Team Lead "Process Design and Intensification"

    Building HIERN-Cauerstr /
    Room 4011
    +49 9131-12538135
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    Last Modified: 24.04.2024