How to Optimize Green Hydrogen Projects Using ETAP and Digital Twin Technology for Efficiency

ETAP can model and assimilate the wind farm and also do the different types of steady- state or dynamic conditions study to understand how we can go in to manage the power in the right way.
by Mrs. Gloria Cai, Solution Architect, Schneider Electric China

As the world decarbonizes, green hydrogen emerges as a pivotal force in the energy transition landscape. Coupling Load to Energy Source is the second important idea in this solution. This case study presents a big green energy project managed by Shuimu Mintal Company and Schneider Electric Company launched in Inner Mongolia International Hydrogen Metallurgy and Chemical Demonstration Zone, China. The project is led by the International Hydrogen Energy Centre (IHEC), supported by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and hosted by the Beijing Tsinghua Industrial Research and Development Institute (TIDRI) and the Chinese metal manufacturer, the Mintal Group. The general name is "New energy hydrogen production and carbon-free fuel and wind and solar power generation”. The case study focuses on the ETAP digital twin solution which optimizes electricity power management to manufacture ammonia optimally by using natural resources like wind and energy storage systems. The project's complexity required linking power and process data, utilizing ETAP and AVEVA software solutions for modeling and simulation, and employing digital twin technology for process control.

Mintal Hydrogen Energy Technology Co., Ltd. is an international hydrogen energy technology company. It provides global customers with zero-carbon solutions that use new energy direct-coupling technology to manufacture green products. With the support of quality shareholders and partners, Mintal has developed an advanced business model and is committed to being a leading technological energy company. On March 6, 2024, Mintal signed a cooperation agreement with Schneider Electric. Schneider Electric, as the first digital solution provider in the industry to achieve power and process linkage, partners with Mintal to create a full-process optimization business from green electricity to green hydrogen and then to green ammonia—the Dynamic Co-Simulation Project on Green Electricity-Hydrogen-Ammonia. This collaboration aims to accelerate China's green energy transition.

 

Location: Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

Year: 2025

ONE Software to build the electrical digital-twin model

Challenges

  • Integrated Power Generation modeling with Generator, Wind farm, and Battery Energy Storage System to allow electrical system simulation in the dependency of critical events, keeping reliability and resilience.
  • Integrated Grid and Transmission modeling to stabilize energy delivery and costs according to the demand from ammonia manufacturing, and the market.
  • Improving the power quality and preparing safe load-forecasting scenarios, based on the digital model predictions.
  • Feasibility study to seize power resources depending on ammonia manufacturing prices, ammonia demands, energy prices, and others.

Which solutions do they choose?

Selected applications

They selected the ETAP Energy Management System, Power System Monitoring & Simulation, and Advanced Distribution Management System to build a model, simulate and Real-Time operate all energy processes.

ETAP ensures compliance with all needed electrical standards for designing and calculating in critical industries.

Why do they use Etap?

Main Customer Benefits

  • Easy and flexible digital modeling of the power generation, and electrical grid network, with all facilities in one holistic view.
  • Dynamic and steady-state system behavior simulations, using unconventional scenarios.
  • Cost optimization and design time optimization, thanks to digital demands modeling based on realistic sizing and priorities.
  • The digital continuity: one unified digital solution from feasibility studies, and design study to operation and maintenance study.
  • Improving and optimization of the information flow about processes, by using one software solution in one Integrated Virtual Power Plant.

What do they think about ETAP?

Opinions

So, we are using ETAP to do the modeling, to do the reliability study, and to optimize the size of the best power system.
Mrs. Gloria Cai, Solution Architect, Schneider Electric China

I think the unique or the best part of ETAP is the digital continuity from a modeling simulation to operation which differentiates us from [competitors] only focusing on the simulation offline and simulation tools only for some of the real-time SCADA systems.
Mrs. Gloria Cai, Solution Architect, Schneider Electric China



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