​[PUBLICATION] Modeling and analysis of the operational and investment costs of hydrogen sea transportation applied to NH3 and LH2 energy derivatives

🎉 Congratulations to Pierre Cayet, Oualid GHARBI from CEA I-Tésé, and Elise LE GOFF from CEA-Liten on the publication of their article "Modeling and analysis of the operational and investment costs of hydrogen sea transportation applied to NH3 and LH2 energy derivatives" in the journal Applied Energy!

💡 Context
Recent modeling studies on international trade of low-carbon hydrogen value chain exhibit important limitations in estimating the Levelized Cost Of Transport (LCOT). These limitations stem primarily from the modeling framework, which often fails to formalize the optimization of investment and operating decisions, and neglects non linearities arising from the discrete nature of investments in conversion–reconversion, storage and transport units.

This paper introduces a general investment and operational optimization model to evaluate the LCOT of H2 for specific maritime trade routes.

🔍Their results show a robust cost differential in favor of NH3 when compared to LH2, even when accounting for the extra costs associated to the conversion of hydrogen to and from NH3.


👉 Read the article: https://bit.ly/4yqaCwd​

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