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Increasing fuelling capacity of hydrogen trains while minimising costs at Provincie Groningen : Designing hydrogen fuelling infrastructure in railway
Balha, A. (2023) Increasing fuelling capacity of hydrogen trains while minimising costs at Provincie Groningen : Designing hydrogen fuelling infrastructure in railway.
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| Abstract: | Provincie Groningen is transitioning to hydrogen trains for sustainable passenger railway transport, aiming to replace their diesel trains with 50 hydrogen trains by 2035. This shift necessitates a new hydrogen fuelling infrastructure. This study is part of the Railway Network Design process, focusing on designing a hydrogen fuelling infrastructure. It tackles the core problem of inadequate hydrogen fuelling capacity, by the development of a Multi-Level Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model. The MILP minimises the opening costs of shunting yards, the traveling costs of trains, the location costs of fuelling installations and hydrogen storages, minimises the pipeline costs. Despite similarities to a Facility Location Problem, the multi-level nature makes it unique, requiring an optimal balance between both levels. Heuristic algorithms are developed to solve the MILP due to the presence of a large number of binary decision variables in the objective function. The study contributes to the researched field of railway hydrogen fuelling infrastructure design. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Clients: | Provincie Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 31 mathematics, 55 traffic technology, transport technology, 58 process technology |
| Programme: | Industrial Engineering and Management BSc (56994) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/96862 |
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