Nonlinear operability thresholds in offshore green hydrogen production: Multi-objective system design under metocean uncertainty
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 277, 157530
How do wind and wave limits on cargo transfer shape the design of an offshore hydrogen system? The study combines eleven years (2014–2024) of hourly ERA5 data for a North Atlantic and a North Sea site with an hourly production, storage and vessel model, and searches for designs with NSGA-II and NSGA-III across seven optimizer seeds. Performance responds sharply when transfer limits are strict, then levels off as transfer capability improves. The TOPSIS-selected North Atlantic design (US$8.53/kg, 1,966 t/year, 99.0% transfer success) outperformed the North Sea design (US$11.78/kg, 1,427 t/year, 89.4%); both used about 50 t of storage.
Cite (BibTeX)
@article{Ahmad2026Operability,
author = {Ahmad, Owais and Crawford, Curran and Ishaq, Haris},
title = {Nonlinear operability thresholds in offshore green hydrogen production: Multi-objective system design under metocean uncertainty},
journal = {International Journal of Hydrogen Energy},
volume = {277},
pages = {157530},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1016/j.ijhydene.2026.157530}
}