Karlsruhe offers excellent conditions for the necessary H2 import infrastructure with its Rhine ports, municipal utility companies, medium-sized industrial research facilities and major relevant players in the area such as EnBW, MiRO, Siemens and Daimler Truck, as well as good connections to the road and rail network. Concrete, integrated plans for this have been lacking to date, which is why the project should also develop these with connections to the Alsace/France and Basel/Switzerland regions.

Many assumptions have to be made and parameters varied for the targeted selection and design of individual components of the four process fields of delivery, treatment/conversion/storage, local generation and release of H2, their configuration and dimensioning.

For this purpose, existing models from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences were expanded and parameterized with the technical and economic data of the participating companies. The model identifies system structures, overall optimized investments, the plant design and its control strategy with a multi-criteria target function such as costs or emissions.

The model enables a comprehensive evaluation and identification of emission- and cost-optimized system structures, taking into account the local boundary conditions.

The final report of the project can be found on the page linked below.