Resilience Assessment of Building Hydrogen Energy Systems Under Extreme Climates: Environmental-Economic Synergistic Optimization Based on Emergy and Dynamic Simulation
The frequent occurrence of extreme climate events poses a severe challenge to the reliability of building energy systems. Hydrogen energy, with its long-term storage capacity, has become a key technology carrier for enhancing building resilience. This study constructs a resilience–environment–economy co-optimization framework that couples dynamic simulation and emergy analysis. Through a five-in-one approach of physical modeling, climate scenario generation, resilience quantification, emergy accounting, and multi-objective optimization, the resilience performance of building hydrogen energy systems under the scenario of extreme heat waves combined with grid failure is evaluated. The results show that the thermal time constant deviation of the electrolyzer is 4.06%, the correlation coefficient between the generated heat wave scenario sequence and the historical measured data is 0.94, the prediction deviation of the once-in-a-century extreme temperature is 0.5%, the environmental load rate is 4.33, the Pareto front contains 127 non-dominated solutions, and the comprehensive performance of the co-optimal solution is improved by 42% to 88%. Engineering suggestions: For public buildings in hot summer and cold winter regions, the hydrogen energy system should adopt a configuration of 50–60 kW electrolyzers and 50–70 kg hydrogen storage tanks, with a key load guarantee rate of no less than 95%, and the ecological cost is 35% lower than that of diesel backup. This study provides a quantitative decision-making tool for the resilience planning of building hydrogen energy systems under extreme climate conditions and can be extended to other high climate risk areas.
Authors
- Weidong Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6101-4479)
- J Zhang
- Xiaoting Zhai
- Ashish T. Asutosh
Institutions
- Anhui University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Anhui University of Finance and Economics (CN)
- Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Anhui Science and Technology University (CN)
- University of Delaware (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Buildings
- Published
- 2026-05-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings16102002
- Primary Topic
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00