Models for a hydrogen supply chain in the nordics with compressed hydrogen tube trailers and compressed hydrogen shipping

Abstract This paper developed techno-economic models for a hydrogen supply chain in the Nordic context using compressed hydrogen tube trailers for inland transport and compressed hydrogen ships for international hydrogen export. The dynamic transfer operations used in the investigated hydrogen supply chain were modelled in Aspen Plus Dynamics. Based on these models, reduced techno-economic models were developed for all supply chain elements, which were further optimized with respect to minimal supply chain costs. Results show that the total supply chain costs increase linearly with shipping distance and decrease logarithmically with hydrogen throughput.