Design and Development of Cyber-Physical Systems for an Interoperable Renewable Hydrogen Plant

August 8th, 2022

R&D Focus Areas:
Advanced manufacturing, Technology integration process improvement, Safety and standards

Lead Organisation:
Swinburne University of Technology

Funding:
Future Energy Exports CRC (Research Project)

Status:
Active

Start date:
November 2021

Project summary description:

Advancement of innovative technologies and emergence of smart sensing, analytics, and actuation techniques has improved the efficiency of production and safety, as well as effective monitoring and compliance of standards and regulations in several manufacturing sectors. Renewable hydrogen plants have the potential to gain operational and safety advantage from advanced data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and digital innovative technologies to improve the efficiency of the plant. Other advantages include real‐time monitoring and maintenance of people and plant safety, and finally real‐time and accurate compliance assurance of standards, regulations and provenance of hydrogen from the plants.

This project will investigate the cyber‐physical systems of the following hydrogen plants:

  1. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) mini‐Redlands, a lab‐ scale plant currently implemented at QUT, and
  2. Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) hydrogen plant, a lab‐scale plant similar to the QUT mini‐Redlands that will be designed and developed as one of the main contributions of this project.

Further information:
Hydrogen 4:0 Design and Development of Cyber-Physical Systems for an Interoperable Renewable Hydrogen Plant (21.RP2.0062) – Future Energy Exports (fenex.org.au)

 

Reviewed: October 2024