Patent ID: 11929613
Assignee: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of determining and utilizing predicted available power resources from one or more renewable power sources for one or more industrial gas plants comprising one or more storage resources and a hydrogen production plant, the method executable by at least one hardware processor, the method comprising:
obtaining historical time-dependent environmental data associated with the one or more renewable power sources;
obtaining historical time-dependent operational characteristic data associated with the one or more renewable power sources;
training a machine learning model based on the historical time-dependent environmental data and the historical time-dependent operational characteristic data;
executing the trained machine learning model to predict available power resources for the one or more industrial gas plants for a pre-determined future time period for production of hydrogen via the hydrogen production plant and storage of hydrogen via hydrogen storage of the one or more storage resources; and
controlling the one or more industrial gas plants in response to the predicted available power resources for the pre-determined future time period for utilization of available power from the one or more renewable power sources for hydrogen production via the hydrogen production plant and hydrogen stored in the hydrogen storage to obtain a predicted determination of hydrogen produced via the hydrogen production plant for the predicted available power resources, wherein the controlling of the one or more industrial gas plants comprises maximizing the usage of the predicted available power resources to obtain a maximum production of hydrogen for the pre-determined future time period.