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An experimental study on small-scale for solar hydrogen production system via a Proton Exchange Membrane electrolysis under a desert climatic condition in Ouargla region (South-East of Algeria) has been carried out, the target of this study has been first to evaluate hydrogen production by water analysis and to store the solar energy which has had the form of a hydride-metal hydrogen, after that, to investigate the performance of sophisticated commercial electrolyser (HG-60)powered by photovoltaic panels via the Power Management Unit (PMU) as a power conditioner, this paper has also a mathematical models based on real-time experiments were used to simulate both the photovoltaic system and PEM electrolyser work, along with attempting to direct linking strategy with the same experimental components of photovoltaic panels and commercial electrolyser, it was found through this study, the addition of the number of commercial electrolyser with the bank of four HG-60 stacks in series. More effective considering the improving voltage matching, with power transfer efficiency reach to 99%, also another factor is the photovoltaic panels slope on panel output power and hydrogen productivity are theoretically examined, where the proper selection of optimal tilt angle has an importance for collecting the maximum hydrogen amount, eventually, over the experiment span, the real-amount of hydrogen vented over experiment course is around 92.54l. • Experiments were used to modelling the solar hydrogen production system components. • The performance of PEM electrolyser powered by PV system was investigated. • A direct and indirect coupling PV/HG-60 water electrolyser system is investigated. • Hourly hydrogen production simulations for various panels slope levels are presented. • Panels slope angles effect on the PV/HG-60 performance is examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The Hamma (Algeria) desalination plant, briefly described in the paper, was mathematically modelled in order to check its behaviour in an advanced phase of its design. The plant will employ 288 ERI''s PX units to recover the pressure of the brine discarded from the RO membranes. This way of recovering energy is one of the most advanced and efficient now available, and its functioning is also briefly described in the paper. The devices'' behaviour in unsteady flow conditions was checked by tests carried out in the hydraulics laboratory of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. The paper reports on the experimental plant and the results obtained. On the basis of the experimental results, which showed an almost perfect hydraulic disconnection between the high and low pressure lines, the mathematical model of the Hamma plant was built using the momentum and continuity equations integrated by means of the characteristic method. The paper describes the mathematical model and sets out the results, which evidence of the plant''s safety even under the worst conditions likely to occur. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]