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Energy Management of a Renewable-Powered Alkaline Electrolyzer System: A Comparative Study of Nonlinear Optimization Methods
June 12, 2026
Abstract
Energy management plays a crucial role in achieving efficient and sustainable operation of industrial energy systems. With the increasing integration of renewable electricity and the growing complexity of hydrogen production networks, effective control strategies are required to minimize operational costs and carbon footprint. However, the uncertain nature of renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic (PV) power, complicates their accurate forecasting and challenges the optimal energy management of system components. To deal with uncertainties, the rolling horizon approach (RHA) provides a practical framework for adaptive decision-making by repeatedly solving optimization problems over moving time windows while updating system data in real time. In RHA-based energy management, linear or linearized system models are often employed and optimized by linear methods to reduce computational complexity; however, these simplifications can compromise physical realism and lead to suboptimal decisions. Although RHA can also incorporate local, or global deterministic and stochastic algorithms for nonlinear problems, such approaches frequently suffer from high computational effort, slow convergence, local optima, and difficulty in ensuring constraint satisfaction in large-scale nonlinear systems. To overcome these limitations, this work employs the novel hybrid optimization method "BO-IPOPT"-a combination of Bayesian Optimization (BO) for global exploration and the Interior Point OPTimizer (IPOPT) for rapid local refinement. Applied to an industrial hydrogen production system, BO-IPOPT outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in accuracy and robustness by achieving lower operational costs at the same CPU time while satisfying all constraints. Finally, the influence of the uncertainties in PV generation on the performance of the energy management system is analyzed.
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BO-IPOPT, Energy management, Renewable hydrogen system, Rolling horizon approach
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Kyriakidis L, Mustafa Kamal JB, Bublitz S, Dorneanu B, Arellano-Garcia H. Energy Management of a Renewable-Powered Alkaline Electrolyzer System: A Comparative Study of Nonlinear Optimization Methods. Systems and Control Transactions 5:2488-2496 (2026) https://doi.org/10.69997/sct.177956
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Kyriakidis L: German Aerospace Center, Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes, Cottbus, Germany [ORCID]
Mustafa Kamal JB: German Aerospace Center, Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes, Cottbus, Germany [ORCID]
Bublitz S: German Aerospace Center, Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes, Cottbus, Germany [ORCID]
Dorneanu B: Brandenburg University of Technology, Chair of Process and Plant Technology, Cottbus, Germany [ORCID]
Arellano-Garcia H: Brandenburg University of Technology, Chair of Process and Plant Technology, Cottbus, Germany [ORCID]
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Systems and Control Transactions
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2026
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2026-06-12
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