The relationship between hydrogen and its application in wind energy: A systematic review

Abstract

The aim of this study was to map papers about the use of hydrogen as a fuel and its association with wind energy under siege in two databases (Web of Science and Scopus) to provide insights about this topic and verify its current context. This study was a systematic literature review and content analysis of 87 papers from Web of Science and Scopus database. The papers were analyzed from descriptive, bibliographic, methodologic, results and citation characteristics. The publications about this theme have been mostly developed using mixed research models (quantitative and qualitative), especially due to the need to validate these experimental models for practical application, can be classified into four central clusters: 1) Green hydrogen; 2) Economic Viability and Costs; 3) New Technologies; and 4) Public Policies and Case Studies, with different focuses that converging to the same objective, the use of hydrogen as an ecologically correct and profitable fuel to serve the energy production system from wind plants. From the results obtained, it is observed that the use of hydrogen as a fuel, and wind energy, are themes that have been relatively significant in recent years within the environment of industrial innovation, presenting an eclecticism, where several countries in a pulverized form are increasingly seeking invest in these technologies, which is expressed through the substantial growth in the number of papers published about these themes since 2000s.