Unasys Navitas: A Game Changer
Unasys Navitas employs game engine software to craft an immersive, collaborative, and interactive digital replica of the Teesside Industrial complex. This innovative approach enables the amalgamation of data within the digital twin, empowering simulations that streamline decision-making processes and foster enhanced collaboration among stakeholders. The digital twin serves as a versatile platform, facilitating virtual exploration and effortless modification.
With this digital replica, stakeholders can assess various scenarios, projecting hydrogen usage, energy consumption, and carbon emissions. Moreover, it serves as a tool for community engagement, design review, construction management, progress tracking, energy network optimisation, and master planning. This expanded functionality extends beyond the design and construction phases to encompass ongoing asset management.
The ability to seamlessly integrate data from diverse sources into an intuitive environment with layers of detail provides a unique advantage, expediting decision-making and enriching collaboration. This capability proves particularly crucial in evolving markets such as green hydrogen integration into established infrastructure frameworks. The digital twin enhances information dissemination, spatial planning, and focus on existing gas and electricity networks for transporting green hydrogen from offshore wind-powered electrolysis.
System of systems:
Whole system modelling considers the complex interactions of power, gas, heat, and transport and the different ways in which our energy might be supplied, managed and consumed in the future at a regional, local and individual building level. By looking at the whole system, a collaborative environment of policy, regulation and investment can be encouraged where innovations progress more quickly from prototype to marketplace, creating low carbon economic growth
2. Identification of hydrogen offtakes within the region:
Utilise data on existing and potential future demand for hydrogen, including industrial users, transportation, and other sectors transitioning to hydrogen-based technologies
3. Asset Interdependencies mapped:
Develop a comprehensive understanding of the interdependencies among various infrastructure assets, including gas and electricity networks, hydrogen production facilities, storage systems, and transportation infrastructure
4. Land ownership and management including regulating and planning constraints:
Compile data on land ownership, regulatory frameworks, and planning constraints to inform decision-making regarding infrastructure development and deployment
5. Reuse and repurposing on and offshore infrastructure:
Identify opportunities to repurpose existing onshore and offshore infrastructure for hydrogen production, storage, and transportation, optimising resource utilisation and minimising environmental impact
6. Storage solutions:
Evaluate different storage technologies, such as underground caverns, salt domes, and compressed hydrogen tanks, to identify the most suitable solutions for the region’s hydrogen storage needs
7. Congested and difficult areas of electrical grid connectivity including power constraints:
Analyse areas of the electrical grid facing congestion and power constraints, leveraging data on grid capacity, demand patterns, and renewable energy generation to develop strategies for grid optimisation and expansion
8. Uncongested and easy areas of gas connectivity:
Identify areas of the gas network with ample capacity and low congestion to facilitate the transportation and distribution of hydrogen, leveraging existing infrastructure where possible
9. Life Cycle management:
Implement a life cycle management approach to assess the environmental and economic impacts of hydrogen infrastructure over its entire lifespan, from concept to decommissioning
10. Stakeholder engagement:
Develop a comprehensive stakeholder engagement plan to involve key stakeholders, including government agencies, industry players, local communities, and environmental groups, in the decision-making process and ensure alignment with project goals and objectives
11. Timeline: Map the regional and national infrastructure changes from now to 2035:
Develop a timeline outlining key milestones and infrastructure development initiatives from the present to 2035, considering factors such as technology advancements, policy changes, and market dynamics
12. Curtailment and grid balancing:
Implement strategies to address curtailment of renewable energy and balance grid operations, leveraging hydrogen production and storage capabilities to store excess renewable energy and provide grid stability