Invitation to Workshop: Hydrogen - Is there a Future?
10 March 2011 - 10 March 2011
Austria
The workshop deals with societal and technological challenges if hydrogen technology is going to meet the needs posed by our current energy situation.
Hydrogen is currently being considered as an energy carrier for supply chains based on renewable energy. However, hydrogen as a fuel and storage medium poses significant technological challenges associated with the devices that eventually will have to produce the hydrogen from renewable energy, store it, and convert it back to high-quality energy. Unavoidable efficiency losses and practical problems associated with the technology itself or with its socio-political and economic implications have led many to reject the very idea of a hydrogen-based energy system. Other and related ideas, such as methanol-based economies, may be expected to suffer similar problems.
Still, in spite of significant progress in alternative technologies such as batteries, it is not yet clear how modern societies will be able to cope with dwindling fossil and nuclear resources and mounting evidence of the adverse effects of CO2-releases without the hydrogen idea. Most developed countries therefore still actively pursue research on hydrogen through large-scale projects, for example within FP7 of the European Union. The Initial Training Network-project SUSHGEN, dealing with high-temperature PEM water electrolysis and funded by the European Union, is an example of an activity that pursues the dual purposes educating researchers for the expected needs of the hydrogen transition as well as developing improved hydrogen technology.
Arranged by the SUSHGEN, an Initial Training Network Project (ITN)
Marie Curie Actions and within the SUSHGEN framework we now have the pleasure of inviting you to a workshop dealing with some issues related to current research on hydrogen technology and its implementation in society.
The format of the workshop is tutorial, but will allow you to interact and discuss with some leading scientists in their fields.
Agenda:
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome to the Workshop by Svein Sunde, NTNU
09: 15 – 09:55 Steffen Møller-Holst SINTEF (N) /Ulrich Bünger (NTNU/Ludw. Bölkow, DE), Socio-political Challenges and Hydrogen Technology
09:55 – 10:35 Hans Jörg Fell, Statoil/Hydrogen Technologies (N), Water Electrolysis for Hydrogen Production from Wind Turbines
10:35 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30 Mogens Mogensen, DTU Risø (DK), Sustainable hydrocarbon fuels from co-electrolysis of CO2 and steam
11:30 – 12:00 Signe Kjelstrup, NTNU, The Thermodynamics of Fuel Cells and Water Electrolysis
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch at Kjelhuset, NTNU
13:15 – 14:00 Göran Lindbergh, KTH (S), Hydrogen Technology v Batteries for Transportation Applications
14:00 – 14:45 Volodymyr Yartys, IFE (N), Hydrogen Storage and Metal Hydrides
14:45 – 15:15 Magnus Rønning, NTNU, Catalysis for Hydrogen and Hydrogen-related Applications
15:15 – 15:30 Coffe Break
15:30 – 16:00 Hilde Venvik, NTNU, Gas Separation for Hydrogen Technology
16:00 – 16:30 Lars-Erik Owe, NTNU, Electrocatalysts for High-Temperature PEM Water Electrolysis
16:00 – 16:45 Closing Remarks: Is there a future? Hydrogen Research Strategies. Frode Seland, NTNU
Venue: Totalrommet, Main bldg., NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
To register:
Prof Svein Sunde or Ass prof Frode Seland
NTNU, Dept Materials Science and Engineering
NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Phone: (+47) 73 59 40 51/40 42
Fax: (+47) 73 59 11 05
E-mail : Svein.Sunde@material.ntnu.no or
E-mail : Frode.Seland@material.ntnu.no
March 10 2011, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (www.ntnu.no www.trondheim.com/engelsk/)
Hydrogen is currently being considered as an energy carrier for supply chains based on renewable energy. However, hydrogen as a fuel and storage medium poses significant technological challenges associated with the devices that eventually will have to produce the hydrogen from renewable energy, store it, and convert it back to high-quality energy. Unavoidable efficiency losses and practical problems associated with the technology itself or with its socio-political and economic implications have led many to reject the very idea of a hydrogen-based energy system. Other and related ideas, such as methanol-based economies, may be expected to suffer similar problems.
Still, in spite of significant progress in alternative technologies such as batteries, it is not yet clear how modern societies will be able to cope with dwindling fossil and nuclear resources and mounting evidence of the adverse effects of CO2-releases without the hydrogen idea. Most developed countries therefore still actively pursue research on hydrogen through large-scale projects, for example within FP7 of the European Union. The Initial Training Network-project SUSHGEN, dealing with high-temperature PEM water electrolysis and funded by the European Union, is an example of an activity that pursues the dual purposes educating researchers for the expected needs of the hydrogen transition as well as developing improved hydrogen technology.
Arranged by the SUSHGEN, an Initial Training Network Project (ITN)
Marie Curie Actions and within the SUSHGEN framework we now have the pleasure of inviting you to a workshop dealing with some issues related to current research on hydrogen technology and its implementation in society.
The format of the workshop is tutorial, but will allow you to interact and discuss with some leading scientists in their fields.
Agenda:
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome to the Workshop by Svein Sunde, NTNU
09: 15 – 09:55 Steffen Møller-Holst SINTEF (N) /Ulrich Bünger (NTNU/Ludw. Bölkow, DE), Socio-political Challenges and Hydrogen Technology
09:55 – 10:35 Hans Jörg Fell, Statoil/Hydrogen Technologies (N), Water Electrolysis for Hydrogen Production from Wind Turbines
10:35 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30 Mogens Mogensen, DTU Risø (DK), Sustainable hydrocarbon fuels from co-electrolysis of CO2 and steam
11:30 – 12:00 Signe Kjelstrup, NTNU, The Thermodynamics of Fuel Cells and Water Electrolysis
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch at Kjelhuset, NTNU
13:15 – 14:00 Göran Lindbergh, KTH (S), Hydrogen Technology v Batteries for Transportation Applications
14:00 – 14:45 Volodymyr Yartys, IFE (N), Hydrogen Storage and Metal Hydrides
14:45 – 15:15 Magnus Rønning, NTNU, Catalysis for Hydrogen and Hydrogen-related Applications
15:15 – 15:30 Coffe Break
15:30 – 16:00 Hilde Venvik, NTNU, Gas Separation for Hydrogen Technology
16:00 – 16:30 Lars-Erik Owe, NTNU, Electrocatalysts for High-Temperature PEM Water Electrolysis
16:00 – 16:45 Closing Remarks: Is there a future? Hydrogen Research Strategies. Frode Seland, NTNU
Venue: Totalrommet, Main bldg., NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
To register:
Prof Svein Sunde or Ass prof Frode Seland
NTNU, Dept Materials Science and Engineering
NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Phone: (+47) 73 59 40 51/40 42
Fax: (+47) 73 59 11 05
E-mail : Svein.Sunde@material.ntnu.no or
E-mail : Frode.Seland@material.ntnu.no
March 10 2011, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (www.ntnu.no www.trondheim.com/engelsk/)