Future Applications of Hydrogen for a Low Carbon Economy

Name: Future Applications of Hydrogen for a Low Carbon Economy
Start: 2021-03-03T09:30:00
Location: Seminar

Seminar, Online

03 March 2021

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Overview

Following the commitment from Government to legislate for net-zero emissions by 2050, hydrogen is slated to play a role in the reduction of emissions from power, transport, and industrial sectors.

This online seminar will look to address hydrogen’s role in low-carbon energy systems and the engineering challenges of replacing natural gas in the gas distribution network with hydrogen to reduce carbon emissions.

Hydrogen can be an extremely useful part of the energy mix, but engineers need to understand the inherent challenges and potential of the technologies before they can be used more widely in a net-zero future energy economy.

Join his live online event to discuss:

Hydrogen across the transport sector including heavy duty, aviation and rail
Technological challenges and future prospects for power generation using hydrogen
Engineering challenges of replacing natural gas with hydrogen in the gas distribution network
Inherent challenges and potential of hydrogen technologies before they can be used more widely in a net-zero future energy economy

Confirmed seminar speakers:

David Joffe, Head of Carbon Budgets, Climate Change Committee
Heidi Genoni, Project Manager, Arup
David Shirres, Editor, Rail Engineer
Amanda Simpson, Vice President, Research and Technology, Airbus Americas Inc.
Mike Muldoon, Head of Business Development, Alstom UK & Ireland
Penny Atkins, Deputy Director, Advanced Engineering Centre, University of Brighton
Stuart Hillmansen, Senior Lecturer in Electrical Energy Systems, University of Birmingham
Bill Ireland, CEO, Logan Energy
Keith Owen, Head of Systems Development and Energy Strategy, Northern Gas Networks
Joseph Howe, Executive Director, Thornton Energy Institute, University of Chester
Guto Owen, Co-ordinator for HyCymru, Wales Hydrogen Trade Association & Director, Ynni Glân
Jeppe Grue, Technical Director, Bioenergy and Thermal Power, COWI
Ghenadie Bulat, Gas Turbine Technologies Manager, Siemens Energy
Mounir Mossolly, Technical Advisor & Lead Engineer, Onshore/Offshore Engineering, Technip Energies

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Day 1

09:30 - Seminar Programme

Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Session One
09:30	Chair’s Opening Remarks
09:35	The roles for hydrogen in reaching Net Zero David Joffe, Head of Carbon Budgets, Climate Change Committee How hydrogen use can and should contribute to achieving Net Zero What the hydrogen production mix might look like in different Net Zero scenarios Implications for what the Government’s hydrogen strategy needs to achieve in the 2020s
09:50	Question and Answer Session
09:55	Hydrogen for heating Heidi Genoni, Energy Advisory, Programme & Project Manager, Arup The challenge of decarbonising heat Advancements made in hydrogen technologies Our potential future homes
10:10	Question and Answer Session
10:15	Hydrogen on the move - weaning transport off petroleum David Shirres, Editor, Rail Engineer Transport must stop using petroleum if the UK is to achieve its 2050 net-zero carbon commitment. Although hydrogen is one solution, what contribution can it make? The challenges of deploying hydrogen vehicle technology and supporting infrastructure Hydrogen has a much lower efficiency that batteries, how much of a problem is this?
10:30	Question and Answer Session
10:35	Break
	Hydrogen across the transport sector
11:00	Hydrogen in the Rail Sector Mike Muldoon, Head of Business Development, UK and Ireland, Alstom Why hydrogen is key to rail decarbonisation How hydrogen compliments electrification across the UK rail network What Alstom is doing to bring hydrogen to rail
11:15	Question and Answer Session
11:20	Hydrogen in the heavy duty transport sector Penny Atkins, Deputy Director, Advanced Engineering Centre, University of Brighton Decarbonisation options for high energy/power applications Potential for hydrogen engines – performance and emissions Assessing the options - lifecycle emissions and costs
11:35	Question and Answer Session
11:40	HydroFLEX – the UK’s first Mainline Approved Hydrogen Train Stuart Hillmansen, Reader, Railway Traction Systems, University of Birmingham Drivers for Hydrogen applications in the railway industry Integrating fuel cells into railway propulsion systems Interaction with electrification systems
11:55	Question and Answer Session
12:00	ZEROe - Powering Aviation with Hydrogen Amanda Simpson, Vice President Research and Technology, Americas, Airbus Hydrogen is safe, versatile, lightweight, and has an energy density nearly three time superior to jet fuel Airbus has been working for over two decades in the field of zero-emission flight Cross-industry collaboration will be required to drive down infrastructure and production costs
12:15	Question and Answer Session
12:20	End of Session One
	Lunch Break
Session Two
	Chair’s Opening Remarks
	Hydrogen across the energy sector
13:20	Hydrogen and Sector Shifting Bill Ireland, CEO, Logan Energy Shifting electricity to energy The pragmatic view of hydrogen Case studies from Logan Energy
13:35	Question and Answer Session
13:40	Net Zero: Pathways to a future hydrogen economy Keith Owen, Head of Systems Development and Energy Strategy, Northern Gas Networks What is the heat challenge? What might a hydrogen transition look like? What is industry doing now to establish a low carbon future?
13:55	Question and Answer Session
14:00	The North West Hydrogen Alliance Joseph Howe, Executive Director and Professor of the Thornton Energy Institute, University of Chester Hydrogen Infrastructure Innovation Investment
14:15	Question and Answer Session
14:20	The hydrogen economy opportunity for Wales Guto Owen, Co-ordinator for HyCymru, the Wales Hydrogen Trade Association & Director, Ynni Glân The advantages which Wales has in advancing hydrogen Emerging hydrogen projects in Wales Policy & Finance & Skills : challenges which face every country
14:35	Question and Answer Session
14:40	Break
15:05	Overview of biofuels and power-to-x Jeppe Grue, Technical Director, Green Fuels and Thermal Power, COWI Overview of current state of technology and processes Status and experience from Danish power-to-x projects
15:20	Question and Answer Session
15:25	Hydrogen Combustion in Siemens Gas Turbines Ghenadie Bulat, Manager of Gas Turbine Technologies, Siemens Energy The role of hydrogen in in the future energy landscape Hydrogen combustion in Siemens gas turbines Case studies of using hydrogen fuelled gas turbines
15:40	Question and Answer Session
15:45	Technological Challenges & Future Prospect for Power Generation using Hydrogen Mounir Mossolly, Technical Advisor & Lead Engineer, Onshore/Offshore Engineering, Technip Energies Understanding the risks and challenges for hydrogen combustion vs. natural gas combustion in Gas Turbines Comprehending the effect of Hydrogen content in natural gas blends on carbon footprint reduction Overview on market offerings for Hydrogen Gas Turbines and technology maturity levels
16:00	Question and Answer Session
16:05	Chair's Closing Remarks
16:15	End of Seminar

David Joffe: Head of Carbon Budgets, Climate Change Committee

David is the Head of Carbon Budgets at the Climate Change Committee, where he’s worked since 2007. He oversees the Committee’s advice on the levels of UK carbon budgets, as well as the pathways to meet these and the Net Zero target. He oversaw the scenarios analysis and recommendations for the CCC’s recent advice on the Sixth Carbon Budget that sets out five pathways to Net Zero for the UK.

David oversees the CCC’s energy system analysis and led the CCC’s Hydrogen Review in 2018. He has a PhD on hydrogen infrastructure from Imperial College London.

Heidi Genoni: Energy Advisory, Programme & Project Manager, Arup

Heidi is part of Arup's Energy Advisory team and is experienced in delivering multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects. In recent years her work has focused on whole system energy transition and particularly the role that innovation and hydrogen can play to support the achievement of a decarbonised future. She has helped lead and shape Arup’s thought leadership in the role of the hydrogen economy. Her background is in programme & project management and she is a chartered civil engineer. She is currently leading the Arup+ team on the Hy4Heat programme.

David Shirres: Editor, Rail Engineer

David retired from Network Rail in 2009 after a 38-year railway career that included rolling stock engineering, asset management and infrastructure projects.

In 2010, he became a writer for Rail Engineer magazine and has been the magazine’s editor since 2016. He has written over 200 features for the magazine including a number on rail decarbonisation. He also writes a regular railway engineering column for Professional Engineering magazine.

David is also actively involved in the IMechE Railway Division in Scotland having been Chair and Secretary of the Division’s Scottish Centre.

Amanda Simpson: Vice President, Research and Technology, Airbus Americas Inc.

Amanda Simpson is the Vice President for Research and Technology at Airbus Americas and is responsible for coordinating technology development, research activities, and innovation for Airbus in the western hemisphere.

Previously she held several executive positions in the U.S. Federal Government including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy, Executive Director of the U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives, plus senior positions in the office of the Army Acquisition Executive and the Bureau of Industry and Security.

Prior to her government appointments, Ms. Simpson had a distinguished program management career in the aerospace industry working for Raytheon, Hughes Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, and Hughes Helicopters.

Ms. Simpson is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. She serves on the boards of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Advanced Thermal Batteries Inc., and chairs the board of directors of the Airbus Institute for Engineering Research.

Ms. Simpson holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate, is a Certified Flight Instructor, and has advanced degrees in Physics, Engineering, and Business.

Mike Muldoon: Head of Business Development, Alstom UK & Ireland

Mike has worked in the rail industry since 1989 starting his career designing trains for the UK, Europe and Asia. He moved into project roles running a number of rolling stock and signalling projects for Alstom in London before becoming Tenders Director for Alstom UK&I in 2010. Early in 2017 he took on his current role, in which he is responsible for leading and overseeing the innovation, business development and sales activities of Alstom in the UK and Ireland, with the specific additional remit to promote and apply Alstom’s hydrogen train technology in the UK market.

Penny Atkins: Deputy Director, Advanced Engineering Centre, University of Brighton

Penny has an industrial background in the automotive industry, with nearly 20 years in product development, research and technology strategy at Ricardo and JLR. As Head of Technology Strategy at Ricardo, she led techno economic assessments of transport technology across heavy duty on and off road, marine and passenger car sectors. As Deputy Director of the Advanced Engineering Centre at University of Brighton, she leads the Advanced Propulsion Centre spoke for thermal propulsion systems and thermal efficiency, and her research work focuses on clean, efficient combustion propulsion with recent work on hydrogen, hydrogen methane blends and ammonia fuels.

Stuart Hillmansen: Senior Lecturer in Electrical Energy Systems, Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham

Dr Stuart Hillmansen is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Energy Systems within the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Birmingham. He completed a PhD in Imperial College London. His main area of research interest is in traction systems for use in railway vehicles, and modeling and measurement of energy consumption for railway systems (both AC and DC). His team have developed the 1st Hydrogen Fueled locomotive in the UK. The group are currently partnering with Porterbrook to develop a mainline tri-mode hydrogen train. He is a member of the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education. He leads the Railway Traction Research Group whose portfolio of activities is supported by the railway industry and government. He has authored a number of papers on railway energy consumption and presented the work at a number of international conferences. He is on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit.

Bill Ireland: Chief Executive Officer, Logan Energy

Bill Ireland (MA, CEng, MCIBSE, MFEANI) has over 30 years’ experience in engineering with specialist knowledge in energy within the built environment, alternative technologies, sustainable design, and innovation in technology.

As Operations Director in 2008 then MD and CEO since 2012, Bill has made the Logan Energy group and its subsidiaries the designers, integrators, installers, and maintainers of the majority of the UK’s installed capacity of fuel cell distributed generation and developed the business into a world leading provider of hydrogen-based solutions for energy storage and energy sector shifting.

Bill believes that proven hydrogen and fuel cell technologies integrated with existing energy and transport systems will play an increasing role in our future energy solutions, providing lower cost, security of supply, and alternative transport fuels delivering reduction in carbon dioxide and other pollutant emissions.

Keith Owen: Head of Systems Development & Energy Strategy, Northern Gas Networks

Keith has led and supports a variety of energy research programmes such as the NGN H21 programme and the Cadent / NGN HyDeploy project. He also leads the development of the NGN InTEGReL facility, a collaboration between Industry, Academia and wider stakeholders to create a whole energy systems research and development centre, which aims to drive out the benefits of energy sector coupling and accelerate pathways to net Zero.

Keith is the chair of the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers Hydrogen Committee, seeking to revise all UK gas industry standards to support the transition to 100% hydrogen.

Joseph Howe: Executive Director, Thornton Energy Institute, University of Chester

Professor Joseph Howe’s background is in geography and planning, environmental science and environmental engineering. Current research funded projects include: UK Hydrogen Economy; Industrial Decarbonisation Planning and Hydrogen Technology Development. External roles include founding Director of the NW Hydrogen Alliance, academic lead on National Grid’s Future of Gas Programme, Engineering Construction Industry Training Board lead on skills and qualifications.

Guto Owen: Director, Ynni Glân

HyCymru aims to advance the hydrogen economy in Wales and is a representative body for a cross-section of companies and organisations, based both inside and outside the country.

Guto's consultancy, Ynni Glân, specialises in fuel cells and hydrogen and Guto has recently been appointed as Hydrogen Director for Menter Môn's Holyhead Hydrogen Hub project which complements Ynys Môn Energy Island.

Guto has 20+ years’ experience in community energy, business development, policy and advocacy and views the emerging hydrogen economy in the 2020s as a golden opportunity for Wales.

Jeppe Grue: Technical Director, Bioenergy and Thermal Power, COWI

Jeppe Grue is one of Denmark's leading specialists on power-to-x and has more than 20 years' experience in the energy sector. He is Technical Director with responsibility of new energy technologies, e.g. electrolysis, power-to-x and carbon capture. He is project manager and technical lead on several power-to-x and carbon-capture projects. He has worked as process engineer and chief specialist on increased operational efficiency of power plants, biomass for heat and power generation, carbon capture, biomass and coal co-firing, heat pumps and process optimisation of industrial processes.

Mounir Mossolly: Technical Advisor and Lead Engineer, Technip Energies

Mr. Mossolly holds a PhD in Project and Programme Management and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. He is a chartered engineer and has been the Honorary Chairman of IMechE Groupe France since 2018.

In the context of his expertise in turbomachinery, Mr. Mossolly held leading positions within TechnipFMC in Paris in some of the largest, most complex and challenging LNG and floating LNG projects worldwide.

Mr. Mossolly is a technical advisor to Technip Energies “Energy Transition Hub” and to the company’s product lines that are leading the development of low carbon solutions, many of them centred on hydrogen..

Ghenadie Bulat: Gas Turbine Technologies Manager, Siemens Energy

Dr. Ghenadie Bulat is the Manager of Gas Turbine Technologies at Siemens Energy where he leads a global team of highly qualified experts of industrial and aeroderivative gas turbines. He drives the innovation and excellence in all core disciplines required for the success of the gas turbine products of the future.

Ghenadie joined Siemens in 2003, a Chartered Engineer, a Member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The Combustion Institute, and a visiting professor of combustion at Imperial College London.

His experience includes more than 17 years of engineering and management within Product Development and Technology Innovation. As a former Product Owner, he was a global authority for the product development of small gas turbines. Previously, he was managing combustion R&D projects, testing and support of new products and technologies of Siemens gas turbines. His contribution is reflected in several combustion design improvements, peer reviewed paper publications and patents.

Dr. Bulat obtained his PhD from Imperial College London, and his engineering degree from Technical University of Moldova.

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