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Tuesday, 14 March 2023
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08:30
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Registration and Refreshments
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09:00
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Chair’s Opening Remarks
Chair: Greg Harris, Chief Commercial Officer, Intelligent Energy
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09:05
Keynote
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How the UK Government is Supporting the Hydrogen Economy
Ian Graffy, Senior Policy Advisor, Hydrogen Economy, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
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Hydrogen Generation and Supply
Chair: Greg Harris, Chief Commercial Officer, Intelligent Energy
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Storage Considerations
Chair: Simon Rees, Digital Engineering Director, Element Materials Technology
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09:40
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Hydrogen technology opportunities identified in the North Sea Transition Deal study: Technology driving green energy growth
Martyn Tulloch, Head of Energy System Integration, Net Zero Technology Centre
- Green hydrogen technology opportunities
- Blue hydrogen technology opportunities
- Midstream hydrogen technology opportunities
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Overview of Hydrogen Storage in UK and Europe
Stuart Doherty, Senior Process Engineer, Atkins SNC-Lavalin
- Why is storage required and selecting appropriate storage options (e.g. underground vs. above ground storage considerations)
- Overview of underground storage in UK and Europe
- H2 storage end to end project considerations
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10:05
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De-risking the hydrogen transition by considering Nuclear Enabled Hydrogen
Allan Simpson, Technical Lead, Nuclear Enabled Hydrogen, National Nuclear Laboratory
- Technologies and their development status for Nuclear Enabled Hydrogen
- Benefits of Nuclear Enabled Hydrogen and how this integrates with current UK policy
- Challenges around the development and deployment of NEH
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Hydrogen Transportation and Storage Infrastructure - Assessment of Requirements up to 2035
Steph Jones, Engineering Consultant, Frazer-Nash Consultancy
- The role of hydrogen transportation and storage infrastructure in the emerging hydrogen economy
- High level projections for transport and storage infrastructure requirements in 2035
- Summary of conclusions from our study for BEIS
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10:30
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Low Carbon Hydrogen Production to Enable the Hydrogen Economy
Caragh McWhirr, Head of Hydrogen Strategy, Xodus Group
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Pressure Systems
Chair: Simon Rees, Digital Engineering Director, Element Materials Technology
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Pressure Vessel Testing - Current challenges in Sensing
Ryan Marks, Applications Development Manager, MISTRAS Group
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10:55
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Hydrogen – from production to end-use
Olga Dubinin, Research Engineer, EDF Energy
Peter Smith, Development Manager, EDF Energy
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Sealing Hydrogen: The Challenges and Opportunities
Alex Lattimer, New Energy Business Development Director, Flexitallic
- Overview of the hydrogen sector from the perspective of sealing
- Hydrogen vs other media: what are the differences and similarities?
- Options and practical considerations for sealing hydrogen: best available technologies
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11:20
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Networking Refreshment Break
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Hydrogen Generation and Supply
Chair: Thanos Moros, Independent Consultant
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Transporting and Distributing Hydrogen
Chair: Simon Rees, Digital Engineering Director, Element Materials Technology
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11:55
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Designing PEM Fuel Cells for the Real World
Ryan Williams, Systems and Design Engineering Manager, Johnson Matthey
- Summary of the key design challenges involved with hydrogen fuel cell technology
- How these apply to real world, high volume applications
- How Johnson Matthey are engineering solutions to these challenges
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Reducing the Cost of Hydrogen Distribution
Stephen Livermore, Senior Systems Modelling Engineer, LIFTEH2
- The need for better hydrogen infrastructure
- Understanding the overall cost of hydrogen transport by road
- Cost comparison of transporting hydrogen by trailers and mobile refuelers for mobility applications
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12:20
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Real-world challenges in the commercial delivery of zero-emission, distributed power from green hydrogen
Ian Wilkinson, Chief Operating Officer, GeoPura
- Case study examples of how hydrogen is currently being used by companies including HS2, Balfour Beatty, National Grid, Uniper, BBC, Netflix and Cadent Gas to provide zero-emission power to their projects Overview of fuel cell-based Hydrogen Power Unit
- Challenges faced by GeoPura in the scale up and delivery of zero emission power
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Green Ammonia’s future role in Net Zero
Tristan Davenne, Principal Engineer, Energy Research Unit, Science and Technology Facilities Council
- How is green ammonia made
- Ammonia synthesis plant using Intermittent Renewable Energy
- Applications for green ammonia
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12:50
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Networking Lunch
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Improving Efficiency in Hydrogen Production
Chair: Thanos Moros, Independent Consultant
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Material Compatibility Challenges
Chair: Simon Rees, Digital Engineering Director, Element Materials Technology
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14:00
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Water, Waste Heat and Hydrogen
Iain Scott, Business Development Manager, Veolia
- Water is central to Hydrogen production at scale
- Utilising Waste heat from electrolysis to power desalination
- The challenges of deployment at scale
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Material Considerations and Embrittlement caused by Hydrogen Service
Reza Beheshty, Material & Corrosion and Welding Specialist, Fluor
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14:25
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Hybrid Water-Splitting Technology: A Novel Approach to Improving Hydrogen Production Efficiency
Bahman Amini Horri, Senior Lecturer of Chemical Engineering, University of Surrey
Samantha Nicholson, Fellow Process Engineer, Fluor
- The challenges with the current water splitting technologies
- Thermochemical looping and hybrid systems
- Surrey's water-splitting technology: a highly efficient innovative approach
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Addressing the Engineering Challenges in the Hydrogen Economy using Smarter Test Methodologies
Mark Eldridge, Director of Hydrogen, Element Materials Technology
- The Challenges of the Energy Transition to Hydrogen
- Material Science tells us where to focus
- How Element Materials Technology is supporting infrastructures and materials transitioning to Hydrogen and addressing these challenges
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14:50
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Unconventional Manufacturing to reduce the CapEx, OpEx and Embodied Carbon of hydrogen electrolysers
Iain Berment-Parr, Senior Research Engineer, The Manufacturing Technology Centre
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Integrity and In-Line Inspection (ILI) Challenges in Repurposing Natural Gas Pipelines
Dominic Wynne, Senior Technical Solutions Specialist, ROSEN Group
- Overview of the integrity challenges facing future fuel pipelines
- Requirements of In-line Inspection Tool Technology
- Case Studies of Hydrogen and CO2 pipeline In-Line Inspections
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15:15
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Simulation and modelling capabilities of COMSOL® for the Hydrogen industry
Hamid Rafiee, Applications Engineer, COMSOL UK
- Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics® and its modules
- How simulation and modelling can help with solving R&D problems within the hydrogen economy
- Live model demonstration
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Composite and Hydrogen – Addressing the challenge of Cryogenics
Marcus Walls-Bruck, Head of Hydrogen Technologies, National Composites Centre
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15:40
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Networking Refreshment Break
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Updates from Hydrogen Projects
Chair: Greg Harris, Chief Commercial Officer, Intelligent Energy
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16:10
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Optimising hydrogen production for an industrial cluster
Chris O’Connor, Head of Hydrogen, EQUANS UK & Ireland
- What is the role for hydrogen in delivering the world’s first net zero industrial cluster?
- How can an end-end hydrogen network be modelled for an entire region?
- How can electrolytic hydrogen projects be designed and engineered to minimise the levelised cost of hydrogen production?
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16:35
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HyNet Hydrogen Production Project
Tommy Isaac, Head of Hydrogen Research, Progressive Energy
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17:00
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Digital Tools for Solving Complex Hydrogen Ecosystem Challenges
Rushab Shah, Digital Strategy Lead, Ricardo
- Taking a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology and approach across an entire ecosystem to drive the right scenario to deploy
- How this data driven approach can help to manage the simultaneous transition to hydrogen for infrastructure, vehicles and operational strategies whilst mitigating risks to current operations due to supply and demand challenges
- How different data sources can be layered upon the proposed plans to maximise the positive impact at an environmental and socioeconomic level
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17:25
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Chair’s Closing Remarks
Chair: Greg Harris, Chief Commercial Officer, Intelligent Energy
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17:35
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End of Day One
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18:00
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Networking Drinks Reception
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