Large quantities of hydrogen are produced and consumed in industrialized countries as a chemical feedstock. The growing number of densely populated metropolitan cities has led to poor local air quality. This, coupled with the increased uncertainty associated with access to foreign fuel sources, has spurred initiatives in a number of countries to implement hydrogen as an energy carrier for transportation needs. Hydrogen may be generated by the electrolysis of water using electricity derived from wind power or photovoltaics, or by thermo-chemical processing of biomass. Hydrogen can then be reacted with oxygen in fuel cells to generate electricity, combusted in an engine to generate mechanical energy, or simply burned to generate heat. In each of these cases, water is produced in a mostly pollution-free process. Thus, a hydrogen-based energy economy could supply a closed pollution-free cycle that relies entirely on renewable resources. However, there are many aspects in the development of a hydrogen economy that still require significant research. Development of catalytic processes for economical hydrogen generation from renewable resources is a cornerstone technology to facilitate the deployment of hydrogen-powered vehicles. Also, none of the many on-board storage methods satisfy all of the volumetric, weight, safety, and cost requirements necessary for hydrogen to perform competitively with fossil fuels. Other needs include the development of inexpensive and efficient membranes or adsorbents to purify hydrogen. Improvements in both fuel-cell efficiency and cost are required. Finally, a fuel infrastructure, as well as a set of codes and standards for vehicular hydrogen power, must be put in place.
Session Topics
The proposed topics include, but will not be limited to:
- Material compatibility issues for hydrogen production, storage, and utilization
- The environmental benefits and impacts of the hydrogen energy cycle
- Hydrogen production based on renewable resources, systems integration, advances in catalytic materials, and materials issues in hydrogen generation from biomass
- On-board hydrogen storage techniques including cryogenic, high-pressure gases; complex metal hydrides; and chemical hydrides and adsorption
- Fuel-cell material and design innovations such as the development of less expensive and more efficient proton exchange membranes (PEMs), electrocatalysts, and bipolar plates
- Hydrogen fuel quality requirements for PEM fuel cells and development of novel membranes and adsorbents for hydrogen purification
- Theoretical calculations for optimal catalytic or storage materials
- Hydrogen safety, codes, standards, and regulations
- Power parks: distributed generation of hydrogen for fuel and electricity
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Invited Speakers
Invited
speakers (partial
list) include: Richard Blunk (General
Motors), Mei-Yin Chou (Georgia
Inst. of Technology), Bruce Clemens (Stanford
Univ.), Alan Cooper (Air Products
and Chemicals), Bob Evans (National
Renewable Energy Lab), I.Rex Harris (Univ.
of Birmingham), John Healey (General
Motors Research), Michael Heben (National
Renewable Energy Lab), Jan Herbst (General
Motors Research), Craig Jensen (Univ.
of Hawaii), Jay Keller (Sandia
National Labs), Peter Lindbald (Uppsala
Univ., Sweden), Ole Martin Lovvik (Univ
of Oslo, Norway), Pin-Ching Maness (National
Renewable Energy Lab), Eric McFarland (Univ.
of California-Santa Barbara), Dan Neuman (National
Inst. of Standards & Technology), Joan
Ogden (Univ. of California-Davis), Fred
Pinkerton (General Motors Research), Rick
Rocheleau (Univ. of Hawaii), Chris
San Marchi (Sandia National Labs), Sunita
Satypal (U.S. DOE), Subash Singhal (Pacific
Northwest National Lab), John Turner (National
Renewable Energy Lab), Costas Vayenas (Univ.
of Patras, Greece), Aril Virkar (Univ.
of Utah), Alicja Zaluska (McGill
Univ., Canada), Ragaiy Zidan (Savannah
River National Lab), and Andreas Zuettel (Univ.
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Tutorial Session
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Symposium Organizers
Anne Dillon
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Basic Science Dept.
MS 3216
1617 Cole Blvd.
Golden, CO 80401-3393
Tel:
303-384-6607
Fax: 303-384-6655
anne_dillon@nrel.gov
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Charles Olk
General Motors Research & Development Center
Materials & Processes Laboratory
30500 Mound Rd.
Warren, MI 48090-9055
Tel: 586-986-0611
Fax: 586-986-3091
charles.h.olk@gm.com
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Jim Ohi
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
Electric and Hydrogen Technologies and Systems
MS 1613
1617 Cole Blvd.
Golden, CO 80401-3993
Tel: 303-275-3706
Fax: 303-275-2905
jim_ohi@nrel.gov |
Constantina Filiou
European Commission - DG JRC
Institute for Energy
Clean Energies Unit
P.O. Box 2, NL-1755 ZG Petten, The Netherlands
Tel:
31-224-565171
Fax:
31-224-565623
constantina.filiou@jrc.nl
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