August 2018

Volume 10

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Issue 4The planned vessel, named Water-Go-Round, would carry
84 passengers and stretch 70 feet long. Construction is
expected to start early this fall in Alameda, California, andthe vessel is slated to hit the water a year later.

A ferry that runs on hydrogen fuelcells is coming to San Francisco

The project is one of myriad efforts by cities in the U.S.
and globally to clean up their passenger ships. While ferries contribute a relatively small slice of total maritime air
pollution and carbon emissions, they typically operatearound densely populated areas, where emissions are
known to pose the biggest health threats.

After Tom Escher took over his family’s century-old ferrycompany in 1997, he wanted to buy a zero-emissions
vessel that could whisk tourists around San Francisco
without spewing harmful pollutants. Escher, who is 71,
said he worried about the health of his four grandchildren and the environment they’d live in.

Ferries, tug boats, and other harbor craft can be particularly dirty because they often use the same inefficient engines for decades, said Christina Wolfe, who manages theEnvironmental Defense Fund’s air quality program forports. “They’re old, high-horsepower, and high-usage,
and that just makes a recipe for very high emissions,” shesaid of ferry engines.

Some local officials are considering more straightforward
solutions, like installing efficient Tier 4 diesel engines oradding onshore electricity supplies, so boats can turn off“Our boats were getting greener, and we were cleaning
their engines while at port. Other places are taking a
up, but I said, ‘Are we doing the best we can?’” Escher
more ambitious tack: In rural Alabama, the Gee’s Bend
recalled.
Ferry operators are replacing John Deere engines with a
A few years ago, he began searching in earnest for a fos- battery-electric propulsion system, which will make it
the first zero-emissions ferry of its kind in the United
sil fuel-free ship, but he quickly hit a wall. Even as batStates. A ferry in Skagit County, Washington, may soon
tery-powered cars and rooftop solar panels proliferated
on land, the maritime industry had been slow to embrace follow suit.
clean energy at sea.
The Water-Go-Round hydrogen ferry is also representative of a larger push by the global shipping industry to
An innovative ferry project could soon change that.
clean up dirty fuel-burning ships. In April, the International Maritime Organization adopted a landmark deal to reOn Monday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB)
duce greenhouse gas emissions from ships, a policy thatannounced a $3 million grant to help build a hydrogen
will require a massive uptake of zero-emissions vessels.
fuel cell ferry. Once built, it would be be the first of its
kind in the United States, and the first commercial hydroContinued on page 3
gen fuel cell ferry in the world.
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ship’s operations, performance, and maintenance.

Passenger ships are often first to deploy cutting-edge
ship technologies because they consume far less fuel andpower than ocean-going vessels. Ferries typically keep
close to shore, making it easier to recharge batteries orrefill hydrogen tanks. And ferry operators face strong
public pressure to clean up because they carry throngs ofpassengers who—unlike lifeless box containers—inhale
the diesel fumes, hear the growling engines, and see thenoxious black plumes rising from exhaust funnels.

The $3 million CARB grant is part of California’s larger $20
million investment in zero-emissions off-road demonstration projects. The funding comes from revenues raised by
the state’s cap-and-trade program. Water-Go-Round’s
partners have committed another $2.5 million to help
launch the vessel.

A boat like Water-Go-Round won’t have such concerns.

The planned ferry would carry onboard storage tanks withenough hydrogen to last about two days before a truckrefuels them at port. Lithium-ion batteries and electricmotors will round out the ship’s power system. Pratt said
the goal is to use green hydrogen supplies when possible.

Fuel cells combine hydrogen and oxygen to produce elecMarine fuel cells face several hurdles to wider adoption.
tricity. Unlike diesel engines, they don’t emit any carbon
The technology is still relatively expensive, and shipbuilddioxide or health-threatening pollutants — only a little
ers and maritime officials in many places may be less faheat and water vapor. “I’m going to drink the exhaust,”
pledged Escher, who is investing in the new ferry, in addi- miliar with hydrogen than, say, batteries. If successful, aproject like Water-Go-Round could nevertheless drive intion to operating it.
terest in fuel cells and hydrogen—particularly where offiHydrogen itself isn’t always “zero-emissions.” The mostcials or companies are seeking to curb maritime pollution,common methods for producing hydrogen today require said Alan Lloyd, the former secretary of California’s Envifossil fuels—and thus result in some greenhouse gases.
ronmental Protection Agency.
But more facilities are starting to produce “green” hydrogen with renewable electricity or biogas.
“People are going to want to follow that lead,” said Lloyd,
a senior research fellow at the University of Texas at AusThe idea to build Water-Go-Round came from an exten- tin’s Energy Institute.
sive 2016 study by Sandia National Labs. Researchers esA similar narrative is already playing out with batterytablished that a high-speed passenger ferry powered byhydrogen fuel cells was feasible from a technical, regula- powered ferries, after Norway launched a fully electric car
tory, and economic perspective. Around two dozen early ferry in 2015.
ship projects already deploy the technology, primarily in
Dan Berentson, the director of public works in Skagit
Europe.
County, in northwest Washington, said his team is closely
following developments in Scandinavia, where more elecJoseph Pratt, who co-authored the Sandia study, is now
tric ferries are expected to ply the fjords. Skagit County
the CEO of Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine, one of
officials are now hoping to build their own electric boat toseveral partners in the CARB grant project.
replace their county’s clunky 39-year-old ferry. If all goes“We’re at the point where we’ve studied it enough, we’ve to plan, it could launch in 2020.
figured out how you can do it,” Pratt said from San Fran“Our hope is that the industry will embrace this,” Berencisco. “Now we just have to do it.”tson said.
The plan is for Escher’s company, Red and White Fleet, tooperate the vessel for the first three months—and even- Source: https://grist.org/article/a-ferry-that-runs-ontually buy it to add to its fleet. Meanwhile, scientists athydrogen-fuel-cells-is-coming-to-san-francisco/
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Vehicle News
Toyota sends the world’s first hydrogenpowered ship on a six-year voyage

A northern European tour is scheduled for next year, including the UK. The crew aims to reach Tokyo in 2020, intime for the Olympic Games.
The ship is captained by professional racer Victorien
Erussard, accompanied by leader of exploration Jérôme
Delafosse, a deep-sea diver and filmmaker.
During their journey, the team will produce documentary
content about reliable energy sources. This will be broadcast through an eight-episode series on French TV network Planète+ and as a web series shared on social media.

"Energy Observer is a conversion that has a double meanToyota is sponsoring the world's first autonomous hydro- ing: to recycle a reliable and lightweight catamaran which
gen-powered ship on a six-year world tour. The specially is an around the world record holder and to invest in readapted race boat, Energy Observer, uses solar, wind and search and development, instead of in composites," says
wave-generated power – as well as carbon-free hydrogen Erussard.
generated from seawater.
Hydrogen society
The base technology already exists for use on land, where
it helps overcome the problem of intermittent power supply from renewables, but this is the first time it's beenused at sea to produce hydrogen 'live' during stopovers
and navigation.
The ship creates hydrogen by demineralizing seawater(removing salt and ions), then separating the oxygen andhydrogen through electrolysis. The hydrogen is compressed at 350-700 bar, then stored in tanks ready to be
used in the energy stacks when needed.
World first

Toyota is already using hydrogen to help power vehicles
on land, including cars like the Toyota Mirai, as well as
buses, trucks and forklifts.
Toyota France provided Energy Observer's crew with eightvehicles for use during layovers when the ship set off lastyear, and now Toyota Motor Europe has put its full support behind the voyage.
"Energy Observer is an exciting initiative and we at Toyota
Motor Europe are delighted to be associated with such apassionate and dedicated team," says Matt Harrison, vicepresident of sales and marketing.

Energy Observer was built in Canada in 1983 by naval ar"This project once again demonstrates the many practicalchitect Nigel Irens, and this latest voyage won't be its firstuses of hydrogen that can be developed as we transition
world record. In 1984, it became the first racing sailboat
towards a hydrogen society.”the break the 500-mile limit in 24 hours.
Source: https://www.techradar.com/news/toyota-sendsThe boat has been lengthened four times since its racing
autonomous-hydrogen-powered-ship-on-a-six-yeardays, and is now 30.5m long and 12.8m wide. At 28 metricworld-tour
tons, it has a considerable weight advantage compared toships powered by storage batteries alone.
A team of over 30 people, including architects, designers
and engineers, worked to prepare the ship for its six-year
voyage, in which it will navigate 50 countries and stop in
101 ports of call.

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Vehicle News
A hydrogen-powered research boat has
many advantages over diesel, lab says

the tank and you're good to go, no need to wait for goodconditions for solar panels to start working.

A fuel-cell research vessel would produce its own water to For a research vessel, the emissions issue is a big one. On
a hydrogen-fuel-powered boat, researchers could take airboot.
samples without concern about diesel emissions sullying
Sandia National Laboratories says a hydrogen fuel cellthe data. Additionally, Sandia reports that "Hydrogen can
powered research boat is technically and economicallybe readily used in Arctic Oceanographic exploration befeasible today.
cause hydrogen is not susceptible to the waxing/ freezing
problems of the petroleum-based fuels." An electricallyThe lab network has released a report describing thepowered hydrogen fuel cell boat is also much quieter, so
specifications of an ideal hydrogen fuel-cell research ves- sonar mapping could be improved.
sel. Currently, research boats are largely powered by diesel, but a shift to hydrogen fuel cells could offer some sig- Another advantage is that the waste from hydrogen fuelnificant advantages over traditional technologies. Not
cells can be consumed. "Fuel cells generate pure, deionleast among these could be a complete reduction in car- ized water which can be captured for other purposes suchbon dioxide and other emissions that contribute to global as drinking water for the scientific staff and crew, or forwarming and sea pollution during use.
experimental and analytical purposes," the report notes.
"This can offset the weight of potable or experimental waBuilding such a vessel would require an entrepreneur to
ter needed to be carried on-board."
find funding and a buyer, but Sandia's previous work onhydrogen-powered boats has sparked just that kind of
And none of those potential advantages includes the sigentrepreneurship already with a company called Golden
nificant fact that such a boat would contribute less to cliGate Zero Emission Marine (GGZEM). GGZEM was found- mate change than a similar diesel vessel.
ed by a researcher who worked on a earlier Sandia project, studying the feasibility of hydrogen-powered passen- Research specifications
ger ferries. Now, the company is building the world's firstcommercial hydrogen-powered passenger ferry, called the Sandia worked with the Scripps Institution of OceanograWater-Go-Round. GGZEM confirmed to Ars that the Wa- phy to determine how the vessel, called the Zero-V, would
be used and how it would refuel. It also consulted with
ter-Go-Round is on-track to launch in Fall 2019.
naval architecture firm Glosten as well as DNV GL, which
does risk management for maritime operations.
Fuel cell on a boat
The Zero-V is designed to carry fewer people than a ferry,
Hydrogen fuel cell-powered transportation, on water orbut for a much longer period of time (2,400 nautical miles
on land, has yet to break into the mainstream. This is inpart due to the lack of infrastructure supporting the trans- or a 15-day excursion, to be exact). It requires propulsion
devices on either side of its hull to stabilize the boat if it
portation of hydrogen fuel, and in part due to the fact
has to lower equipment to the ocean floor for researchthat hydrogen fuel can be difficult to store (it requiresvery cold or high-pressure environments). Fuel-grade hy- purposes. And in addition to 11 crew and 18 scientist
drogen also requires energy to make, leading some oppo- berths, the boat needs to house three laboratories.
nents to contend that unless renewable energy is being
used to make fuel, hydrogen fuel cells really aren't all that "Part of the solution was selecting a trimaran boat design," a Sandia press release noted. "A trimaran has threegreen.
parallel hulls, and is usually used for high-speed boats.
The design offers a great deal of space above deck for the
But there are advantages to hydrogen fuel cells as well.
The only emission they release is water, so if hydrogen is tanks, and adequate below-deck space for other science
instrumentation and machinery."made with renewable energy, it is indeed a very green
source of fuel. Hydrogen can also be stored and used at
Scripps also identified ports of call for such a vessel where
will in a way that renewable energy can't be—just fill up

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Vehicle Newshydrogen fuel companies could refuel the boat bytruck. Nimitz Marine Facility in San Diego, Moss Landing
Marine Laboratory in Monterey, Pier 54 in San Francisco,and Wharf 5 in Redwood City could all accommodate hydrogen refueling operations, the report said.
The problem is always cost
While the vessel that Sandia and its partners developed
would be economic to build and is estimated to cost no
more than an equivalent diesel-powered vehicle, the one
thing standing in the way is operating cost. Unlike with abattery-electric vehicle, where initial cost is high but
maintenance and refueling costs are much lower, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles struggle in long-term competitiveness due to the cost of hydrogen fuel.
The researchers estimated that, using natural gas-derived
hydrogen fuel, the Zero-V would cost seven percent morethan a comparable diesel vessel to maintain and keep
fueled. But natural gas-derived hydrogen fuel offers no
overall emissions benefits compared to diesel when the
production, storage, and transportation of hydrogen isfactored in. Researchers also spoke to two hydrogen fuelcompanies that said they would be able to produce hydrogen from renewable energy in the quantities that theship would need, but at that point, "the total annual O&M
costs for operating the Zero-V are 41.9 percent higher,"
the report stated.
Still, in the Sandia press release Scripps fleet manager
Bruce Applegate was optimistic and compared hydrogenpowered vessels today to solar panels several years ago.
"Like other game-changing ideas, this approach initiallyseems expensive. But solar power was very expensive not
too long ago, and now it’s affordable and widely adopted.
Hydrogen fuel cells are just as transformative a technology."

nounced it would soon ease regulations on the production
and transportation of the fuel.
The news emerged this week after the minister of trade,industry and energy, Paik Un-gyu, held a meeting with thepresident of Korea Gas Corporation, Cheong Seung-il,
Hyundai Motor vice-president, Park Kwang-sik, and theheads of four related companies.
Hyundai, along with Toyota, is amongst the few car makers
worldwide to have seriously targeted hydrogen as a mass
market fuel in the short to medium term.
After the meeting, Paik told reporters the government
would soon ease regulations on the production and transportation of hydrogen which are key issues that have, sofar, held back the market for hydrogen powered vehicles.
In particular, the government would allow the use of reformers, which convert natural gas into hydrogen, in chosen districts as well as increasing the allowed carrying capacity of hydrogen transporters.
New operational standards had been developed for hydrogen refueling, including a provision allowing for movablestations to provide additional flexibility and reach to a network of fixed stations.
The government planned to provide grants worth KRW2.6
trillion (US$2.3bn) to develop a hydrogen fuel 'eco-system'.
Hydrogen powered public service buses would be targeted
initially with mass sales expected to start next year and
1,000 expected to be in operation by 2022.
Private vehicles also would be targeted, with some 15,000
units expected to be in circulation by 2022 once a refueling
network of some 310 stations was in place across the country and with help from generous government subsidies.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/aSource: https://www.just-auto.com/news/south-koreahydrogen-powered-research-boat-has-many-advantages- hydrogen-vehicle-sales-start-in-2019_id183712.aspx
over-diesel-lab-says/

Toyota plans to expand production, shrinkSouth Korea hydrogen vehicle sales start cost of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
in 2019
Mass sales of hydrogen powered vehicles were expected tostart in South Korea next year after the government an-

Toyota Motor Corp is doubling down on its investment inhydrogen fuel cell vehicles, designing lower-cost, massmarket passenger cars and SUVs and pushing the tech-7

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nology into buses and trucks to build economies of scale.
As Toyota cranks up improvements for the next generation of its Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV), expectedin the early 2020s, it is hoping it can prove wrong rival
automakers and industry experts who have mostly dismissed such plans as commercially unviable.

The Mirai was the world’s first production FCV when it was
launched in 2014. But its high cost, around $60,000 before
government incentives, and lack of refueling infrastructure
have limited its appeal. Fewer than 6,000 have been soldglobally.

LMC Automotive forecasts FCVs to make up only 0.2 percent of global passenger car sales in 2027, compared with
The maker of the Prius, the world’s first mass-produced
11.7 percent for battery EVs. The International Energy“eco-friendly” gasoline-hybrid car in the 1990s, says it can Agency predicts fewer FCVs than battery-powered andpopularize FCVs in part by making them cheaper.
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles through 2040.
“We’re going to shift from limited production to mass
production, reduce the amount of expensive materials likeplatinum used in FCV components, and make the system
more compact and powerful,” Yoshikazu Tanaka, chief engineer of the Mirai, said in an interview with Reuters.

Many automakers, including Nissan Motor Co (7201.T)
and Tesla, see battery-powered cars as a better, zeroemission solution to gasoline engines. Only a handful, including Honda Motor Co (7267.T) and Hyundai Motor Co(005380.KS), produce FCVs.

It is planning a phased introduction of other FCV models, But people familiar with Toyota’s plans said the automakincluding a range of SUVs, pick-up trucks, and commercial er thinks demand will perk up as more countries, includtrucks beginning around 2025, a source with knowledge
ing China, warm to fuel cell technology. The company alsoof the automaker’s plans said.
sees FCVs as a hedge against a scarcity of key EV battery
materials such as cobalt.
The automaker declined to comment on specific future
product plans. But it has developed FCV prototypes ofHand built
small delivery vehicles and large transport trucks based on
For now, Mirais are assembled by hand at a plant in Toyomodels already on the road, as Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) develta City, where 13 technicians push partially constructed
ops a battery-operated commercial semi-truck from theunits into assembly bays for detailed inspections. Thisground up.
process yields just 6.5 cars a day, a sliver of Toyota’s aver“We’re going to use as many parts from existing passen- age domestic daily production of about 13,400 vehicles.
ger cars and other models as possible in fuel cell trucks,”
said Ikuo Ota, manager of new business planning for fuel Strategic Analysis Inc, which has analyzed costs of FCVs
cell projects at Toyota. “Otherwise, we won’t see the ben- including the Mirai, estimates that it costs Toyota about$11,000 to produce each of its fuel cell stacks, by far theefits of mass production.”vehicles’ most expensive part.
The company is also betting on improved performance.
Toyota wants to push the driving range of the next Mirai Toyota has been building up production capacity toto 700-750 kilometers from around 500 kilometers, and to change that, as it expects global FCV sales climb to 30,000
hit 1,000 kilometers by 2025, a separate source said.
units annually after 2020 from about 3,000. Strategic
Analysis estimates that would allow Toyota to reduce
Driven by the belief that hydrogen will become a key
costs to about $8,000 per stack.
source of clean energy in the next 100 years, Toyota has
been developing FCVs since the early 1990s.
It has already begun to use parts developed for the Mirai
in other models, such as the fuel cell stack, which is used
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe
in Kenworth freight trucks being tested in California, theand stores more energy than a battery of equivalent
Sora FC bus it released in Japan in March and the delivery
weight.
trucks it will test with Seven-Eleven stores in Japan next
year.

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“It will be difficult for Toyota to lower FCV production
costs if it only produces the Mirai,” the first source told
Reuters on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue.
“By using the FCV system in larger models, it is looking tolower costs by mass-producing and using common parts
across vehicle classes,” he added.
The Mirai’s high production costs are largely due to expensive materials including platinum, titanium and carbon
fiber used in the fuel cell and hydrogen storage systems.

The hydrogen filling station at Servco's flagship Toyota dealershipnear Honolulu will allow the company to begin leasing the Toyota
Mirai fuel cell vehicle, and customers to fill up fast and for free.

Engineers have been reducing that by improving the platinum catalyst, a key component in the 370 layered cells inditional Japanese Taiko drummers kicked off the ceremothe fuel cell stack, which facilitates the reaction between
ny. Servco, a local 100-year-old company that also owns
hydrogen and oxygen that produces electricity.
dealerships in Australia and has commercial products dis“We’ve been able to decrease the platinum loading by 10 tribution and private equity investments divisions, hopes
percent to 20 percent and deliver the same performance,” that the availability of hydrogen to power passenger cars
will spur sales of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) on Oahu andsaid Eri Ichikawa, a fuel cell engineer at Cataler Corp, aeventually other Hawaiian Islands.
Toyota subsidiary that specializes in catalytic converters.
Strategic Analysis says using that much less of the precious metal would save up to $300 per fuel cell stack,based on an estimate that Toyota now uses about 30
grams of platinum per unit.
“By consistently focusing on these issues, we will be able
to progressively lower the cost of FCVs in the future,”
Tanaka said.

While the filling station will allow Servco to begin leasing Toyota’s Mirai FCV to its customers, in addition toother benefits such as easy and fast filling and long range,
company chairman and CEO Mark Fukunaga hopes thatthe car’s freedom from imported fossil fuels will help Hawaii meet its ambitious renewable energy objectives.

“FCVs offer zero carbon emissions and zero compromise
on refueling time and driving range,” Fukunaga said. “Andour hydrogen station will help show Hawaii residents how
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyotahydrogen/toyota-plans-to-expand-production-shrink-cost FCVs can make a real impact on our sustainability goals.”-of-hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles-idUSKBN1KG0Y0“Hawaii is the only state in the country committed to a
Hydrogen fuel for passenger cars comes 100% clean, renewable energy future,” Hawaii Governor
David Ige said at the hydrogen station blessing ceremony.
to Hawaii“In this past legislative session, we made a resolution to
decarbonize our economy by 2045, and decarbonizing
The blessing of a fuel cell vehicle (FCV) hydrogen filling
station is not something you see every day. But when the transportation is really the next step for our clean energy
occasion is Hawaii’s first and only hydrogen filling station future.”
for passenger cars, a traditional island blessing makes“I really do believe that the Mirai and hydrogen fuel cells
perfect sense.
have a part in our clean, renewable energy future,” GoverHonolulu-based Toyota dealer and distributor Servco Pa- nor Ige added. “And I congratulate Servco for taking a
step forward and putting a stake in the ground to ourcific unveiled the station by having Kahu Bruce Ahcommitment to zero-emission transportation and making
Leong bless it using Hawaiian Ti leaves and water fromsacred waterfalls high in the mountains of Oahu after tra- this facility a reality.”

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Vehicle NewsThe hydrogen station, located at Servco’s flagship Toyota
dealership near Honolulu, can produce up to 12 kg of hydrogen per day and store up to 100 kg of hydrogen onsite, roughly enough to fill up 12 vehicles. Thor Toma,
Servco senior vice president, pointed out that the hydrogen filling station was entirely funded by Servco.

of theSprinter andVito vans. In
addition tothese hybridized efforts, theGerman automaker's
new Concept Sprinter F-Cell shows that Mercedes hasn't
given up on fuel cells either.

“We didn’t get any funding from Toyota or grants fromthe state,” he said, “but we really believe that this is key
for Hawaii. Hawaii doesn’t have any natural energy
sources and we’re highly dependent on petroleum products. Hydrogen is something that can be produced locallythrough electrolyzing water, so it totally makes sense,” he The rear-wheel-drive Concept Sprinter F-Cell's powertrain
produces 147 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque.
added.
Three tanks mounted under the floor can store enough
The Toyota Mirai, which has an EPA estimated range ofhydrogen for 300 kilometers (186 miles) of driving, ac312 miles on a full tank, will be offered for lease by Servco cording to Mercedes. Another tank can be added to theat the end of this month and the lease includes service
rear of the vehicle, boosting range to 500 km (310 mi), theand hydrogen fuel. Like gassing up a traditional internal
automaker said, but that's not all.
combustion engine, completely filling the Mirai’s fuel tank
Like the hydrogen-powered Mercedes-Benz GLC variant,from empty takes approximately 5 minutes.
the Concept Sprinter F-Cell also features a small battery“The refueling process is as intuitive as learning to fuel apack to supplement the fuel cells, adding 30 km (18 mi) ofgasoline vehicle for the first time—and is fast,” Fukunaga range. That makes the Concept Sprinter a plug-in hybrid,said. The driver connects the fuel station’s nozzle to thebut using a combination of fuel cells and batteries instead
car’s fuel receptacle. Once the two are locked in place, the of an internal-combustion engine and electricity.
station and car perform a system check, and when the
The Concept Sprinter F-Cell was configured as a motank is filled the dispenser stops the flow of fuel and cantorhome to show off the packaging advantages of its albe disconnected from the car.
ternative-fuel powertrain. With the tanks positioned under“It’s so difficult to say [FCVs] makes sense when you’re
the floor and the fuel-cell stack mounted in the front
reading about it or looking at a picture,” Toma added.
where a gasoline or diesel engine would normally go,“Now that there’s a tangible example here people can see there is plenty of interior space to work with. Per Merthat this works and it’s safe, and that’s a critical piece tocedes, the fuel-cell setup could be made to work with agetting other public and private partnerships together to variety of body styles.
do more stations.”
But will a fuel-cell van ever go into production? Mercedes
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/
parent Daimler claims to be agnostic on powertrain techdougnewcomb/2018/07/21/hydrogen-fuel-for-passenger nologies.
-cars-comes-to-hawaii/#17debb115460"Daimler strategy does not provide a dogmatic, ideologiMercedes-Benz unveils fuel-cell Sprinter cal answer to this question but instead makes it dependvan concept
ent upon the best possible customer benefits," the company said in a statement.
In the battle to reduce vehicular emissions, there are twomain weapons of choice: batteries and hydrogen fuelYet the company's current plans indicate a lower level ofcells. Mercedes-Benz has already confirmed plans for a
confidence in fuel cells. While Mercedes has committed toline of battery-electric cars and battery-powered versions putting the battery-powered eSprinter into mass produc-10Vehicle Newstion, it did not confirm production plans for the Sprinter
F-Cell. Mercedes is planning a limited production run of
the GLC F-Cell, so it's possible the van could be churned
out in small numbers as well. Both models also use battery packs to supplement their fuel cells.

rare resource. It’s very rare for carmakers to agree to thistype of deal, which seems to bode well for the overall success of the initiative.

Overall, the fleet of light-duty plug-in electric vehicles inJapan ranked as the third largest in the world, trailing only
Mercedes may be sincerely willing to explore all options. It after China and the US. However, the rate of growth of the
may just be finding that hydrogen isn't the best bet. While plug-in segment has dropped somewhat, particularly duelack of fueling infrastructure remains a major problem for to the heavy promotion of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
fuel-cell vehicles, the number of charging stations for bat- over plug-in electric vehicles. Even though these vehicles
hit the market only in 2015, they steered some of the Japtery-electric vehicles has steadily grown. However, thismay be less of an issue for commercial vehicles operating anese buyers away from electric cars even before thaton set routes near designated terminals, so fuel-cell vans year.
like the Sprinter F-Cell might have a future.
Now, Japan’s leaders want to infuse new life into the elecSource: http://www.thedrive.com/tech/21896/mercedes- tric car market and continue to reduce emissions associated with transportation. Hiroshige Seko, Minister of Econobenz-unveils-fuel-cell-sprinter-van-concept
my, Trade, and Industry, said:

Japan wants all new cars to be electric by
2050“Japan would like to contribute to achieve zero emissions
on a global scale by spreading electric vehicles worldwide.
“That’s a goal only Japan, home to the top level of the auto industry, can set.”

However, while Japan’s initiative is certainly laudable, it’s
far from being a unique objective. Germany wants tomake all cars electric by 2030, while France has announced a ban on gasoline and diesel cars by 2040. The
UK plans a similar ban by 2040, but the country which
seems lead this race is Norway. More than half of all cars
sold in Norway are already, and the percentage is growing
Japan has announced a new plan under which, by 2050, all steadily.
new passenger cars will be electric or hybrid. The government will also set up a new group to help manufacturers
source cobalt for batteries.

Still, only a handful of countries have concrete plans to do
this.

Source: https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/renewableThe race for car electrification just got more intense asenergy-ecology/japan-electric-cars-27062018/
Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, announcedplans to switch to electric cars in under two decades. The
First hydrogen fuel cell passenger train
government panel also set a goal for emissions reduction:
approved for service in Germany
by 2050, all emissions from passenger vehicles must dropby 90% compared to 2010 levels.
Coradia iLint, the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell passenger train, has been granted approval by the German RailThe panel also includes members from major automobile
way Office (EBA) for passenger service in Germany.
companies such as Toyota and Nissan, who will work together on acquiring the much-needed cobalt for the cars’ “With the approval of the German Railway Office (EBA), webatteries. This collaboration is particularly significant as
are sending the first passenger train with fuel cell technolChinese investors are aggressively securingdeposits of the11Vehicle News
prototypes will enter pilot operation in the Elbe-Weser
network.
The Coradia iLint was designed by Alstom teams in Salzgitter (Germany), a center of excellence for regional trains,and in Tarbes (France), a center of excellence for traction
systems. The development of the Coradia iLint was fundedwith €8 million from the German government as part of
the National Innovation Program for Hydrogen and Fuel
Cell Technology (NIP).
Source: https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/
news/71394/hydrogen-fuel-cell-germany/ogy onto the tracks. This is a strong sign of the mobility ofWill hydrogen-powered cars gradually bethe future. Hydrogen is a true low-emission and efficient
come mainstream in Europe?
alternative to diesel. Especially on secondary lines, where
overhead lines are not yet available, these trains are a
The role of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) in the transiclean and environmentally friendly option. That is why we tion to a clean, low-carbon energy system is increasingly
support and promote the technology, in order to bring it recognized worldwide. Yet, their mass roll-out is still years
to the surface,” said Enak Ferlemann, the German Federal away. This is not surprising because high costs, efficiency
Government’s authorized delegate for rail transportation. issues and the limited number of hydrogen refueling staThe Coradia iLint produces electrical power for tractionand emits low levels of noise, with exhausts of only steam
and condensed water. The Coradia iLint is special for its
combination of different innovative elements: Clean energy conversion, flexible energy storage in batteries andsmart management of traction power and available energy. Specifically designed for operation on non-electrifiedlines, it enables clean, sustainable train operation while
ensuring high levels of performance.
“This approval is a major milestone for the Coradia iLint
and a decisive step towards clean and future-oriented
mobility. Alstom is immensely proud of this hydrogenpowered regional train, a breakthrough in emission-freemobility, and the fact that it will now go into regular passenger operation,” said Wolfram Schwab, Alstom Vice
President of R&D and Innovation.

tions (HRSs) affect the business case for their production
and use on a large scale.

The EU-funded ZEFER project is addressing this challenge
by introducing 180 FCEVs in Brussels, London and Paris.
As explained in a press release on the project website,their regular use on a daily basis will create hydrogen demand from each vehicle roughly four times that of a normal privately owned car. "This will help to ensure high utilization of the early networks of HRS which are alreadyoperating in each city." As a result, the economics of operating the stations will be improved and the uptake of
FCEVs will speed up.
Business case for FCEVs

Project partners hope most of the vehicles will be deployed by the end of 2018. ZEFER predicts the FCEVs will
cover a lot of ground. For Paris and Brussels, the estimate
In November 2017, Alstom and the local transport author- for mileages is over 90,000 km per year and for London
ity of Lower Saxony (LNVG) signed a contract for the de- 40,000 km. It will collect data on the vehicles as they makelivery of 14 hydrogen fuel cell trains, along with 30 years
their rounds, and will also provide an analysis of the busiof maintenance and energy supply. The 14 trains will beness cases and technical performance of the deployments.
produced by Alstom for LNVG’s vehicle pool and willtransport passengers between Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven,
Stored in vehicles in a tank just like petrol or diesel, hyBremervörde and Buxtehude from December 2021. Foldrogen is utilized in an electrochemical energy converlowing this approval granted by EBA, the two Coradia iLint sion process with oxygen in fuel cells to generate electrici-

12Vehicle Newsty. This powers the electric motor to propel the FCEV. A
similar electrochemical process is used to produce electricity from batteries. But while a battery will lose its
charge over time, a fuel cell will continue to work so longas it has hydrogen and oxygen flowing into it.

most 2.4 million fossil cars that need to be replaced. The
need for hydrogen solutions for cars, buses and heavyduty vehicles is both necessary and beneficial.
Hydrogen friendly politics is emerging

Despite a strong effort from the minority parties, hydrogen has, until recently, not been a prioritized issue among
national politicians in Norway. This has resulted in low
budgets and small-scale local initiatives, rather than national programs. But this is finally about to change. After asmart move from the government where ENOVA, the national funding scheme, was moved from the Ministry ofPetroleum and Energy to the Ministry of Climate and EnviThe ongoing ZEFER (Zero Emission Fleet vehicles For Eu- ronment, where a hydrogen friendly minister, Ola
ropean Roll-out) project was set up to demonstrate viable Elvestuen, now is the head of ENOVA, and so the future
looks a lot brighter.
business cases for captive fleets of FCEVs in operations
that can realize value from hydrogen vehicles. This could
The hydrogen industry now has three different ministers
be done, for example, by intensive use of vehicles and
HRSs, or by avoiding pollution charges in city centers with seeing hydrogen as a part of the low carbon solution. Elvestuen will focus on green hydrogen production,
applications where the refueling characteristics of FCEVs
storage and usage in the transport sector. The Minister ofsuit the duty cycles of the vehicles.
Transport and Communications, Ketil Solvik-Olsen, is also
investing heavily in hydrogen. Through The Norwegian
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-hydrogenPublic Roads Administration he launched the first public
powered-cars-gradually-mainstream-europe.html
hydrogen ferry tender in 2017, which is to be operational
Hydrogen is finally getting attention from in 2017. The Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Terje
Norwegian politicians
Søviknes, on the other hand is mainly focusing on hydrogen from natural gas with CCS as Equinor (Statoil) andGreen hydrogen is an important piece of the zeroother oil companies have picked up the interest in hydroemission puzzle, both in Norway and the rest of the world, gen.
according to Vegard Frihammer from Greenstat.
From 120 in 2018 to 500,000 hydrogen cars by 2030
Hydrogen has some fantastic characteristics as a zeroemission energy carrier. It has the quality of a very highCurrently, there are seven hydrogen stations for cars inenergy to weight density and only emits water. It can be
Norway, five in the capital Oslo, one in Bergen and one inproduced anywhere from renewable energy and will work Trondheim—serving approximately 120 cars. However,well as a range extender in existing electrical drive lines.
during the last two years ENOVA, has released two new
Hydrogen will, in combination with batteries and a share programs supporting new hydrogen stations. The numberof sustainable biofuel, play an important role in the transi- of stations is, therefore, expected to grow rapidly over thetion to 100 % zero emission transport.
next few years.
Another advantage of hydrogen-powered cars is that they
have a long range, over 480 km, with some in the market
travelling up to 800 km or more on a single tank. They
also charge faster than traditional battery-powered vehicles—the refueling time is typically 3 minutes. If the hydrogen is generated by renewable sources, FCEVs could
provide zero-emission transportation opportunities.

The ever-present “battery versus hydrogen discussion”
finally seems to be losing momentum, as politicians andothers prefer to focus on the “fossil versus zero emission
discussion”, which is far more important and productive.
In Norway, there are 2.5 million cars and even with a record-breaking high penetration of BEV (battery electric vehicles), counting for 22.3 % of new cars sold, there are al-

The National Transport Plan (NTP) has stated that by2025, no more fossil cars should be sold. With a yearlysale of roughly 150,000 cars in Norway and assuming thathydrogen cars will have a rising market share from 30% to
50% in the years from 2025 to 2030, the number of hydrogen cars will accumulate to roughly 500,000 by 2030.
These cars will then consume around 75,000 tons of hy-

13Vehicle Newsdrogen, which in turn, will require 4 TWh of renewableelectric energy.
In addition to the car market, there will be a strong demand for green hydrogen in the heavy duty vehicle market, the maritime market and potentially, the airborne industry.
Both large-scale and small-scale hydrogen production
plants needed
When setting up a hydrogen production plant, the question of whether to place the facility close to the consumeror the power production is raised. As the sales price ofhydrogen will be a result of the production and the transportation cost, this will vary depending on the location forthe consumer and for the power source.
The production price is significantly reduced by setting up
large-scale production facilities, but to keep the transportation costs down, you need large consumers nearby. For
remote locations with smaller quantities, local production
and distribution are favorable.
Electrolysis as the end solution, but fossil hydrogen withCCS could speed up the transition

drogen nation of Europe.
Source: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/
hydrogen-is-finally-getting-attention-from-norwegianpoliticians/47244/

Hydrogen car-ferry project launches
A European consortium led by a Scottish engineering
company and university is aiming to launch the world’s
first hydrogen-powered car ferry in 2021.
John Morgan of Ferguson Marine Engineering, which isrunning the project with the University of St. Andrews,
said: “There are a few European groups in the market withsimilar ambitions, but we believe ours can be the first vessel on this scale.”
The HySeas III project, which started this month, also involves Germany’s aerospace agency (DLR), global ferryowners’ organization Interferry and Denmark’s Ballard
Power Systems, which is providing the technology for thevessel’s modular drive train, based on its hydrogenpowered road-transport experience.

HySeas III was recently awarded a €9.3-million grant by
the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation fund, with
Norway has a large production of natural gas, with a year- a total budget estimated at €12.6 million.
ly export of nearly 1000 TWh. For the Norwegian gas industry, hydrogen could provide a new market and even if Horizon 2020 is the EU’s largest ever research and innovagreen energy from renewable energy is the favorable so- tion program with a budget of around €80 billion, runningfor seven years until 2020.
lution from a climate perspective, hydrogen with CCS
could boost the transition by securing stable large-scale
production from existing facilities.

The group said it would run on hydrogen produced using
renewable energy in its operating area around the Orkney
However, hydrogen from natural gas with CCS is only eco- Isles, where the gas is already being produced from excess wind and tidal power.
nomically viable in large-scale, several hundred tons perday, and close to existing CCS infrastructure. This leaves
room for green hydrogen to cover most of the domestic
market in Norway where the typical project sizes range
from a few hundred kg to some tons per day will be thetypical project size.

Hyseas III aims to test the ferry’s modular drive train on
land using simulations at the Ferguson shipyard on theRiver Clyde, which has seen a £25-million makeover during the past four years, according to Jim McColl, chief executive of yard owner Blowers Capital.

Promising future if policies stay on course

Since the Port Glasgow yard was acquired and its site upThe future of hydrogen in Norway is still vulnerable to po- graded by McColl’s investment vehicle, all the other newbuild contracts it has won have been for Caledonian Marilitical shifts, but as most parties have included hydrogentime Assets (CMAL), the Scottish state-owned ports, haras a part of their platform and politicians, in general, aremore hydrogen friendly, Norway could emerge as the hy- bors and ferry division with headquarters across the road14

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from the Ferguson site.
The shipyard has seen innovation in the past with thelaunch in 2012 of the first ferry in the world to operate
under hybrid-battery power, using diesel and lithium-ion
batteries.

ety," said Shell's general manager of hydrogen, Oliver
Bishop, who travelled from Europe for the launch.
Bishop highlighted the lack of greenhouse gas emissions
from hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and the abundance ofthe element in the universe.

Last year Ferguson launched the UK’s first dual-fuel ferry, But it's unclear how ready the consumer market is for the
MV Glen Sannox, which was powered by a combination of new technology. Refueling options are limited to the newstation for now, and a couple of privately-accessed stamarine diesel and LNG (liquified natural gas).
tions in other provinces.
HySeas III project coordinator Dr. Martin Smith from St.
Andrews University said: “This opens the real possibility of "The customer, by and large, is not aware of fuel cell elecScotland and her key European partners delivering anoth- tric vehicles," said Bishop. "These are electric vehicles.
er world-first, not simply in shipbuilding but also in build- That's what a hydrogen car is ... They function in a very
similar way to a battery electric vehicle. They have an elecing sustainable sources of fueling in parallel.”tric motor."
The University of St. Andrews is home to research and deWhile Hyundai Canada CEO Don Romano took a shot atvelopment in hydrogen, battery and other energy techTesla electric cars during Friday's launch event, Bishop denologies and a key part of the developmental aspect isthe transferal of knowledge and expertise into real-world clined to pit hydrogen against battery powered electriccars, saying Shell will provide whatever sort of energy theapplications.
consumer demands, and offers electric fast-charging staSmith previously played a leading role in the introduction tions in some markets.
of Scottish hydrogen buses, a development which is now
set to move beyond Aberdeen with Dundee currently fol- But he touted the short amount of time it takes to refuel ahydrogen tank—about five minutes—and the range thelowing and other Scottish cities considering fleets.
vehicles can travel before refueling—hundreds of kilomeSource: https://www.energy-reporters.com/storage/ters.
hydrogen-car-ferry-project-launches/
And Bishop defended the safety of of the technology, disCanada’s first retail hydrogen fueling sta- missing associations with the 1937 Hindenberg disaster,tion opens in Vancouver
when a hydrogen-filled airship burst into flames, killing
dozens.
Canada's fledgling hydrogen-fueled vehicle industry tooka significant step forward on Friday, as Shell opened the"Hydrogen is as safe as any other fuel. If you mishandle
country's first publicly accessible hydrogen fueling station any form of energy which is being stored, you may getin Vancouver.
hurt, and so of course, this is all about treating energy
carefully," he said.
The station is nestled between traditional fuel pumps at a
Shell outlet in Vancouver's Marpole neighborhood. The"That's the same whether it's gasoline, or diesel orcompany has plans for two more in the city.
[liquefied petroleum gas], or lithium ion battery. If you
mistreat it, it could hurt you."
The modest, but noteworthy piece of hydrogen fuel infrastructure was opened with some fanfare, as auto manuSource: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britishfacturers Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota had vehicles oncolumbia/hydrogen-fuel-pump-opens-in-vancouverhand for test drives.
1.4709016"It's a great day for Shell, but it's also a great day for soci-15Vehicle News
Toyota rolls out version 2.0 of its hydrogen fuel cell truck, dubbed the “Beta
Truck”

into full operations in the fall at the ports of Long Beach
and Los Angeles.
“By evaluating the first truck in our test facilities and on
the actual roads in the LA area, we made a list of improvements for the Beta truck build process and performanceenhancements,” said Andrew Lund, Chief Engineer for the
project. He continued, “We needed to move beyond a
proof of concept, which the first truck accomplished, tosomething that is not only better than the original but isalso more commercially viable.”

The paired ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are serviced by 16,000 heavy trucks today and have become ahotspot for poor air quality as a result. As a result, the arToyota unveiled version 2.0 of its hydrogen fuel cell elec- ea has become the focus of efforts by the South Coast Air
tric Class 8 truck at a Management Briefing Seminar at the Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to improve air
quality, especially as the number of trucks servicing theCenter for Automotive Research (CAR) today.
ports is expected to double to more than 32,000 trucks
The new truck builds on Toyota’s learnings from version per day in 2030.
1.0 of the truck, which it had dubbed the Alpha Truck. The
naming convention was carried through to the current Looking out across the United States, there are more thanversion, which has been christened as the Beta truck. Of 43,000 drayage trucks working in ports that could also
course, this follows the pre-production naming conven- benefit from the work being done by Toyota if the solution is determined to be commercially viable. That’s exacttion used for software releases.
ly the focus for Toyota as it looks to use the Beta truck to
The Beta truck has received a range boost that allows it to take its hydrogen-powered truck to the masses.
travel more than 300 miles per fill up — an increase fromthe 200 mile range of the Alpha truck — and now comes “Our goal with the first truck was to see if it could be acwith a sleeper cab that has been combined with the fuel complished, and we did that,” said Senior Manager forcabinet that allows for more usable space without increas- Toyota’s North American Electrified Vehicle & Technoloing the wheelbase on the vehicle. The increase in range gies Office Craig Scott, “This time we’re looking at comwas one of the many improvements Toyota rolled into the mercial viability. We want to help make a difference … a
Beta truck based on lessons learned from the more than significant difference when it comes to the air quality not
10,000 miles it has put on the Alpha truck since April of only in the LA area but across the US and around theglobe.”
2017 in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
On the performance side of things, Toyota’s Beta truck To further sweeten the deal, Toyota is generating renewamaintains the 670 horsepower and 1,325 pound-feet of ble hydrogen at its Toyota Logistics Services facility in thetorque that the Alpha truck produced from its twin Toyota Port of Long Beach. As we shared last year, the plant will
Mirai fuel cell stacks and 12kWh battery. These specs ena- use agricultural waste to generate water, electricity, andhydrogen that will support Toyota Logistics Services’ (TLS)
ble its gross combined weight capacity of 80,000 lb.
operations at the Port of Long Beach as well as its growThe Alpha truck was taken from concept to prototype in ing fleet of hydrogen trucks working in the ports.
less than a year to see if Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell technology could be a good fit for a Class 8 heavy duty truck. Source: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/07/30/toyotaThe improvements rolled into the Beta truck continue the rolls-out-version-2-0-of-its-hydrogen-fuel-cell-truckrapid deployment strategy, with the truck slated to move dubbed-the-beta-truck/16

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World agrees to cut shipping emissions
50 percent by 2050

About 90 percent of global trade in goods travels by ship,
and the vessels together emit about as much greenhousegases as Germany, the nation with the sixth-highest emisThe UN's International Maritime Organization has apsions in the world. Emissions from shipping have been
proved the world's first broad agreement to cut greenprojected to rise 250 percent by 2050 unless controls arehouse gas emissions from worldwide ocean shipping and imposed. For competitive reasons, and because ships are
said it hopes to phase them out entirely "as soon as possi- registered in various countries without regard to where
ble in this century."
their owners are based or what ports they visit, this canonly be done by a global agreement.
The agency called the agreement, reached by countries on
Friday, a first step and promised further action in the fuDelegates from many countries, meeting in London thisture. Some negotiators and observers said it was not yet
week, spoke of the need to do more.
strong enough to guarantee that shipping, a rapidly
growing contributor to global warming, will come into line The Marshall Islands made clear from the outset that it
would not endorse any agreement that fell short of thewith the Paris climate agreement. The IMO called it a
Paris targets. The low-lying Pacific Ocean archipelago is"pathway" in that direction.
probably doomed unless carbon dioxide emissions are
The IMO called on shipping companies to reduce emisreined in sharply and rapidly, but it is also home to one ofsions by the year 2050 to 50 percent of their 2008 level,
the world's biggest shipping registries. The vessels regiswith emissions growth peaking as soon as possible. The
tered there fly a flag of convenience as the islands' people
organization is a specialized United Nations agency withface an inconvenient truth.
173 member states who cooperate on regulations governing the international industry, including setting pollution "I will not go home to my children, and my country's children, endorsing an outcome from the IMO that fails tostandards.
face up to the greatest threat of the century," EnvironEven relatively modest first steps would require considera- ment Minister David Paul said.
ble changes in how cargo ships are built, fueled and operAfter the decision, President Hilda Heine of the Marshallated. At present, ships run almost entirely on fossil fuels,
Islands said the outcome "made history."
generally the dirtiest grades of oil, and burn them inefficiently to boot.
"While it may not be enough to give my country the cerMeeting the new goals would require shippers to signifi- tainty it wanted, it makes clear that international shipping
cantly increase fuel efficiency and to shift to low- and ze- will now urgently reduce emissions and play its part ingiving my country a pathway to survival," she said.
ro-carbon fuels such as biofuels or perhaps hydrogen,while adopting new propulsion technologies, some of
Kitack Lim, the IMO secretary-general, told delegates, "Ithem still unproven.
am confident in relying on your ability to relentlessly continue your efforts and develop further actions that will
The next step is for the IMO to decide whether to makesome of these short-term measures mandatory and deter- soon contribute to reducing GHG [green house emissions]mine how to enforce the rules. The deal is to be reviewed from ships."and perhaps tightened in five years.
Island States Wanted a Zero-Emissions Target
Cutting Shipping Emissions Takes a Global Deal
Climate advocacy groups welcomed the move as a long
overdue step but called it insufficient.
Until now, little has been done to address the industry's
carbon pollution. Shipping is not directly controlled by the"Without concrete, urgent measures to cut emissions from
Paris agreement, and it is widely neglected in the Parisshipping now, the Paris ambition to limit warming to 1.5
pledges made by individual nations.
degrees will become swiftly out of reach," said Veronica

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Frank of Greenpeace International. "Although the deal
lists possible mitigation measures, the lack of an action
plan for their development and the tone of discussions at
the IMO does not give much confidence that measures
will be adopted soon."by simply slowing ships down. Just as Americans used tosave gasoline by driving at 55 miles per hour on highways,
ships can cruise more efficiently if they go slower. Of
course, that means more ships are needed to carry thesame amount of fuel. New shipbuilding would be an opportunity to build modern, efficient ships or new varietiesthat incorporate novel technologies, such as fuel cells orother electric propulsion.

A more suitable target, some say, would be to aim for zero emissions from shipping as early as 2035, as was demanded by the Marshall Islands and several other small
island states. European Union countries were willing to cut Alternative Fuels: Then there's the possibility of substituting alternative fuels. One approach would use synthetic
more deeply than the IMO decided; Japan wanted tobiofuels. This would require careful attention to life-cycle
move more slowly than the IMO target. In the end, they
emissions, since biofuels don't always have a lower carbon
compromised.
footprint, especially in the short run. Another approach
For the world's nations to achieve the Paris targets ofwould substitute fuels like hydrogen for the heavy, dirty
keeping warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, scientists fuel oil that is commonly used.
say net emissions of carbon dioxide from all energy sysA Price on Carbon: The most effective way to spur thistems need to be reduced rapidly, reaching zero somekind of change, the report said, would be to impose atime in the second half of this century.
price on greenhouse gas emissions, such as a carbon tax.
Here's How Shipping Can Cut Its Emissions
Then the marketplace could decide what methods to use
to hold down emissions and avoid the tax.
While it may sound Pollyannaish to talk of rapidly bringing emissions from shipping down to anything close to"An effective carbon price coupled with technology andzero, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and De- operational improvements will be key to unlocking thevelopment (OECD) published a report as the negotiations huge potential for pollution-free shipping," said Kelsey
began describing possible pathways to get there.
Perlman, international transport policy officer for Carbon
Market Watch.
Technology: "Maximum deployment of currently known
technologies could make it possible to reach almost com- Source: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13042018/
plete decarbonization of maritime shipping by 2035," itocean-shipping-imo-agreement-reduce-climate-changesaid. "This reduction equals the annual emissions of apemissions-fuel-oil-zero-carbon-clean-energy-technology
proximately 185 coal-fired power plants."
Less Fossil Fuel Use Globally: Some progress might come
simply from a worldwide reduction in the use of fossil
fuels, especially coal and crude oil. Much of these commodities move by sea. Declining exports from producing
countries would reduce the amount of shipping, and thatalone would make a dent in smokestack emissions at sea.
Electrified Ports: In addition, lots of the pollution fromships is given off while they are in port, their engines
idling to produce on-board power. Plugging them in toclean electricity supplies would prevent that—and would
considerably reduce the local smog and soot that chokesome port cities.
Slowing Down: The next obvious way to cut emissions is

Researchers create hydrogen sensor thatworks at room temperature

Hydrogen has the potential to replace fossil fuels as anenergy carrier, but it is highly flammable, so sensors todetect it are an absolute necessity if there’s to be a transition to a hydrogen economy.
However, the challenge to date is that most current hydrogen sensors require high temperatures in order tofunction and have low sensitivity and slow response times.
Researchers at TU Delft (The Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands), say they have cracked this challenge with a new sensor made of a thin layer of tungsten
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ability to sense hydrogen using a platinum catalyst means scaled up towards mass production. Mattoni and TU Delft
have filed a patent application for this new sensing techit can detect hydrogen concentrations down to 1 pppm
near room temperature, with response times as low as 1 s nology.
when the concentration exceeds 100 pppm.
Source: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?
One of the properties of tungsten trioxide is that its crys- doc_id=1333477
tal lattice structure contains a lot of open spaces. As a reARENA provides $1.5m for Australiansult, the material can easily be doped, which is the prachydrogen hub
tice of changing its electronic properties by introducing
other atoms.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has“By itself, tungsten trioxide is an insulator," said Giordano provided $1.5m in funding for Australia’s first green hydrogen (H2) innovation hub at ATCO’s operations facility
Mattoni, the lead author of the paper published on theirin the Perth suburb of Jandakot, Australia.
work. “But when you dope it, you add electronic charges
which turn the material into a different color and also
The project’s centerpiece is a display home where H2 will
gradually change it into a metal. We wanted to try to
dope thin films of tungsten trioxide with hydrogen gas to be tested in household appliances designed for naturalgas.
see if it could function as a sensor.”
It turns out that it can. The researchers first created thinsheets of tungsten trioxide using a method called pulsed
laser deposition. That way, they were able to deposit single layers of the material onto a substrate one by one.
“Using this method, we created sheets of tungsten trioxide with a thickness of only nine nanometers," said Mattoni.

An array of 1100 solar panels paired with battery storage
will power the site, diverting excess energy that would
otherwise be wasted to produce green H2.
Renewable green H2 is made using electricity generated
by renewable sources such as solar and wind, ensuring theprocess is carbon free.
ATCO is building the Clean Energy Innovation Hub to explore opportunities for surplus renewable energy to be
stored as H2.

The researchers then put platinum droplets on top of thethin layers of tungsten trioxide. Platinum is well known tofunction as a catalyst which separates the hydrogen molecules into single hydrogen atoms. These atoms, the researchers observed, could then enter the lattice structureof tungsten trioxide, slowly turning it from an insulator
into a metal.

Head of innovation Samuel Lee Mohan says this journey
started more than two years ago when they embarked ona project to understand the role natural gas can play in a
residential hybrid energy system.

“This means that, by measuring the resistance of the material, we can determine the amount of hydrogen present
in the environment," Mattoni said.

“We designed a hybrid energy system which uses natural
gas as a backup to renewable solar and battery technology. That trial was very successful,” said Mohan.

What sets this new hydrogen sensor apart from most other sensors is that it can be used at room temperature. “Itis also much more sensitive than commercially available
products and it can be reused in a matter of minutes,"
Mattoni added. “Also, by increasing or decreasing thetemperature of the sensor, the sensitivity range can betuned for different applications.”

With the gas industry releasing a vision to be a low carbon energy provider by 2050 and global trends towards
decentralization and decarbonization, ATCO set out totake their hybrid concept to a commercial scale.

“Hydrogen is a clean energy that can provide storage ofintermittent renewable technology. It achieves two things– decentralization in the short term with hydrogen as a
Finally, the thin film nature and the compatibility with cur- backup,” Mohan continued.
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Looking to the 2050 low carbon vision, Mohan said,“Biogas and hydrogen have a role to play, and that requires us to innovate today”.
ATCO is on track to have the solar panels installed by August and be producing renewable H2 by March 2019.
H2 will be piped in two lines—one blended in low concentrations with natural gas to test how a cooktop, hot water
boiler and space heater respond to different proportionsof the renewable gas, and a second delivering 100%
H2 for dedicated H2 appliances that will be installed in the
future.
The technical challenges aren’t the only barriers to overcome before renewable H2 can start replacing natural gas
in homes.
Mohan explained, “One is understanding the engineeringand technical challenges of producing and injecting hydrogen into the gas network. The second is economics.
Understanding the cost and time of changing appliancesand some network upgrades”.
He believes the technical barriers could be overcome
within five to eight years.
Storage vital as renewables take over

Source: https://www.gasworld.com/arena-provides-15mfor-australian-hydrogen-hub-/2015069.article

Excess energy: is surplus solar and wind
power a good source of hydrogen?
Of all the energy challenges facing Western industrialized
nations, what to do with surplus power generated by renewable sources such as wind and solar PV would appear
to be the least of them.
However, the familiar problem of balancing supply anddemand is becoming more pressing. In April, National
Grid published a report warning that electricity demand in
the UK could fall to near record lows this summer – peaktransmission system demand for June-August was forecast at 33.7GW – because of the growing supply of powerfrom small-scale solar and wind farms that bypass thegrid.
“Increased supply and demand variability caused by these
periods of low demand and high levels of renewable generation can create operability challenges,” the report said.
“As a result, we may need to take more actions to curtail
generation and possibly instruct inflexible generators to
reduce their output in order to balance the system.”

Clean energy provides a third of the UK’s power at certain
As renewables take off, attention is shifting to how surplus times of the day. That, coupled with the UK Government’s
electricity generated by solar and wind can be stored for ambitious program of offshore wind farm construction
later use to provide dispatchable power. H2 is one option, and the inflexibility of some solar power plants, means theusing excess renewable energy to power an electrolyzer
problem of what to do with excess electricity is now a prithat separates water molecules into H2 and oxygen.
ority.
ATCO’s electrolyzer will be powered entirely by onsite so- Hydrogen storage explainedlar, creating renewable H2 that is completely free of emissions. The system is expected to deliver enough electricity A recent report from the Institution of Mechanical Engito produce about four tones of renewable H2 per year.
neers (ImechE) entitled ‘Energy from Gas: Taking a Whole
System Approach’ offers compelling evidence that hydroH2 has upsides over other storage technologies, being
gen storage could help to optimize surplus low-carbon
easily stored and transported, able to quickly fill fuel tanks power.
and only emitting water vapor when used to power a fuelcell.
The concept is built around ‘power to gas’, a process bywhich electricity—most commonly excess power on the
The Clean Energy Innovation Hub will also use H2 to pow- grid or in industry—is used to create gas, usually in theer a fuel cell to stabilize the electricity supply, in addition form of hydrogen.
to combusting it in the place of natural gas in domestic
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across all sectors of the UK energy system, such as electricity, heat, industry, storage and transport, helping todecarbonize the power network.

used as an effective alternative fuel to oil for large vehicles such as HGVs.

According to IMechE, the appeal of sustainable or ‘green’hydrogen is that it offers clean, limitless energy that canfulfill the requirements of all energy sectors, as well as
many heavy industries. For example, hydrogen can be

IMechE calls for investment and research into both batteries and hydrogen production, storage and use. The institution would like to see more investment in hydrogen, but
not at the expense of other technologies. “The UK Gov-

The institution’s report includes case studies detailing the“Power to gas provides a conduit for connecting the ener- use of renewables at refineries to generate hydrogengy system together, providing fuel from excess power and through electrolyzers for use in petroleum refining. Gas
distribution company Cadent is also looking at generating
reducing both air pollution and CO2 emissions,” explains
Dr. Jenifer Baxter, head of engineering at ImechE and lead hydrogen for industry through steam methane reforming,using carbon, capture and storage (CCS) to remove
author of the report.
CO2 from the process.
“The use of hydrogen technologies is not a new concept,
but as climate change, health concerns and security of“ITM have a hydrogen reforming station in London thatenergy supplies across sectors begin to impact our every- will be supplying the Metropolitan Police vehicles.” Baxter
day lives, the appeal of the use of hydrogen technologies adds. “We will likely see improvements in electrolyzers
as part of the whole energy system grows.”
using renewables, the use of CCS in steam methane reforming and the general greening of existing and new hyIn addition to decarbonizing the power grid, there is androgen.
other ethical dimension to hydrogen storage; namely, that
it offers an environmentally friendly alternative to mining “Clean limitless energy that can fulfil the requirements offor metals such as lithium, the central component of lithi- all energy sectors provides a great option for the UK.”
um-ion batteries and an increasingly popular form of enNot everyone agrees. A recent report by the Oxford Instiergy storage.
tute for Energy Studies warned that there were ‘major
Everything from mobile phones to electric cars relies ontechnical challenges’ to decarbonizing heating by switchmetals like lithium, nickel, graphite and cobalt, so demand ing to greener gases like hydrogen.
and prices are soaring. The Financial Times reports that
“There is good evidence to show that there is little or no
the price of cobalt, mostly mined in the Democratic Rechange needed to introduce up to 20% hydrogen into the
public of Congo, has increased by more than 190% overheating network, and also using biogases reduces thethe past 18 months.
overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,” Baxter counters.
A 2017 report by Amnesty International alleges that in“Until recently, there has not been regulation or the level
dustry giants such as Microsoft, Lenovo and Renault areof public awareness around GHG emissions and air pollunot doing enough to tackle child labor allegations in cotion to force manufacturers to change behaviors. The
balt battery supply chains.
2008 Climate Change Act pushed change in the power“The UK Government should commission a comprehensector first and now other more difficult sectors are beginsive comparative study of the long-term sustainability ofning to change.”materials used to create Lithium-ion EV batteries versus
Power to gas vs. battery storage
power-to-gas/gas systems and fuel cells, particularly forenergy storage, to identify appropriate technology andlifecycle analysis,” says Baxter, quoting one of the IMechE The Guardian reports that in 2017, the UK Government
made pledges amounting to £246m for battery research
report’s key findings.
and development, compared with just £25m to explore
using hydrogen for heating.
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ernment must work with the gas industry to promote theuse of up to 20% hydrogen in the gas distribution network including change in pipes and materials by 2023,”
states Baxter, again referencing one of the IMechE report’s key findings.

nature of wind and solar energy, the European power system can comfortably generate at least 35% of its electricity using these renewables alone without major impacts on
prices or system stability.

Wind and solar energy have exploded in popularity across“Funding programs and demonstration sites are crucial to Europe in the last decade as green alternatives to traditional carbon-based energy, quadrupling in use between
decarbonizing gas,” she continues. “Government has thepower to finance research, development and demonstra- 2007 and 2016. However, these technologies are not without their drawbacks—both are susceptible to fluctuatingtion and support deployment through programs such as
weather patterns, raising concerns about Europe’s ability
Innovate UK, as well as bespoke programs designed to
to endure long spells with low winds or overcast skies. Redeliver future UK infrastructure.”
searchers have used decades of historic weather data to“The government must also commit to creating an indus- model this variability in wind and solar energy and its eftrial forum that brings together the nuclear, renewablefect on markets, but many studies only analyse data frompower and gas sectors to promote the generation and
one given year or focus solely on one country or small
storage of hydrogen for use across the UK energy system region.
in heat, transport, power generation and heavy industry.
The researchers challenge both the temporal and spatial“Investment now in the future hydrogen economy will
limitations of previous studies by analyzing electricity sysbegin to encourage further innovation, open up markets tem operation across Europe—including power transmisand help clarify legislation and regulation.”sion between countries and technical operational constraints—using wind and solar data spanning the 30-year
Source: https://www.power-technology.com/features/period from 1985 to 2014. By uncovering trends from thisexcess-energy-surplus-solar-wind-power-good-sourcelongstanding data trove across a vast, interconnected rehydrogen/gion, the team was able to model how Europe would fare
under five different renewable energy scenarios with varyEurope may thrive on renewable energy
ing sustainability ambitions 12 years into the future. It
despite unpredictable weather
turns out that the breadth and depth of their data poolmade all the difference when it came to understanding
trends in CO2 emissions, system costs, and system operation—all of which are essential to the effective development of energy policy.
“When planning future power systems with higher levelsof wind and solar generation, one year of weather data
analysis is not sufficient,” says Seán Collins, a researcher at
MaREI, the Marine and Renewable Energy Centre at University College Cork. “We find that single-year studies
could yield results that deviate by as much as 9% from thelong-term average at a European level and even more at a
Researchers in Ireland, Switzerland, and the United Kingcountry level. When there are legally binding targets on
dom have shown how long-term weather patterns affectcarbon emissions and the share of renewable energy, orwind and solar renewable energy technologies across Eupromises to avoid sharp price hikes, this makes all the difrope. Using 30 years of meteorological data, the scientists
ference.”have examined and further modelled the impact of renewable energy on the electricity sector out to the year
By using multiple years to better understand the way oth2030. The work suggests that despite the unpredictableer variables respond as wind and solar energy penetrate

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the market, Collins and his team found that CO2 emissions
and total energy generation costs fluctuate wildly in future scenarios. These can become up to five times more
uncertain as weather-dependent resources gain greater
traction in the market. However, they also found that Europe could withstand this variability quite well thanks to
its close integration—their models estimate Europe could
use renewables for more than two-thirds of its electricity
by 2030, with more than one-third coming from wind andsolar.
Collins and his team believe their models and data could
be used to depict a variety of possible future scenarios tohelp policymakers better understand the reliability andimpact of renewable energy, including the impacts of ashift to 100% renewable electricity systems. By making
their models and data openly available, the researchers
also hope that future work will demonstrate greaterawareness of these long-term weather patterns in orderto accurately depict a more renewable-energy-reliant
world.
“For future policy developments to be robust and to capture the meteorological dependency of decarbonized energy systems, they should be based on open modelling
analyses that utilize common long-term datasets,” says
Collins.
Source: https://irishtechnews.ie/europe-may-thrive-onrenewable-energy-despite-unpredictable-weather/

Record wind farm construction now underway in the US
US wind farm construction now surpasses 90 GW withstrong demand from Fortune 500 brands and utilities according to second quarter results released today by
the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).

another factor in driving growth forward.
“Wind power’s job creating engine just kicked into a higher gear” said Tom Kiernan, CEO of AWEA. “And all Americans will benefit as the record number of wind farms under construction begin delivering new revenue to ruralcommunities and affordable homegrown energy to consumers.”
AWEA’s US Wind Industry Second Quarter 2018 Market
Report reveals that wind farm construction now totals
5,322 MW during the second quarter of 2018, bringing
total construction activity to 18,987 MW. A single new
American wind turbine represents 2.32 MW of capacity on
average, roughly enough to power 750 typical homes.
Beyond projects currently under construction, another
3,901 MW of new wind power capacity entered advanced
development. Projects in advanced development are likely
to enter construction in the near term because they haveachieved a major milestone such as placing a turbine order or finding a buyer for their power. The entire nearterm US wind farm development pipeline grew 13 percent
over the previous quarter to a grand total of 37,794 MW
under construction or in advanced development.
The US wind industry installed 626 MW this quarter,
bringing year-to-date installations to 1,032 MW. Those
installations mean American power capacity cracked
90,000 MW nationally, extending wind’s lead as the largest source of US renewable energy capacity. The country’s
90,004 MW of total installed wind capacity is capable ofgenerating enough affordable, clean electricity to powerover 27 million average homes.

Wind energy buyers value the ability to lock in long-term,
stable prices through power purchase agreements (PPA)
or direct ownership of wind farms. Wind farm developers
signed 1,524 MW of PPAs during the second quarter, andStrong demand for low-cost wind power from US utilities the overall volume of wind capacity contracted throughand other buyers, including major corporations like AT&T PPAs is up 44 percent compared to the first half of 2017.
and Walmart this quarter, continues to drive the industry’s Corporate customers including AT&T, Grupo Bimbo,
growth across America. Wind power’s low cost makes it
Walmart, and Merck & Co accounted for 56 percent of
one of the most competitive energy sources in many parts contracted capacity in the quarter, with utilities contractof the country and the low cost of wind continues to falling the remainder.
due to technological innovation and increased manufacturing. The five-year extension and phase out of the wind Utilities also announced plans to add 1,491 MW of windcapacity under direct ownership, including MidAmerican’s
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591 MW Wind XII project in Iowa and Ameren Missouri’s
400 MW High Prairie project in Missouri.
Offshore wind power’s growing momentum reached newheights in three New England states this quarter. In May
and June, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
selected competitive bids representing 1,400 MW of offshore wind capacity for development. Project developers
are now working out PPA terms with utilities. Bringing
these projects online is a major step toward scaling up
U.S. offshore wind, which will create American jobs, infrastructure investment and economic opportunity throughout coastal communities.

absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions 33% by
2030 and by 80% by 2050 and reduce its Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030.
The company’s decision to source 100% of its electricity
needs from renewable energy by 2050 applies to all the
Fujitsu Group’s locations both inside and outside its homecountry of Japan and will make use of a range of procurement methods including renewable energy certificates,
Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), and on-site installations including solar and energy storage.

Beyond its commitment to source its own electricity
needs, Fujitsu will also commit its technological expertiseWind energy supporters around the country will celebrate to continuing research and development and technology
the rapid growth in U.S. wind power and the opportunity trials for energy management and storage, a move which
will go beyond benefiting the company’s own efforts but
it creates for job seekers, consumers and communities
during American Wind Week, which kicks off in less than will also benefit the global power sector as a whole.
two weeks from August 5-11.
“With our technology and expertise, Fujitsu will show
leadership in providing solutions for overcoming any barSource: https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/
riers to disseminating renewable energy, such as
wind/record-wind-farm-construction-now-underway-incost,” said Hideyuki Kanemitsu, VP, Head of Responsible
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Business Unit, Fujitsu. “Joining RE100 demonstrates our
Fujitsu announces 100% renewable ener- strong intention to deliver on our Fujitsu Climate and Engy target, joins RE100
ergy Vision. We expect to see opportunities to collaborate
with customers and various stakeholders through ourJapanese IT giant Fujitsu announced last week that it has RE100 membership.”committed to sourcing 100% of its needed electricity fromrenewable energy sources by 2050, coupled with its deci- “We are delighted to welcome Fujitsu to RE100″ added
sion to join the RE100 initiative.
Sam Kimmins, Head of RE100, The Climate Group. “Theircommitment comes at a crucial time, sending a clear mesFujitsu becomes the latest in a long string of companies
sage to the world that Japanese companies are commitmaking large-scale renewable energy commitments, and ted, alongside their global peers, to using 100% renewathe 140th to join the RE100 initiative—a global initiative
ble power.”
designed to support and bring together companies making 100% renewable energy commitments formed by The Source: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/07/24/fujitsuClimate Group in partnership with CDP (formerly the Car- announces-100-renewable-energy-target-joins-re100/
bon Disclosure Project).
Fujitsu’s commitment to source 100% renewable energy
by 2050 is part of its medium- to long-term environmental outlook, launched in May as the “Fujitsu Climate andEnergy Vision” which aims to bring the company’s CO2
emissions down to zero by 2050. This puts into place thecompany’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction target
which was approved in August of 2017 by the Science
Based Targets initiative. Specifically, Fujitsu will reduce its

Zoo waste to energy project the first of its
kind in North America
Michigan State University and the Detroit Zoo have partnered for a clean energy project.

A zoo waste to energy solution has been given the green
light in Detroit. A Michigan State University (MSU) research team will build an anaerobic digester at the Detroit
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waste problem.
This will be thefirst anaerobic
digester implemented at a zoo
in North America.

Currently, there are as many as 60 million anaerobic digesters worldwide. The United States is home to morethan 1,500 of them. This number is expected to increaseas others, like the Detroit Zoo waste to energy system,
become operational.

Source: http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/zoo-waste-toenergy-project-the-first-of-its-kind-in-northThe team of university researchers, led by MSU researcher america/8535568/
Dana Kirk, worked with the Detroit Zoo to build the zoo
waste to energy technology. The anaerobic digester at the Simple solar energy technology could
animal enclosure facility will convert animal and foodchange the world
waste into clean energy that is capable of powering someof the zoo’s operations, stated an MSU report.
An anaerobic digester is a sealed tank that contains zero
oxygen. Within this tank, organic waste is degraded at ahigh temperature, allowing for the quick decompositionof waste material and the production of methane, which is
captured and transformed into energy.
The Detroit Zoo waste to energy system will power its animal hospital.
The Detroit Zoo digester powers the facility’s animal hospital, which requires 100-150 kilowatts per hour to oper- The SunSaluter solar panel has gone open source.
ate. This is significant when you consider that the average
The solar energy technology behind the simple solar panUS household uses approximately 900 kilowatts of energy
el efficiency device known as the SunSaluter has beena month.
made open source so that anyone can build it. Now that it
is no longer patented, the device can bring renewable enBeyond lowering the zoo’s electricity cost, the digester
ergy to those who need it the most.
repurposes animal and food waste and lowers greenhouse gas emissions. With over 1.5 million visitors every
year, the Detroit Zoo is helping more people learn about
the value of generating and using clean energy fromsources that are readily available.
MSU is well known for its experience and expertisein anaerobic digester research and development. Leadteam researcher Dana Kirk is an assistant professor of biosystems and agricultural engineering and the manager ofthe university’s Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center. Kirk has helped with other waste-to-energy
projects both in the US and internationally.
“Over the span of more than eight years, we have worked
with hundreds of clients around the United States to understand how much energy can be produced from organic wastes,” Kirk said.

The SunSaluter also produces clean drinking water.
Developed by Chinese-Canadian software/mechanical engineer Eden Full Goh, the SunSaluter rotates and follows
the sun throughout the day and boosts efficiency by 30%.
Additionally, it produces four liters of clean drinking water
daily.
The solar energy technology uses only the power of gravity and water to follow the sun throughout the day. The
device was developed using inexpensive and recycled materials found across the world and is easy to put together.
It is 30 times less expensive than traditional motorized
solar panel rotators, is more reliable and the device itself
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The revolutionary solar energy technology produces elec- Auctions are to be held every two years to continue building offshore wind energy projects.
tricity more consistently throughout the day.
Contract auctions have been planned to be held every
two years, according to Energy minister Claire Perry. The
auctions will begin next May and will occur until the 2020s
to award the £557 million (approximately $730 million)
The solar panel she created rotates to follow the sun’s po- that the government has set aside to support the lowest
sition in the sky as it changes. This means it’s not only
cost offshore UK wind energy projects.
pointing directly at the sun around midday, as is the case
The purpose of the auctions is to provide the industry
with most traditional non-rotating panels. Instead, the
SunSaluter continues to point directly at the sun through- with the stability that is required to continue to build thelarge wind turbine structures needed for offshore windout the day as the sun changes position in the sky.
farms. It forces firms to become more transparent regardBy reducing the cost of solar energy, the SunSaluter helps ing the amount of support they need and will also help toimpoverished families living in rural areas to work andincrease jobs and cut costs for consumer at the same
study for longer hours, charge cell phones and eliminate
time. This system is considered to be the most responsible
the use of kerosene gas as well as the need for batteries
for the development of clean energy in Britain.
to store energy that is usually generated mostly around“The UK renewables sector is thriving, with more offshore
high noon.
wind capacity here than anywhere else in the world and“We’ve impacted 17,000 people so far, but I’d really like us 50% of electricity coming from low-carbon sources last
to expand our reach,” Eden Full Goh said when she spoke year in what was our greenest year ever,” said Perry.
at Inspirefest 2018, as reported by Silicon Republic.
Offshore UK wind energy has become an increasingly afSource: http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/simple-solar- fordable source of green energy.
energy-technology-could-change-the-world/8535502/
Commenting on the auction process, Hugh McNeal, InUK wind energy capacity to almost double dustry body RenewableUK’s CEO said that it sets the nain the next decadetion on the path to provide the tens of billions of pounds
of investment that will be required to meet the ambitious
The UK government’s support for the nations wind power goal of at least 30 gigawatts by 2030.
sector will dramatically boost this renewable in the country.
“We can look forward to a pipeline of new offshore windprojects that will support tens of thousands of jobs
With theacross the UK,” McNeal added.
government
recently
Although the environmental group Greenpeace welcomesconfirming its
the support for more offshore UK wind projects, Greensupport forpeace has also called on the UK government to support
more UK windother low-cost forms of renewable power, such as onenergy projects,
shore wind power and solar energy.
this renewable
Source: http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/uk-windpower source is expected to nearly double in size within
the next decade. More specifically, under government en- energy-capacity-to-almost-double-in-the-nextdecade/8535555/
ergy plans, between one-fifth and one-third of the UK’s
power is set to be produced by offshore wind turbines by
2030, reported Oilprice.com.
Part of Full Goh’s original idea for the initial SunSaluterdevice was to design a solar panel that points directly at
the sun at all times. This is known as solar tracking.

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International Journal of Hydrogen
Energy Highlights
Most Cited IJHE Articles (past 5 years)
1. A comprehensive review on PEM water electrolysis
Carmo M, Fritz D, Mergel J, Stolten D. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2013;38(12):49014934
2. Hydrogen from renewable electricity: An international review of power-to-gas pilot
plants for stationary applications
Gahleitner G. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2013;38(5):2039-2061
3. Review and evaluation of hydrogen production methods for better sustainability
Dincer I, Acar C. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2014;40(34):11094-11111
4. Review of hydrogen storage techniques for on board vehicle applications
The International Journal of HyDurbin D, Malardier-Jugroot C. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2013;38(34):14595-14617
drogen Energy aims to provide a
5. Synthesis and characterization of composite visible light active photocatalysts
central vehicle for the exchange
MoS2-g-C3N4 with enhanced hydrogen evolution activity
and dissemination of new ideas,
Ge L, Han C, Xiao X, Guo L. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2013;38(17):6960-6969
technology developments and6.
Review:
Direct ethanol fuel cells
research results in the field ofKamarudin M, Kamarudin S, Masdar M, Daud W. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2013;38
Hydrogen Energy between sci(22):9438-9453
entists and engineers throughout the world. The emphasis is
7. Layered MoS2-graphene composites for supercapacitor applications with enplaced on original research, both
hanced capacitive performance
analytical and experimental, covHuang K, Wang L, Liu Y, Liu Y, Wang H, Gan T, Wang L. Int J Hydrogen Energy
ering all aspects of Hydrogen
2013;38(32):14027-14034
Energy, including production,
storage, transmission, utilization, Most Downloaded IJHE Articles (June-August
enabling technologies, environ2018)
mental impact, economic andinternational aspects of hydro1. Future cost and performance of water electrolysis: An expert elicitation study
gen and hydrogen carriers such
Schmidt O, Gambhir A, Staffell I, Hawkes A, Nelson J, Few S. Int J Hydrogen Energy
as NH3, CH4, alcohols, etc.
2017;42(52):30470-30492

The utilization includes thermochemical (combustion), photochemical, electrochemical (fuelcells) and nuclear conversion ofhydrogen, hydrogen isotopes
and/or hydrogen carriers tothermal, mechanical and electrical energies, and their applications in transportation (including
aerospace), industrial, commercial and residential sectors.
When outstanding new advances are made, or when new areas
have been developed to a definitive stage, special review articles
will be considered. Shorter communications are also welcome.

2. Kinetics study and modelling of steam methane reforming process over a NiO/
Al2O3 catalyst in an adiabatic packed bed reactor
Abbas S, Dupont V, Mahmud T. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2017;42(5):2889-2903
3. Developments of electric cars and fuel cell hydrogen electric cars
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4. A comprehensive review on PEM water electrolysis
Carmo M, Fritz D, Mergel J, Stolten D. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2013;38(12):4901-4934
5. Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for heating: A review
Dodds P, Staffell I, Hawkes A, Li F, Grunewald P, McDowall W, Ekins P. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2015;40(5):2065-2083
6. Electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction
Eftekhari A. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2017;42(16):11053-11077
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Energy Highlights of Recent Publications
An evolving energy solution: Intermediate hydrogen storage

M. Nagpal and R. Kakkar. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2018: 43(27):12168-12188
For hydrogen to emerge as a sufficiently robust energy carrier efforts must be made with regard to safe and efficient production
and storage. The US department of Energy, in 2017, set the target of a 5.5 wt% in hydrogen storage material for viability. Hydrogen storage capacity refers to the amount of hydrogen adsorbed on the material surface and compressed within the framework ofpores (expressed in wt%). Candidates for a good hydrogen storage material should store it rapidly and reversibly with high volumetric and gravimetric densities of H2, have long-term cycling stability, and minimum refueling time. Solid state hydrogen storage
includes physical hydrogen storage, chemical hydrogen storage and intermediate hydrogen storage.
Physical hydrogen storage involves hydrogen adsorption on the materials by physical forces (weak van der Waals interactions).
Materials that have been used for this method of storage include carbon materials, zeolites, metal organic frameworks, clathrate
hydrates, polymer nanocomposites, etc. Chemical storage involves hydrogen being bound to the system by chemical forces, resulting in the absorption of hydrogen as chemical compounds. Compounds like hydrides, amides, imides, alanates, nitrides, etc.
are used for chemical storage of hydrogen. Intermediate hydrogen storage methods lie between physical and chemical storage.
Chemical storage is hindered by the need for high temperatures to release the stored hydrogen as well as slow kinetics and oxidative instability, while physical storage is hindered by the weakness of the storage interaction which has low binding energy, which
necessitates low temperatures to keep hydrogen bound to the system. Considering these two anecdotal problems, among others,
the focus has shifted toward finding adsorbents with binding energies higher than physical storage, but without compromising
reversibility. This journal article serves as a review of materials that have been investigated in this context and primarily looks at:alkaline-based materials, 2D materials (graphene and MXenes), group III nitrides and nano-structred inorganic compounds.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319918312606-By Cyrus Daugherty

Low voltage water electrolysis: Decoupling hydrogen production using bioelectrochemical system

P. Belleville, F. Guillet, A. Pons, J. Deseure, G. Merlin, F. Druart, J. Ramousse, E. Grindler. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2018: 43(32):14867-14875
One alternative approach to the conventional water electrolysis process is dividing the water splitting into two steps, whereby theelectrons and protons generated are taken up during oxygen production using an electron-coupled proton buffer (ECPB), insteadof being used directly to produce H2. Utilizing this technique enables H2 production at elevated pressures and even facilitates thedissociation rate. Therefore, using a redox mediator to split the conventional water electrolysis process into separate H2 and O2
production steps, overcomes the gas-mixing issues.
The present work validates the proof of concept of decoupled electrolyser associated with a bioelectrochemical system (MFC-DES)
through a redox flow mediator (potassium hexacyanoferrate (KHCF)). Low voltage (1 V) hydrogen production was achieved with acurrent density up to 25 mA cm-2. Regeneration of the mediator was performed by glucose fed microbial fuel cells. The oxidation
rate of KHCF in the electrolyser is, at least, an order of magnitude higher than the reduction rate in MFC cascade fed system. MFCDES is thus a promising set up as it desynchronizes limited microbial rate and hydrogen production, generates value fromwastewater and reduces energetic cost of water electrolysis.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319918319293-By Yasser Ashraf Gandomi

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From the Bookshelf
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Authors: Brent Sorenson and Giuseppe Spazzafumo
In a multidisciplinary field such as energy, Hydrogen and Fuel Cells stands out by covering the entire
width of hydrogen production and usage technologies, giving detailed descriptions of not just one
but the range of very different fuel cells that have been developed or are under development.
In this one-volume book, Bent Sorensen and Giuseppe Spazzafumo provide the basic scientific theory
underlying hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, but at the same time present applications and sustainable integration into society in a way accessible to a broad range of people working in this field,
whether in technical, economic or management roles.
The third edition reflects both recently emerged technologies and the market penetration of the mostpromising technologies, and it gives an appraisal of how far fuel cell technology may go in the future,
considering current challenges and economic trends. This new edition has updated and expanded
content on hydrogen storage and transmission, molten carbonate fuel cells, PEM fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells, biofuel cells, including microbial fuel cells, applications in transportation and power plants, future scenarios and life-cycle assessment. It is ideal
for researchers and professionals in the field of energy, and renewable energy in particular, both in academia and industry. It isalso useful to lecturers and graduate students in engineering, physics, and environmental sciences, as well as professionals involved in energy or environmental regulation and policy.
Key Features
Gain thorough understanding of the science and applications of hydrogen and a range of different fuel cells, including economic and social aspects of the fieldUpdated sections include hydrogen storage and transportation, biofuel cells, PEM and solid oxide fuel cells, applications intransportation and large scale power generation, and life-cycle assessment

https://www.elsevier.com/books/hydrogen-and-fuel-cells/sorensen/978-0-08-100708-2

Have suggestions for a future book feature? If so, send the book title to Kathy Williams at williamk@utk.edu.

Become a Member of IAHE
The International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) has four categories of membership: H-Members: Scientists, engineers, and laypersons who are interested in fields relating to Hydrogen Energy. They

receive IAHE e-newsletter, hard copies of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE), and reduced registration for IAHE conferences.
 E-Members: Scientists, engineers and laypersons who are interested in fields relating to Hydrogen Energy. They

receive IAHE e-newsletter, access to electronic copies of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE),
and reduced registration for IAHE conferences.
 Student Members: They are students who are interested in hydrogen energy. They receive the IAHE e-

newsletter. The student membership is free and led by Dr. John Sheffield. Please email him atjohn.sheffield@dnvkema.com for more information.

 IAHE Fellows: Long-time IAHE members who have significantly impacted society by promotion of Hydrogen

Economy through research, education and/or service.

If you are interested in becoming a member of IAHE, please visit the membership page at www.iahe.org. You can sign
up for membership directly on the membership page.

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Research Lab Highlight
Global Hydrogen Energy Unit
Institute of Innovation Research, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology

Overview:

Tokyo Tech has a wide range of achievements in energy-related
research and education that it has accumulated over the years.
In 2012, the Environmental Energy Innovation Building wascompleted at the Ookayama Campus and the original smart
power grid management system “Ene-Swallow” was initiated.
Experts in innovation and technical assessment are participatingin the research along with specialists on campus to push technological and system advancements. The major focus of thisunique Research Unit is engaging in global and open collaboration in a wide range of activities with other consortium members.
3. The Global Hydrogen Energy Unit vision

To make hydrogen energy a practical reality, it is neces- To realize a hydrogen energy society, it is essential to organicalsary to explore the development of elemental technology ly link universities that provide outstanding technology and research, industries that promote the commercialization of hydroand systems as well as industrial and social structures togen energy, and governmental agencies that establish and exeidentify and address issues of importance. Hydrogen is acute policy. The Global Hydrogen Energy Consortium was essecondary energy source with high potential to contribute tablished through industry-government-academia collaboration
to the goal of realizing a low-carbon society and bringing within the Global Hydrogen Energy Unit. The unit operates theabout a change in energy structure.
consortium and facilitates multilateral assessment, the development of technology for elements and systems, and the ex-

The Global Hydrogen Energy Unit was established to eval- change of information among members.
uate a wide range of issues from a multilateral, subjective,
and scientific perspective through industry-government- 4. The Global Hydrogen Energy Unit future plansacademia collaboration centered around Tokyo Tech. The
The Global Hydrogen Energy Unit’s initial 5-year plan was based
unit also identifies bottlenecks in problem solving andon the requirements for achieving the desired energy society indetermines development goals related to the technology
the next 30 years. The unit’s primary plan is to first establish aand systems required to realize a hydrogen energy socie- system for the subjective and diversified assessment of introty.
duction and use of hydrogen both in and outside of Japan. In
FY 2016, the Unit scheduled to start joint assessment with industry, government, and universities with the goal of encouraging external funding. Based on this assessment, in FY 2018, the
1. Global hydrogen supply chain
Unit will examine the identified issues and implement specificresearch projects that focus on solving top priority problems. In
The goal of the Global Hydrogen Energy Unit is to establish a
FY 2019, the Unit plan to establish a foundation to facilitate theglobal-scale hydrogen supply chain which converts unused
application of our achievements to advance to the next stage.
overseas energy to hydrogen and transports it to Japan. Specifically, the unit plans to separate brown coal into CO2 and hydro- Contact Info:
gen in Australia, store the CO2 underground, and transport liquefied hydrogen to Japan for storage and conversion to energy. Global Hydrogen Energy Unit (GHEU), Institute of Innovative
The unit will also link this with the use of hydrogen energy gen- Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology
erated from renewable energy sources in Japan. The Global Hy- Ishikawadai-6 Bld. Room 403 (Mailbox: I6-23)
drogen Energy Unit conducts research on the organization of 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550 Japanaccurate and subjective information, creates new value, designs Tel/Fax：03-5734-3335
and evaluates systems, and identifies and solves technical dee-mail：gheu[at]ssr.titech.ac.jp
velopment problems.

Major activities at this center includes:

2. Multiscale analysis of the hydrogen supply chain

http://www.ghe.iir.titech.ac.jp/index-e.html

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NOW AVAILABLE

Journal of Electrochemical Energy
Conversion and Storage

EDITOR
Wilson K.S. Chiu, PhD

University of Connecticut, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Jacob R. Bowen, PhD
Technical University of Denmark,Denmark
Robert J. Braun, PhD
Colorado School of Mines, USA
Dirk Henkensmeier, PhD
KIST, South Korea
Kevin Huang, PhD
University of South Carolina, USA
San Ping Jiang, PhD
Curtin University, Australia
Matthew Mench, PhD
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
USA
Partha P. Mukherjee, PhD
Purdue University, USA
William E. Mustain, PhD
University of South Carolina, USA
George Nelson, PhD
The University of Alabama in Huntsville,
USA
Peter Pintauro, PhD
Vanderbilt University, USA
Bengt Sundén, PhD
Lund University, Sweden
Vittorio Verda, PhD
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale deLausanne, Switzerland

February 2018

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Conference Dates: August 27-28, 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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The EMFC 2018: 2nd International Conference on Energy Materials and Fuel Cell Research is going to beheld on August 27-28, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA which aims to bring together leading academic
scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on
all aspects of Advanced Energy Materials, Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cell Technology with the Theme: Generation of Energy Evolution for Sustainable Future. EMFC Conference 2018 has become a premier event to connect professionals, scientists, academics, and students in the energy industry and provides a premier interdisciplinary platform to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practicalchallenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Energy Materials and Fuel Cell Technology.
The 2-days conference at Boston will become a must-attend event for the Energy and Fuel Cell Industry tohear about future infrastructure projects plans, government strategies and market-leading innovation. We invite you to contribute and help to shape the Energy Materials and Fuel Cell Research Congress through submission of your research abstracts, papers and e-posters.
More changes have occurred recently in the global energy sector since 100 years prior. In its 2nd edition, theEMFC Conference 2018 will be exploring enabling technologies for the future of clean energy, energy digitization, and existing energy infrastructure.
We will bring together leaders and visionaries from industry, government, the scientific community, and theprivate sector that are looking at the entire value chain in a holistic way and can speak about and debate thedevelopment of these complex changes, which are redefining the future of energy worldwide.
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18th f-cell • impulse • together • excellence
September 18+19, 2018
Haus der Wirtschaft
Stuttgart / Germany

18th f-cell 2018 Features New Concept
Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies are increasingly assuming a pivotal role at theinternational level and not just with the electrification of the transportation sector. In
2018, the 18th f-cell will present its new format in Stuttgart for the first time in thisinnovative environment. In doing so, active participation and vibrant discussion will be thefocus of technical exchange of information.

Peter Sauber Agentur
Messen und Kongresse GmbH
Wankelstraße 170563 Stuttgart
Germany+49 711 656960-55
f-cell@messe-sauber.de
www.f-cell.de

Stuttgart, June 29, 2018
The current versatile applications and developments of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies
form the topic field at this year’s 18th f-cell. “Hydrogen really is an endless amount of fun.
Hydrogen is clean, safe, and can be produced everywhere. However, hydrogen technology
doesn’t just make fossil fuel technologies appear obsolete. Battery technologies are also
having a hard time outperforming the advantages of hydrogen,” says Jorgo Chatzimarkakis,
Secretary General Hydrogen Europe, Brussels.
During two efficient scheduled days full of new impulses, the f-cell will present this newworld of hydrogen using profiled, international hydrogen and fuel cell projects and throughrenowned hydrogen specialists to answer questions about energy, mobility, and logistics.
New Orientation and New Formats
In mid-September, the 18th f-cell provides the opportunity to come into active contact with amultitude of expert participants during the moderated and open dialog. For the first time, allformats will be oriented in dialog format; i.e., greater importance is attached to active
participation and lively discussion. “With the f-cell, we are specifically initiating dialogs
between different project and technology approaches. In other words, exactly where
innovations often arise. This means that we can gain real added-value for all participants,”
stresses Peter Sauber, CEO of Peter Sauber Agentur Messen und Kongresse GmbH.
In 2018, the 18th f-cell’s offerings include prominent experts moderating topic tables inorder to intensively discuss, in small groups, trends and leading technologies. A matchmaking
platform and a spontaneous “speed dating” for the initiation of business at a professional
level is enabled through the aid of a specially developed app and will complement the range
of offers available at the 18th f-cell.
International and Cross-Sector Projects
In addition to the initial market penetration, an increasing internationalization of the projects
and continually more intensive linking between the energy and transportation sector are
emerging in the hydrogen and fuel cell industry. The 18th f-cell takes into account this trendwith the presentation of exemplary international projects that are close to market from
Germany, the EU, Canada, Norway, Japan, and China.

A brand of

18th f-cell • impulse • together • excellence
September 18+19, 2018
Haus der Wirtschaft
Stuttgart / Germany

The f-cell award 2018: Focus on Norway
In 2018, the f-cell award is honoring goal-oriented cooperation between the state of BadenWuerttemberg and Norway. The following can be submitted: Concept ideas andcollaboration projects from all research and application fields focusing on fuel cells andhydrogen technologies. The project must feature the participation of at least one institute orscientific institution based in Baden-Wuerttemberg and one in Norway, and the consortium
leader must originate from one of the two countries. The submission deadline for all
contributions ends on July 28, 2018.
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Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (CHFCA), Vancouver
Cluster Brennstoffzelle BW, Stuttgart
Deutscher Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellen-Verband (DWV), Berlin (German Hydrogenand Fuel Cell Association)e-mobil BW GmbH – Landesagentur für neue Mobilitätslösungen und Automotive BadenWürttemberg, Stuttgart (State Agency for New Mobility Solutions and Automotive BadenWürttemberg)
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), Brussels
Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE, Freiburg (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar
Energy Systems)
Government of Canada – Trade Commissioner Service
Hydrogen Europe, Brussels
HySUT, Japan
H2 MOBILITY, Berlin
Innovation Norway, Oslo
Ministerium für Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart(Federal Ministry for Environment, Climate, and Energy)
Norwegian Hydrogen ForumNOW GmbH – Nationale Organisation Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie,
Berlin (National Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology)
Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart (Economic Development Region Stuttgart)
Zentrum für BrennstoffzellenTechnik (ZBT), Duisburg (Center for Fuel Cell Technology)

For Additional Information on the 18th f-cell:www.f-cell.de
Contact:
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www.tmrees.org“TMREES Conference Series” aim to promote sustainable, healthy and diverse ecosystems; encourage &support the Sustainability and development of security systems through green-based and clean resources andprocesses, bringing together participants from international organizations, universities, industry andadministrative around the world to exchange innovative and novel ideas, explore enabling technologies, shareexperiences in sustainability issues and to open a new window on the circumstances of the classical energy
sources and their harmful impact on the society.

Important deadlines:
Abstracts or papers submission: Up to August 05, 2018
Full Papers submission: Up to September 10, 2018
Hydrogen Energy Topics:
The Chairs are now calling for excellent research papers for the SPECIAL Edition in IJHE.
Special session related to Hydrogen Energy Topics
Special Issue of high quality hydrogen related papers at International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Paper Guidelines IJHE INDEX SUB-TOPICS

Renewable Energy and Sustainability Topics
Accepted Papers Related to Renewable Energy and Sustainability, and not included in IJHE SI, will be publishedin a Special Volumes by Elsevier at EGYPRO

Contact: info@tmrees.org

NURER 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS
6th International Conference
Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources

September 30~October 3, 2018
Jeju, Korea
The 6th International Conference on Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources (NURER2018) is recognized as one of the major international
conference for the exchange of information on scientific, engineering, and other technical aspects of innovative nuclear and renewable energy
science and technology. The conference is intended to provide an excellent opportunity to report on recent technical progress, discuss key
issues and fostering international collaboration for the promotion of innovative nuclear and renewable energy system development and theirsynergic collaborations. Papers related to science, engineering, facilities, experiments, modeling, analysis, design and safety are welcome.

Technical
Topics Fission Energy
 Fusion Energy
 Renewable Energy Hydrogen and Solar Energy
 Energy Management and Environmental Issues
 Renewable-Nuclear Synergy, International Cooperation and Innovation
 Other relevant topics

The working language of the conference and the proceedings is English. Technical papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be
published in a symposium proceedings. The authors are encouraged to send full extended papers to The International Journal of Hydrogen
Energy, The International Journal of Energy Research, Fusion Science and Engineering and The International Journal of Renewable Energy
after the conference.
Authors are invited to submit a one-page 400 word abstract (text only) to the NURER-2018.
Website: http://nurer2018.org

Due
Dates

 March 31
 May 31
 July 31
 August 31
 September 30~October 3

2018
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2018

Abstract Submission Deadline
Abstract Acceptance Notification
Early Registration Deadline
Manuscripts Submission Deadline
Conference Convened

Honorary Chairman
Prof. Dr. Sümer ŞAHİN (Near East University, Turkish Rep. of Northern Cyprus)
President Dr. Soon-Heung Chang (Handong Global University, Korea)
General Chairman
Prof. Dr. H. Mehmet ŞAHİN (Gazi University, Turkey)
Prof. Dr. M. S. Yim (KAIST, Korea)
Technical Program Chairman
Prof. Dr. Yonghee Kim (KAIST, Korea)
Technical Program Co-chairmen
Dr. Shannon M. Bragg-Sitton (Idaho National Laboratory, USA)
Prof. Dr. Minghuang Wang (Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, China)
Prof. Dr. Ruzhu WANG (Shanghai Jao Tong University, China)
Prof. Dr. Jin Ho Park (Young-Nam University Korea)
Organizer
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Co-sponsor
American Nuclear Society
Korean Nuclear Society
Near East Univesity
Gazi University
Contact Information
Tel: +82 42 350 8437
Fax: +82 42 350 8437
E-mail: nurer2018@kaist.ac.kr
Website: http://nurer2018.org

International Scientific Committee
Carlo RUBIA (CERN)
T. Nejat VEZİROĞLU (International Association of Hydrogen Energy, USA)
José M. MARTINEZ VAL (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Mohamed ABDOU (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)İbrahim DİNÇER (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Abdul WARIS (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia)
Zaki Su’ud (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia)
Ait Abderrahim HAMID (SCK CEN, Belgium)
Hiroshi SEKIMOTO (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Yanjun DAI (Shanghai Jao Tong University, China)Başar ŞARER (Near East University, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus)
Xue-Nong Chen (Karlsruhe Institut für Technology)
Emilio Minguez ( Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
José Manuel Perlado ( Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Ralph Moir (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,USA)
Charles Forsberg (MIT,USA)
Mohammad Reza Nematollahi ( Shiraz University, Iran)Rainer Salomaa ( Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Kijung JUNG (National Fusion Research Institute, Korea)
Sergi Hong (Kyunghee University, Korea)
Yican Wu (Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, China)
Askar Zhussupbekov (L.N. Gumelyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan)
Waclaw Gudowski (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan – KTH, Sweden)
Yong Hoon Jeong (KAIST, Korea)
Young-chul Ghim (KAIST, Korea)
Wejdan Abu Elhaija (Al Zaytoonah University, Jordan)

International Conference
Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources
Sep. 30 ~ Oct. 3, 2018, Jeju, Korea

NURER 2018

NURER 2018
September 30~October 3, 2018, Jeju, Korea

Venue

RAMADA PLAZA JEJU HOTEL

Located only five minutes away from Jeju International Airport and Jeju Port.
Web Site : http://www.ramadajeju.co.kr/ENG/

The
SightsJEJU ISLANDJEJU ISLAND is located in south-west and is the biggest island of Republic ofKorea. Basalt rocks cover more than 90% area of this volcanic island. The island
is oval-shaped with Halla Mountain in the center stretching 73 km from east to
west and 41 km from north to south. It has a mild oceanic climate, where thetemperature does not reach sub-zero levels (in most cases) even in the winters. A
universal recreational island with beautiful natural landscape received as a giftfrom nature. Relatively isolated from the rest of the world, the island’s nature has
been well preserved in its original state.
WORLD NATURAL HERITAGE refers to tangible assets with outstanding
universal values, which can’t be replaced by any others once destroyed and must
be preserved and maintained for the whole humankind. Jeju Island was designatedas World Natural Heritage in the title of ‘Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tube’ in2007.

More Information : http://www.ijto.or.kr/korean/International Conference
Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources
Sep. 30 ~ Oc. 3, 2018, Jeju, Korea

NURER 2018İstanbul-Türkiye

4th International Conference on

Recycling and Reuse(R&R 2018)24-26 October 2018

Aim and scope

TopicsThe purpose of the conference is to provide an excellent platform for• Renewable energy technologies,

researchers and practitioners, to exchange emerging ideas and investi-• Hydrogen Recycling Systems

gate key issues such as; recycling and reuse concerns, advanced• Utilizing modiﬁed fuel cell technology for hydrogen recovery andwastewater treatment, membrane technologies for recycling and reuse,recycling.

advanced oxidation technologies, waste reduction, water and wastewater• Hydrogen production and energy technologies,

management, solid waste treatment and management, hazardous waste• Solid waste management for recycling, reuse and energy recovery,

management, resource use, renewable energy technologies, current and• Green technologies for energy production and wastewater reuse,future recycling markets, public health issues, laws and policies of• Wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies,

recycling and reuse.

• Membrane technologies and wastewater separation technologies,• Hazardous waste management,• Public health issues,

Important Dates• Laws and policies of recycling and reuse

Information

Date

Event

15 May 2018

Abstract submission

1 June 2018

Notiﬁcation of acceptance

1 July 2018

Early bird registration

website:24-26 October 2018

Conference dates

rr@istanbul.edu.tr

For registration and more information please visit the conference
http://rr.istanbul.edu.tr

or

send

an

e-mailKeynote Speakers

Giorgio Bertanza

Ibrahim Dincer

Mustafa Ersoz

Bilsen Beler Baykal

Gianluca Li Puma

Marek Bryjak

Publications
Hydrogen and hydrogen energy technologies related
special issue is supported by

Other Publications:
Desalination and Water Treatment(Taylor & Francis)
International Journal of Global Warming(InderScience)- AND -

International Journal of
Hydrogen Energy

International
Association for
Hydrogen Energy(IAHE)

International Journal of
Hydrogen Energy(IJHE)

International Journal of Agriculture,
Environment and Food Sciences(DergiPark)

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International Conference on Electronics, Energy and Measurement
November 27‐29, 2018, Algiers, Algeria
The Laboratory of Instrumentation at USTHB organizes the International
Conference on Electronics, Energy and Measurement, IC2EM’2018 on
November 27-29, 2018. The conference provides opportunity to bringscientists and engineers from academia, research institutes and industrial
establishments to present and discuss the latest results in the field ofelectronics, instrumentation and measurement, sensors and energy. This
event follows previous workshops of the Laboratory of Instrumentation series(JLINS) that held in 2007, 2010 and 2012 respectively.

Conference themes

Papers are invited in the following themes, including, but not restricted to:Electronic systems
Instrumentation
 Analog and digital circuits
 Sensors technology and modeling Microwaves circuits design
 Advanced in sensing materials
 Power Electronics
 Smart sensors and interfaces
 Embedded systems
 MEMS, MOEMS and RFID
Energy systems
technology
 Renewable energy
 Optical fiber instrumentation
 Hybrid energy systems
 Microwaves instrumentation
 Energy storage
Applications
 Energy efficiency
 Solar and wind energy Hydrogen energy
 Petroleum and gas industries
Measurement
 Health sciences Metrology and standards
 Sport technology
 Laboratory accreditation
 Agriculture and Environment
 Data acquisition systems
 Smart cities and IoT devices
 Virtual measurement systems
 Disaster mitigation
Telecommunications
 Automotive industry
 Signal and image processing Avionics.
 RF and wireless technology
 Networks and cryptography

Important dates
Full paper submission July 10, 2018
Acceptance notification September 15, 2018
Final version paper September 30, 2018
Registration October 15, 2018
IC2EM-2018 Conference November 27‐29, 2018

Conference website: https://ic2em-2018.sciencesconf.org/

Call for Papers
1st International Conference on Smart Innovation,
Ergonomics and Applied Human Factors
SEAHF 201922nd-24th January 2019, Madrid, Spain
URL http://www.seahf.eu
Scope
The 1st edition of SEAHF conference targets different scientific fields and invites
academics, researchers and educators to share innovative ideas and expose their works
in the presence of experts from all over the world.
SEAHF focuses on original research and practice-driven applications. It provides acommon linkage between a vibrant scientific and research community and industry
professionals by offering a clear view on modern problems and challenges in
information technology. SEAHF offers a balance between innovative industrial
approaches and original research work while keeping the readers informed of the
security techniques, approaches, applications and new technologies. The conference isan opportunity for students, doctors, academics and researchers to open up to theoutside world, make connections and collaborate with various domain experts. SEAHF
particularly welcomes papers on the following topics:
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Smart technologies and Artificial Intelligence (SAI)
Green Energy Production and Transfer Systems (GETS)
Aerospace Engineering/ Robotics and IT (AERIT)
Information Security and Mobile Engineering (ISME)
IT in Bio-Medical Engineering and smart agronomy (BESA)
IT, Smart Marketing, Management & Tourism Policy (SMTP)
Technology and Education (TE)
Hydrogen & Fuel cell energy technologies (HFCET)

Important Dates:
Paper submission due: October 31st, 2018
Decision notification: November 30th, 2018
Camera-ready copy due: December 15th, 2018

Submission Types:
Accepted types
including:
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Full papers,
Short papers,
Posters.

submissions

are Also parallel activities and special session
proposals are accepted:•••

TutorialWorkshop
Demonstration

9th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards
St. Petersburg, Russia, 21-26 April 2019
The 9th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards ISFEH9 (www.isfeh9.org) will be held in
St.-Petersburg, Russia, on 21-26 April 2019. This conference continues past successful events organizedin Moscow, Russia (1995, 1997), Lake Windermere, UK (2000), Londonderry, UK (2003), Edinburgh,
UK (2007), Leeds, UK (2010), Providence, USA (2013), and Hefei, China (2016).
During its more than 20-year history, the Seminar has become one of the important international events infire and explosion science and engineering. The Seminar program will include broad areas of fire andexplosion studies, mitigation, and prevention. The following conference tracks (with the variety of topics
therein) are available for paper submission:• Combustion fundamentals of fires• Deflagration, DDT, detonation• Fire dynamics• Material behavior in fires• Fire safety engineering• Fire suppression• Hydrogen safety• Wildland fires• Toxicity• Evacuation and human behavior
Papers will be peer-reviewed and, if accepted, will be included in the book of the Seminar Proceedings.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in special issues ofFire Safety Journal, Combustion Explosion and Shock Waves, and International Journal of Hydrogen
Energy. These journals are indexed by Scopus and Web of Science.
Abstract submission deadline is July 1st, 2018. Please do your best to submit the one- or two-page
abstract via the conference website http://www.isfeh9.org/submission by this date, and do not hesitate tocontact ISFEH9 Organizing Committee at info@isfeh9.org if you have any inquiries. Notification withthe decision on the abstract will be sent off as indicated in the Key Dates section of the conference
website www.isfeh9.org.
The city of St.Petersburg is an exciting place to visit and has much to offer for participants andaccompanying persons, for whom an extensive social program is being developed.
Welcome to submit your research to ISFEH9 and to visit St.Petersburg!

Upcoming Meetings & Activities
August 2018
17th International Conference on Sustainable Energy
Technologies
August 21-23, 2018
Wuhan, China
http://set2018.org/
International Conference on Renewable Recovery andSustainable Development
August 23-24, 2018
Singaporehttps://www.renewableconference.com/index.php/
home/venue
2nd International Conference on Energy Materials andFuel Cell ResearchAugust 27-28, 2018
Boston, MA
https://energymaterials.conferenceseries.com/

September 2018
Advance Energy Materials Conference
September 10-12, 2018
Guildford, England
http://www.advanced-energymaterials-conference.com/
European Summer School on Hydrogen Safety 2018
September 17-21, 2018
Athens, Greece
http://www.jess-summerschool.eu/
18th f-cell
September 18-19, 2018
Stuttgart, Germany
www.f-cell.de/en/
TMREES-Greece Int’l Conference
September 19-21, 2018
Athens, Greece
http://tmrees.org/
Hydrogen + Fuel Cells North America
September 24-27, 2018
Anaheim, CA
https://www.h2fc-fair.com/usa/

6th International Conference on Nuclear and Renewable
Energy Resources
September 30-October 3, 2018
Ramada Plaza Jeju, Korea
http://nurer2018.org/

October 2018
4th International Conference on Recycling an Reuse
October 24-26, 2018
Istanbul, Turkey
http://rr.istanbul.edu.tr/
16th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen
Systems
October 28-November 2, 2018
Guangzhou, China
http://www.mh2018.cn/dct/page/1

November 2018
International Conference on Electronics, Energy andMeasurement
November 27-29, 2018
Algiers, Algeria
https://ic2em-2018.sciencesconf.org/

December 2018
7th International Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Conference
December 9-11, 2018
Jodhpur, India

January 2019
1st International Conference on Smart Innovation,
Ergonomics and Applied Human Factors
January 22-24, 2019
Madrid, Spain
http://www.seahf.eu/
Do you have a hydrogen-related meeting, workshop, or activity you would like us to include in the next issue of the IAHE
Newsletter? If so, please email a description and web link to
Kathy Williams at williamk@utk.edu.

50Get Connected—Internet Groups of Interest
LinkedIn Connections

Fuel Cells

Hydrogen Groupapplications and technologies. Encourages members to start

Hydrogen Group is a global specialist recruitment business,placing exceptional, hard to find candidates in over 70 coun-

Welcomes those who are interested in clean energy fuel cell
discussions that are relevant to fuel cells, to post promotions
and jobs, and to use this group to develop their professionaltries.

network.

Global Hydrogen Ambassadors Network

Fuel Cell Energy

Their goal is to exchange opinions on a topic, which may lookeasy at first glance, but is rather complex. All questions are allowed. A wealth of answers can be expected.

The Fuel Cell Energy Group advocates the use of Fuel Cell Energy & the promotion of its Technology and for those interested
in learning more about Fuel Cell Technology. Fuel Cell Professionals, Renewable Energy, Clean Technology, and Environmen-

World EcoEnergy Forum: Driving Innovation in the Energy tal Advocates are welcome. Solar, Wind, Biomass, Biofuel, Tidal
Power & Wave Professionals also welcome to learn about thisStorage and Smart Grid Industry
The aim of this group is to bring together executives responsible for R&D to discuss about new product development andsustainable development in the energy storage and smart-gridindustry.

Hydrogen Pathway
This is a very active group-page within LinkedIn that includes
discussions and latest news regarding hydrogen energy.

Renewable Energy Solutions
I.R.E.S. platform to create bridges between international based
investors, manufactures and wholesale companies in the Renewable Business Industry. Solar power, wind energy, tidal

emerging technology.

Facebook Connections
Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies
Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies was founded in Singapore in2003 and currently owns 5 international subsidiaries, including
a new subsidiary in the United States. Having started commercialization with small and simple products while preparing forlarger and more complex applications, Horizon alreadyemerged as the world’s largest volume producer of commercial
micro-fuel cell products, serving customers in over 65 countries.

power, geothermal power, air power, hydrogen, waste manage- International Association for Hydrogen Energy
ment.
Facebook community for sharing the information regarding

Global Renewable Energy Network
Global Renewable Energy Network (GReEN) is the premier business network for professionals and companies involved in thedevelopment, commercialization, and utilization of renewableenergies (e.g. bioenergy, geothermal, hydro, hydrogen, ocean,solar, and wind), worldwide.

Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Network
Bringing together professionals and enthusiasts alike, the Fuel
Cell & Hydrogen Network serves to connect those advocating
fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. The group welcomes people who are interested in all types of fuel cell technologies aswell as the wide variety of hydrogen technologies, and is not
exclusive of hydrogen fuel cells.

advances in hydrogen energy.

Blogs
Fuel Cell Nation
Fact-Based Analysis and Discussion of Clean Energy
http://blog.fuelcellnation.com/

H2-International
Offers a blog and newsletter that contains articles which are
published in the German magazine HZwei. Offers detailed information on hydrogen and fuel cells, and is a respectful attempt at continuing the work of Peter Hoffman, the author of

Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter.
http://www.h2-international.com/

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Board of Directors
Officers of the IAHE

Board of Directors of the IAHE

T. Nejat Veziroglu
President
Ayfer Veziroglu
Executive Vice President
John W. Sheffield
Executive Vice President
Ibrahim Dincer
Vice President
David S. Scott
Vice President
E. Caglan Kumbur
Secretary

Ex-Officio Board Directors
Chiara Fiori
Young Scientists Division President
Patrick Hallenbeck
Biohydrogen Division President
Yun Hang Hu
Hydrogen Storage Division President
Matthew Mench
Editor-in-Chief, IAHE Newsletter
Greg Naterer
Nuclear Hydrogen Division President
Andrei V. Tchouvelev
Hydrogen Safety Division President
Emre A. Veziroglu
Editor-in-Chief, IJHE

Frano Barbir (Croatia & U.S.A.)
Juan Carlos Bolcich, VP (Argentina)
Eniya Listiani Dewi (Indonesia)
Gibril S. Eljrushi (Libya)
Inci Eroğlu (Turkey)
David Hart (Switzerland)
Terry Kimmel (Canada)
Vladimir Linkov, VP (South Africa)
Cesare Marchetti (Austria)
Zong Qiang Mao, VP (China)
Paulo Emilio de Miranda (Brasil)
Nazim Z. Muradov (Azerbaijan & U.S.A.)
Byeong Soo Oh (South Korea)
Bruno Pollet (Norway)
Alexander Y. Ramenskiy, VP (Russia)
Jacques Saint-Just (France)
John W. Sheffield, Executive VP (U.S.A.)
Giuseppe Spazzafumo (Italy)
Onkar N. Srivastava, VP (India)
Detlef Stolten, VP (Germany)
Hirohisa Uchida, VP (Japan)
Ayfer Veziroglu, Executive VP (U.S.A.)

On the Web
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http://www.iahe.org
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Miami, FL 33155, USA
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE)The Official Journal of the IAHE
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