April 2019 Volume 11

Issue 2

Electronic Newsletter

THANK YOU
Since the first issue of the IAHE newsletter a decade ago in April 2009, we have watched the fields ofhydrogen generation, storage, and usage continue to evolve. Today, fuel cell automobiles are on the roadand in regular use, hydrogen infrastructures continue to grow, and the future remains bright. We haveenjoyed bringing this newsletter to you, but all good things come to an end. IAHE leadership hasannounced that there will be a thrust to transform the IAHE webpage into a new dynamic template.
Integral to that transformation will be the elimination of this newsletter and creation of an online
magazine with feature stories written by trend setters. Inspired by Professor Carl-Jochen Winter’s theme“HYtime” (hydrogen time), the new online magazine will be called HYtimes. Look for the changes online at
http://iahe.org/.
Thank you for all the feedback over the years, I have enjoyed the time putting this newsletter together andwatching the field evolve.
Best regards,

Matthew M. Mench, PhD
Condra Chair of Excellence Professor and Head
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tickle College of Engineering

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Hydrogen Energy2Vehicle News
Automakers to show off fuel-cell hybrids at
this year’s Vancouver car show

hybrids.

The “Hydrogen Highway” promised in 2007 by former
premier Gordon Campbell and then California governor
For the first time, three major auto makers will be showing Arnold Schwarzenegger never materialized — there wasoff their fuel-cell electric vehicles at the Vancouver Inter- supposed to be dozens of hydrogen fueling stations built
national Auto Show.
between the two regions. However, California now has 36hydrogen stations and Vancouver has one, with another inJason Heard, executive director of the show, said the
Burnaby soon to open.
Hyundai Nexo, Honda Clarity and Toyota Mirai were theonly fuel-cell electric hybrids on the market in North
Over the next few years HTEC will open five more hydroAmerica and would all be on display this year.
gen stations in Vancouver and one on Vancouver Island. It
takes a lot less time to refuel a cell with hydrogen than it“Cars can go up to almost 600 clicks on a full (fuel-cell)
does to recharge a battery for an electric vehicle, but electank now and this is going to be something that’s formi- tric vehicle recharging stations vastly outweigh hydrogen
dable in the future,” said Heard. “We are fortunate to berefueling stations. There are only about 11,000 fuel-cellon the leading edge of it.”vehicles on the road right now worldwide, compared to
five million plug-in electric vehicles.
This year’s show at the Vancouver Convention Centre
starts Tuesday, running until Sunday.
The recently released 2019 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle
Market report stated the sector would grown considerably
Heard said the auto show will also feature a booth frombetween 2019 and 2028, due in part to government initiathe Hydrogen Technology and Energy Corporation, a Vantives and technology advancements, with North America
couver company responsible for installing hydrogen fueldominating the industry.
ing stations in B.C.
“We’ve never had a group like HTEC coming in and talking about the future of stations,” he said. “The West Coast(of North America) is leading the charge and Vancouver ison that cusp. As the technology continues to develop weare going to see some major things over the next few
years.”
Vancouver has played a key role in developing fuel cells— in which compressed hydrogen and oxygen are mixed
to create electric power, with water being the only exhaust — due to the creation of Ballard Research Inc. in
1979.
The Ballard group moved from battery research into fuelcell research, and in 2008 created a spinoff company tolook specifically at fuel cells for cars. This was eventuallytaken over by Ford and Daimler and the bulk of researchand production moved away from Vancouver.
However, the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada remain
integral to the future of fuel-cell cars that have gained
traction since moving to the hybrid model with batteryelectric power, similar to the more popular gas-electric

Toyota last year revealed it would expand production ofits Mirai to at least 30,000 by 2020, while Hyundai said it
would produce 700,000 fuel cell systems a year by 2030,
with most being for fuel-cell electric vehicles.
In B.C., the provincial government has promised to have
10 per cent of cars sold in the province be zero emission
by 2025 and 100 per cent by 2040. Zero emission vehicles,
which include fuel-cell cars, are eligible for subsidies.
According to a 2018 KPMG report on key automotive
trends, fuel-cell electric vehicles were the No. 1 trend of
the year.
Source: https://vancouversun.com/news/localnews/automakers-to-show-off-fuel-cell-hybrids-at-thisyears-vancouver-car-show

Japan looks past electric, bets on hydrogen
powered cars
When it comes to electric cars, battery-powered vehicles
dominate the roads. Sales of battery electric cars are set
to take off. Auto companies are making more models,3

Vehicle Newsand countries are passing regulations to reduce carbon
emissions. Even states like Pennsylvania have a plan toencourage more residents to buy battery electrics.
But Japan isn’t sure that’s the future — or, at least, theonly future for electrified transportation. The country has
ambitious goals to become the “hydrogen society,” andright now, the focus is on its automakers.

regulations and tax credits incentivize electric vehicles. It’s
hard to convince consumers to buy a car they can’t easily
fuel up. And it’s just as difficult to get energy companies
to build the infrastructure if there aren’t enough vehicles
to make it profitable.

Part of Japan’s goal to be the first “hydrogen society” includes a target of building 900 hydrogen fueling stations
by 2030. The country’s roughly 100 stations were subsiAt Toyota’s LFA Works factory in Aichi prefecture, workers dized by the government with continued operational supinstall the carbon-fiber hydrogen tanks on Toyota’s new
port from manufacturers like Toyota.
hydrogen-powered fuel cell car, known as the Mirai —The energy ministry has ambitious goals in the lead-up towhich means “future” in Japanese.
the 2020 Olympics. The city of Tokyo plans to deploy 100
This tiny factory, within Toyota’s larger Motomachi plant, hydrogen fuel cell buses for the games, with a longerproduces only about 10 cars each day. All are assembled term goal of 200,000 such vehicles in the next six years.
by hand.
Hydrogen vs. battery electric
Plant manager Matsuo Yoshiyuki owns a Mirai and loves
With about five million plug-in battery electric cars worlddriving it.
wide, fuel cell cars are in their infancy. Hydrogen’s detrac“I believe in the future of hydrogen,” he said. “It’s very im- tors say the fuel cell doesn’t make sense given the greater
portant for the [environment].”
energy efficiency of plug-in battery powered vehicles.
But Yoshiyuki says owning a hydrogen car isn’t very convenient.

But in countries like Japan, where much of the population
lives in dense urban areas, it’s not easy to charge up abattery electric vehicle. It’s here where companies like
“Sometimes I have problems [filling up] with hydrogen,”Toyota are banking on the convenience of hydrogen overhe said. “There are not enough stations and the hours are plug-ins.
very limited.”
A hydrogen fuel cell doesn’t burn anything — it uses achemical reaction between the hydrogen and the oxygenfrom the air to produce electricity — and hydrogenpowered cars emit only water. So in a world striving to
reduce its carbon emissions, it sounds like a great alternative to the internal combustion engine.

Matthew Klippenstein, co-author of online publication
Fuel Cell Industry Review, says without a garage, or regular parking space that has access to an electrical outlet,hydrogen fuel cells make more sense.

“There’s just no behavior change as long as you have[hydrogen] infrastructure in place,” he said. “We go to thesame gas station and fuel up in the same few minutes andBut the Mirai is expensive — even with generous Japanese just keep on tootling on. And I think that is ultimately thegovernment subsidies that bring it down from the equiva- reason that Toyota and other carmakers now have morelent of $70,000 to $50,000. The largest cost is the fuel cell, interest in fuel cells.”
which Toyota says will drop as production ramps up.
Hydrogen’s chicken and egg problem
The lack of hydrogen fuel infrastructure challenges automakers. Only about 11,000 fuel cell vehicles are on theroad worldwide, according to Juan Pontes with EV Volumes. About half are in California, where strict emission

Klippenstein says he sees the divide between hydrogenfuel cells and battery electric plug-ins tracking the parallel
path as the gasoline and diesel split familiar to American
consumers.
“We will see a similar split where batteries will, for decades at least, dominate the light duty vehicle passenger

4Vehicle Newscars whereas fuel cells will ultimately win out in the heavi- tralia that would use lignite coal to produce hydrogen forfuel cell vehicles. She also worries that the many subsidies
er applications.”
for hydrogen come at the expense of promoting renewaIn South Korea, where the majority of residents also live in ble energy.
urban areas, automaker Hyundai just announced that it
Still, Bertel Schmitt, a former car industry advertising execplans to produce 700,000 fuel cell cars a year by 2030.
utive who lives in Tokyo, says it makes sense for JapanThe Hydrogen Society
and its automakers to include hydrogen vehicles in theirlong-game plan.
A new hydrogen fuel plant is rising several yards from Fukushima’s Daiichi nuclear power plant, the site of the nu- “They pretty much realize that the exhaust regulations willclear plant meltdown after the 2011 tsunami.
get tougher and tougher,” he said. “What is being enacted
That accident forced Japan to shut down all of its nuclear
reactors, which had provided about one-third of thecountry’s electricity. Eight have since re-opened. Despitethat energy source, Japan has always had to import all of
its fossil fuels and is the world’s No. 1 importer of liquefied natural gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information
Administration.

right now, in 2020 in Europe, is nothing compared to what
will come five years later, 10 years later.”
For now, though, Schmitt says the internal combustion
engine remains the cheapest and most convenient car on
the market. Despite massive investment, he says Toyota
knows hydrogen won’t be taking over the roads anytimesoon.

But hydrogen is abundant, and the fuel could be produced anywhere.

“They know that the guy sitting in the hydrogen fuelingstation will be very, very lonely for quite a while.”

Ken Koyama from the Institute of Energy Economics, aJapanese think tank, agrees that hydrogen is a good bet
for Japan.

Source: https://whyy.org/articles/japan-looks-pastelectric-bets-on-hydrogen-powered-cars/

Fuel cell breakthrough brings hydrogen cars

“We are always talking about the long run future,” Koyama said. “It’s not the next year or a five-year time horizon. one step closer
It’s a 20-year, 30-year, 40-year, 50 years because if we are
The University of Science and Technology of China rereally thinking about climate change it’s a long-, very, very
vealed that a new type of catalyst has been developed tolong-term strategy is critical.”prevent hydrogen fuel cells from failure, which could playa major role in boosting the hydrogen fuel cell automoProducing the hydrogen fuel is itself energy intensive.
And critics point out that while the hydrogen fuel cell car bile industry.
emits only water, if fossil fuels are used to produce thehydrogen fuel, then the vehicles still contribute to global
warming, just as battery electric vehicles charged with energy produced by coal plants can’t be considered completely carbon-free.
“So it’s not really clean if that is the case,” says Kimiko
Haraka of the Kiko Network, a Japanese environmentalgroup.

The result was published in Nature - the world's leading
multidisciplinary science journal - at the end of lastmonth.
It said the newly-developed catalyst can protect hydrogenfuel cells from being poisoned by carbon monoxide, extend the battery life and allow the battery to work in cold
temperatures.

"This result may greatly accelerate the advent of hydrogen
Haraka is critical of a plan by a number of Japanese comfuel cell vehicles," said Lu Junling, one of the professors at
panies, including Kawasaki Heavy Industries, J-Power, Iwathe School of Chemistry and Materials Science of USTC
tani Corporation and Marubeni, to build a plant in Auswho initiated the research, according to Anhui Daily.

5Vehicle NewsThe goal for Lu and his team is to develop a cheap, active
and selective catalyst for the oxidation of carbon monoxide, which can protect fuel cells and offer a means forplants to produce high-purity hydrogen, Anhui Daily reported.

quired a 51 percent stake in Shanghai Fuel Cell Vehicle
Powertrain, aiming to unveil its first hydrogen fuel cell
model in 2022.

Zhengzhou Yutong Bus and Foton Motor have put hydrogen fuel cell commercial vehicles into use. And China National Heavy Duty Truck Group has developed three hyWith a high energy conversion efficiency and zero emissions, hydrogen fuel cells are regarded as one of the main drogen fuel cell models.
development directions of the new energy automobile
Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing invested in a hydroindustry by some insiders and experts.
gen fuel cell vehicle plant in Foshan, Guangdong province
in early 2018.
It takes only several minutes for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to "refuel", allowing the car to run up to 350 to 600
With a total investment of 12 billion yuan ($1.77 billion),kilometers.
the plant is expected to go into production at the end of
this year and has an annual production target of 160,000
Meanwhile, electric vehicles take several hours to fully
charge and have ranges of 200 to 300 km, which could be units, China Business News Daily reported.
shorter in cold temperatures, according to China Business
However, the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
News Daily.
still faces difficulties, including the storage of hydrogen"By 2025, fuel cell technology will be mature. The number energy and establishing hydrogen refueling stations.
of fuel cell vehicles may have hit 50,000 to 100,000 units,"
By the end of 2017, there were 328 hydrogen refuelingsaid Ouyang Minggao, an academician of the Chinese
stations worldwide, of which 12 were in China.
Academy of Sciences and a new energy vehicle expert,
according to Economic Daily.
A raft of domestic and overseas automakers have dashedinto the hydrogen fuel cell automobile industry.

They are used to serve the research and testing of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to a great extent, according to Economic Daily.

South Korean and Japanese giants have taken the lead in Source: http://www.ecns.cn/news/2019-02-18/detaildeveloping and applying hydrogen energy, Economic Dai- ifzeratr8870405.shtml
ly reported.

More flexible nanomaterials can make fuelcell cars cheaperSouth Korean automaker Hyundai rolled out the world's
first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell car in February
2013. Japanese carmakers Honda and Toyota have proA new method of increasing the reactivity of ultrathin
duced hydrogen fuel cell models on a large scale. Hyundai nanosheets, just a few atoms thick, can someday makesigned an agreement with German auto giant Audi last
fuel cells for hydrogen cars cheaper, finds a new Johns
June to develop hydrogen energy technology and set up Hopkins study.
an industry chain of hydrogen energy automobiles. Honda and Toyota have gone into partnership with General
A report of the findings, to be published Feb. 22
Motors and Mercedes-Benz respectively in terms of hyin Science, offers promise towards faster, cheaper producdrogen energy applications.
tion of electrical power using fuel cells, but also of bulk
chemicals and materials such as hydrogen.
According to Economic Daily, South Korea is scheduled toincrease its production capability of hydrogen fuel cell"Every material experiences surface strain due to thepassenger cars to 100,000 units by 2025.
breakdown of the material's crystal symmetry at
the atomic level. We discovered a way to make these crysChinese independent auto brand Great Wall Motor actals ultrathin, thereby decreasing the distance between

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atoms and increasing the material's reactivity," says Chao
Wang, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, and oneof the study's corresponding authors.

ronmentally-friendly cars more accessible for everybody,"
says Wang.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-02-flexiblenanomaterials-fuel-cell-cars.html#jCp.

Strain is, in short, the deformation of any material. For example, when a piece of paper is bent, it is effectively dis- Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-02-flexiblenanomaterials-fuel-cell-cars.html
rupted at the smallest, atomic level; the intricate lattices
that hold the paper together are forever changed.

Hexagon and Audi team up for hydrogen
In this study, Wang and colleagues manipulated the strain deal
effect, or distance between atoms, causing the material tochange dramatically. By making those lattices incredibly
thin, roughly a million times thinner than a strand of human hair, the material becomes much easier to manipulate just like how one piece of paper is easier to bend
than a thicker stack of paper.

German automobile manufacturer Audi has selected Hexagon Composites’ new subsidiary Hexagon Purus for ahydrogen development project.

The dedicated business division for Hexagon’s groupwide hydrogen activities, which was launched earlier this"We're essentially using force to tune the properties ofweek, will supply high-pressure tanks for a multi-year hythin metal sheets that make up electrocatalysts, which are drogen tank development and small-serial production
part of the electrodes of fuel cells," says Jeffrey Greeley,project.
professor of chemical engineering at Purdue and anotherone of the paper's corresponding authors. "The ultimate
Audi said at its annual press conference last year that it
goal is to test this method on a variety of metals."
wants to launch a small series of hydrogen fuel cell cars in
2020.
"By tuning the materials' thinness, we were able to create
more strain, which changes the material's properties, inRick Rashilla, Senior Vice-President of Hexagon Purus, encluding how molecules are held together. This means you thused, “Winning this project is yet another milestone forhave more freedom to accelerate the reaction you want
Hexagon and the rapidly growing fuel cell electric vehicle
on the material's surface," explains Wang.
industry. Our common environmental commitment now
results in this collaboration project to realize the great
One example of how optimizing reactions can be useful in potential of hydrogen fuel.”
application is increasing the activity of catalysts used forfuel cell cars. While fuel cells represent a promising tech- The strong momentum towards global zero-emission
nology toward emission-free electrical vehicles, the chal- economies is stimulating demand for Hexagons clean molenge lies in the expense associated with the prebility and storage solutions.
cious metal catalysts such as platinum and palladium, limiting its viability to the vast majority of consumers. A more To focus the company’s pursuit of the growing market
active catalyst for the fuel cells can reduce cost and clear opportunities for renewable fuel solutions, Hexagon
the way for widespread adoption of green, renewable en- launched Hexagon Purus through which it will continue todevelop cutting-edge solutions working closely with supergy.
porting car, bus and truck manufacturers, fleet, rail andWang and colleagues estimate that their new method can marine operators, gas distributors and refueling station
increase catalyst activity by 10 to 20 times, using 90 per- operators.
cent less of precious metals than what is currently reThe business division includes manufacturing, sales &quired to power a fuel cell.
marketing, R&D locations and personnel in Norway, Ger"We hope that our findings can someday aid in the promany and the US.
duction of cheaper, more efficient fuel cells to make envi-

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however, Toyota’s ‘space mobility’ concept for the pres“We strongly believe in the future of clean energy - andHexagon Purus is our response to support this transition,” surized rover being studied by JAXA and Toyota is pretty
small. It envisions a 6 meter by 5.3-meter vehicle standing
said Michael Kleschinski, President of Hexagon Purus.
3.8 meters tall. That's enough room for two people, say“For us, Purus represents something new, pure and
JAXA and Toyota, or four in an emergency. Toyota andunique. We are clarifying and sharpening our clean ener- JAXA also revealed that they have been jointly studying
gy focus. Hexagon Purus gives us the opportunity to do
the concept of a manned, pressurized rover since May
something different!”
2018.
Source: https://www.gasworld.com/hexagon-and-auditeam-up-/2016713.article

Toyota reveals ‘Self-Driving Electric Moon
Car’ as Japan prepares to land astronauts on
the moon
Japan is planning a moon
landing for2029 andwants its
astronauts to
explore thelunar surface
in a vehicle
built by Japanese automaker Toyota.

The moon presents some special challenges for any vehicle. Gravity is one-sixth of Earth's, and the lunar surface ispocked by craters, cliffs, and hills. "It is exposed to radiation and temperature conditions that are much harsher
than those on Earth, as well as an ultra-high vacuum environment," said Wakata. "For a wide-ranging human exploration of the moon, a pressurized rover that can travel
more than 10,000 km in such environments is a necessity."
Wakata also stressed the need for a 'Team Japan' approach to space exploration.

That's a message that appears to be finding favor. Japan
Airlines-backed startup ispace last month announced thatits HAKUTO-R mission will orbit the moon in 2020 aheadof a mission to land on the surface in 2021. An finalist in
the ill-fated Google Lunar XPRIZE, ispace plans to map,and eventually recover, water ice on the moon and learn
how to use it as a resource. If it can separate lunar water
into hydrogen and oxygen, it could provide fuel for ToyoThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) andToyota announced Tuesday that it will collaborate on in- ta's moon buggy, as well as for a self-sufficient moon
ternational space exploration, specifically on developing a base, and even rockets.
manned, pressurized rover that uses Toyota's fuel cell veAside from Japan Airlines, HAKUTO-R's corporate partners
hicle (FCV) technologies.
include Japanese national daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun“Manned, pressurized rovers will be an important element and Japan NGK Spark Plug, which wants to test solid-statebattery technology on the moon in 2021. Another is Mitsupporting human lunar exploration, which we envisionsui Sumitomo Insurance, which last month announced awill take place in the 2030s, " said Koichi Wakata, JAXA
new lunar insurance service. “The availability of lunar exVice President. "We aim at launching such a rover intoploration insurance will encourage new players to particispace in 2029."
pate in the lunar industry by reducing the risk of entry,”
said ispace founder Takeshi Hakamada last month. “WithJAXA, which earlier this month landed its Hayabusa2
probe on the asteroid Ryugu, is hoping the collaboration the ability to insure our landers and rovers, ispace and its
with Toyota will "give rise to intellectual properties" need- customers will be able to concentrate on realizing our vision without hesitation."ed for international space exploration.
Source:Although the amount of fuel that could be taken to thehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/03
moon would be limited, said JAXA and Toyota, the pres/12/toyota-reveals-self-driving-moon-car-as-japansurized rover would have a total lunar-surface cruising
prepares-to-land-astronauts-on-therange of more than 10,000 km.
moon/#6ede0cea6dc8

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Hydrogen powered trucks seen as the futurefor zero-emission trucking
Batteries may be the future for carbon-free cars but thismight not be the case for trucks.
Hydrogen powered trucks could be the future of thetrucking industry, according to Maarten Wetselaar, Integrated Gas and New Energies Director, Royal Dutch Shell.
Wetselaar said at the 2019 edition of CERAWeek that hydrogen is essential for the decarbonization of heavytransport.

One of the issues with batteries is that they are heavy.
While this isn’t a problem for cars, the battery capacitythat would be needed to power a truck would add a significant amount of weight to the vehicle. This weight
would be far more than hydrogen, where the conversionof an internal combustion engine hydrogen-driven fuelcell adds minimal weight to the vehicle.
Hydrogen is also seen as versatile. Beyond just being usedin heavy vehicles, hydrogen has advantages over batteries
as it can be used as a transport fuel, a power-generating
fuel, stored for lengthy periods of time, etc.

All that said, at the moment, much needs to change in the“For the decarbonization of heavy transport, there really is industry for there to be a viable future for hydrono alternative to hydrogen,” Wetselaar said at one of the gen powered trucks. According to several speakers at theevent, a governmental role in the transition will be necesopening sessions of the 2019 edition ofsary for any transition to occur at all.
CERAWeek, reports Freight Waves.
CERAWeek, which was held in Houston, is a gathering that Source: https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/hydrogenbrings together several thousand leading energy decision- powered-trucks-seen-as-the-future-for-zero-emissiontrucking/8537130/
makers from both government and private industry. It isconsidered to be the world’s leading energy conference.

It wasn’t only Wetselaar who voiced this opinion
about hydrogen trucking. Other sessions during the eventthat were hosted by various CERA officials also discussed
the future of hydrogen powered trucks and how it wasgoing to be this alternative fuel that would power heavy
vehicles of the future and not battery electrics.

Skoda Electric & Proton to work on fuel cellelectric buses

ProtonPower
Systemshas
signed a
Hydrogen powered trucks have more advantages overletter ofbattery powered trucks.
intentwith
There are a number of reasons why several of the world’s
Skoda Electric a.s. in the Czech Republic, as the partners
leading energy decision-makers believe that hydrogen will
aim to jointly develop, sell and service fuel cell electrichave advantages over batteries in the future, in regard tobuses using Proton’s modular ‘HyRange’ systems.
heavy duty trucks.
Note that Skoda Electric is not part of the Volkswagen
For instance, hydrogen doesn’t exist as a stand-alone
Group unlike the Skoda brand for cars but runs under themolecule in nature. It is always attached to something androof of Skoda Transportation. The Czech outlet specializes
energy needs to be applied to separate the hydrogenin making electric motors for transport, so for vehicles
molecule from whatever it might be attached to. Theresuch as buses, tramways, suburban trains and the like as
fore, a low carbon source, such as solar power, can be utiSkoda Electric.
lized as the energy source to generate hydrogen. Although most of today’s hydrogen is produced from therOn the cooperation at hand, Proton announced the promal processes by reforming natural gas, cleaner productotype fuel cell electric buses built with Skoda Electriction methods, including solar and water electrolysis arewould be brought to European bus operators by the firstbeing researched and are improving all the time.

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quarter of 2020. The initial target is to produce and sell at
least ten such hydrogen vehicles per year.

lect local dealerships.

"Hydrogen vehicles are the most promising type of alterProton Power Systems chief executive officer Faiz Nahab native powertrain transportation in existence today. It's
said he was “pleased” to have scored this agreement with important for us to make innovative green technologies
like NEXO readily available for Canadians to ensure a susthe Czech manufacturer. Their market value rose 11 pertainable future," says Don Romano, President and CEO ofcent after the announcement.
Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. "We're thrilled to launch
The company has been looking for cooperation for some NEXO in B.C, as the province is a leader in implementing
time now with another example being Proton’s planned
important sustainability initiatives and is aligned with our
joint venture with e.Go Mobile to develop a fuel cell range vision of introducing new means of clean mobility."
extender for their minibus reportedly. Although this is unHyundai has always been a leader in sustainable transporconnected, it is remarkable that the Munich-based startup e.Go has also become a Volkswagen partner most re- tation, remaining the only automaker in Canada to offer
vehicles with four electrified powertrains including hybrid,
cently. In this case, they plan on sharing the upcoming
plug-in hybrid, battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell.
MEB platform for electric vehicles.
With the launch of NEXO, Hyundai becomes the only auSource: https://www.electrive.com/2019/03/17/skodatomotive manufacturer in Canada to offer a second genelectric-proton-to-work-on-fuel-cell-electric-buses/
eration fuel cell vehicle – the first being the Tucson Fuel
Cell which launched in 2015.

Hyundai Canada launches NEXO, becomes
first manufacturer to make fuel cell technology accessible to Canadian drivers"We are excited to be the first carshare to offer consumers
the opportunity to experience a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle
for themselves," says Patrick Nangle, CEO of Modo.
"Supporting a cleaner BC aligns with Modo's social andHyundai Auto Canada Corp. announced today the nationenvironmental purpose as a member-owned co-operative.
al launch of the first-ever NEXO, Canada's only fuel cellWe are grateful to Hyundai Canada and the Canadian Hypowered SUV and the first vehicle of its kind to be madedrogen and Fuel Cell Association for their financial contrieasily accessible to consumers. By collaborating with Mobution in making this possible."do, the first Vancouver-based carsharing co-operative ofits kind, the NEXO will bring fuel cell technology to a
While hydrogen fueling infrastructure is still in the earlymuch wider audience than ever before.
stages of development, Vancouver is home to one
of Canada's only public refueling stations located in the
NEXO is powered by hydrogen, a fully sustainable energy
city's Marpole neighborhood. Members of the public who
source, which allows the vehicle to emit clean water vapor
are interested in test-driving NEXO are able to do so atand purify the air as it is being driven. This technology althe Vancouver International Auto Show, which runs
so provides the vehicle with superior range conservationfrom March 19 through 24.
in cold climates compared to other battery electric powertrains, making them particularly resilient for Canadian win- Source: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/hyundaiters. What's more – a five minute refill will carry you for up canada-launches-nexo-becomes-first-manufacturer-toto 570 KM.
make-fuel-cell-technology-accessible-to-canadianModo will make two NEXO vehicles available for consumer use in the coming weeks through its carsharing services. This collaboration will provide Vancouverites with
unparalleled access to fuel cell vehicles, allowing
more Canadians than ever to learn about and experience
this technology firsthand. Hyundai will also be the first to
make fuel cell vehicles available for retail sale through se-

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Bentley eyes up hydrogen fuel cell
technology

made. "We are looking at several concepts, the cooperation with the Group means we have lots of technologies
available,” Tietz said.
The news follows comments made by Bentley’s design
director Stefan Sielaff at last year’s Geneva show, who favors a four-door coupe as the firms first EV. “The next stepfor us is an electric, unique Bentley,” Sielaff told us. “We
are still in the phase of trying to define what it could be
but I think it should be a vehicle that contains certain
coupe-style and elegance. I don’t think it should be something raised, like an SUV.”
Source:https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/bentley/106215/bentleyeyes-up-hydrogen-fuel-cell-technology

Bentley will have electrified version of all its cars by 2025,
but the British company is also looking at fuel cell tech
Bentley bosses have revealed to Auto Express that firm islooking into the development of hydrogen fuel cell technology.
The British company has previously announced plans tooffer an electrified powertrain on every one of its models
by 2025, but Bentley’s head of engineering Werner Tietz
has said that plug-in hybrid and fully electric vehicles are
only two of the solutions the brand is working on.
“We have a lot of opportunities - we will have electrified
versions of all our names plates by 2025, this is a clear
strategy,” Tietz told us. “We are discussing fully electric
solutions but we have to think about different technologies away from battery technology, things like fuel cell
technology - this is something we have to look at. If you
want to tow 3.5 tons you cannot do that with a battery
electric vehicle.”

Researchers develop sensor systems to safeguard hydrogen fueling
A research team is working to develop a sensor systemthat can provide continuous in situ monitoring of hydrogen quality at hydrogen fueling stations. The infraredmeasuring cell will be installed inside the hydrogen filling
station and will have to operate under very challenging
conditions.
The sensor system has to work reliably, despite extremely
high pressures and short refueling times. The new sensor
system will be undergoing operational trials this autumn.
The research team from Saarbrücken will be at this year’s
Hannover Messe, where they will be showcasing theirhigh-pressure test rig at the Saarland Research and Innovation Stand.

Cars don’t like it if they are forced to run on low-quality or
low-purity fuels. And the same is true of vehicles powered
by fuel cell technology. The driver of a fuel cell vehicle fills
However, this technology is unlikely to arrive before 2025. up with hydrogen rather than a fossil-based fuel, but even
Bentley’s immediate focus is on developing longer-range hydrogen can be contaminated. Impurities such as sulfurplug-in hybrid models. Tietz added: “An important next
containing compounds, ammonia or hydrocarbons can all
step is a longer range for plug-in hybrid; if we have a de- contaminate the hydrogen during the production process,velopment in battery technology maybe 100km is possiduring transportation to the hydrogen station or duringble.”
the refilling process. And that can make driving a lot lesspleasurable.
Tietz added that being part of the VW Group offers up a
lot of opportunities of which they can take advantage of, “Contaminants can actually poison the fuel cell,” explains
although no decision on what path to take has been
sensor expert Professor Andreas Schütze from Saarland

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University. Even low levels of impurities can damage thefuel cell membranes. As a result, the fuel cell produces
less electricity, power output is reduced and the vehicle
travels shorter distances. In the worst case, the fuel cell
will be irreversibly damaged and the car will simply stoprunning.

chemical composition of the gas, the infrared spectrum
will change accordingly. This allows us to detect the presence of unwanted additives or contaminants,” explains
Schütze.

Up until now, the purity of the hydrogen was determinedby analyzing samples in a laboratory. At Saarland University and at Zema—Center for Mechatronics and Automation Technology in Saarbrücken, researchers are working
on a sensor system that continuously monitors the qualityof the hydrogen during the refueling process. “The challenge is twofold: measuring at the required level of precision and coping with the conditions under which the sensor system needs to operate,” said Schütze. The refuelingprocess uses hydrogen pressures of 700 to 900 bar andlasts less than three minutes.

“One of the questions we’re studying at the moment iswhether and how the intensity of the infrared spectrum
we measure changes with pressure. The sensor system has
to be able to reliably detect a range of contaminants at
concentration levels significantly below what we find inoils,” explains Marco Schott, a doctoral student working
on the hydrogen measuring cell.

Members of his research team are currently conducting
experiments and are assigning particular infrared absorpTo stop things ever getting that far, Schütze and his team tion signals to the various contaminants. They are also
determining which wavelengths of the infrared spectrum
have been working with research partners to develop
technology that ensures that the fuel cell is only fed with are most suitable for the measurements and are calibrathigh purity hydrogen, thereby extending the service life of ing the system. These important preparatory stages need
the fuel cell. Project partners include the Fraunhofer Insti- to be completed before this autumn, when the sensor system will be installed in a hydrogen refueling station fortute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and Hydac Electronic
operational trials.
GmbH.

The research team is therefore developing an infraredmeasuring cell that can measure reliably and accurately
under these extreme conditions. The very high pressures
to which their sensors are exposed are used by the team
to further improve the sensitivity of their process.
Schütze and his research team have already produced
marketable measuring cells for monitoring the quality ofoils and other liquids. But the pressures that the researchers are now having to deal with mean that they are in uncharted territory.
“Up until now, no one has made measurements of thistype at pressures this high. Normally, these sorts of measurements are done at pressures of no more than 40 or 50
bar,” said Schütze. The measuring cell for the odorless gas
H2 is installed inside the hydrogen fueling station and thehydrogen fuel flows through a small tube. “We illuminate
the gas passing through the tube with light from an infrared source and we collect the light passing out on the opposite side of the tube. If there has been a change in the

Source: https://pacetoday.com.au/researchers-developsensor-system-safeguard-hydrogen-fuelling/

Toyota to help encourage Australians to drivehydrogen fuel cell vehicles
Australians will have the opportunity to drive fuel cell vehicles first hand.
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are not a common site on Australian roads, as is the case with most nations. The main
reason for this is due to the fact that there is very little
infrastructure available to support the use of these vehicles. That being said, Toyota will be loaning its Mirai vehicles to give some Australian’s a better understanding ofwhat it’s actually like to drive a hydrogen car.
Toyota will be loaning two examples of its Mirai sedan to
be trailed locally.
The hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on short-term loans fromthe Japanese automaker, will be shared between energy
delivery provider AusNet Service and sister company
Mondo and peak body, Hydrogen Mobility Australia.

12Vehicle NewsThe short-term loans of the Mirais (approximately one tothree month-long loans) will provide members of theseorganizations with the opportunity to sample what its liketo drive fuel cell vehicles in the real world.

Hydrogen railway train under development inSouth Korea“There is a common misconception that hydrogen-electricvehicles, like the Mirai FCEV, drive differently,” Matt MacLeod, Toyota Australia’s manager of advance technology
vehicles said, reports Drive.
MacLeod explained that due to these misconceptions it isimportant to provide people with a first-hand experienceof the car to better understand it.
The hydrogen fuel cell vehicles loan program is considered to be an important step in encouraging hydrogenfuel adoption.

The Korea Railroad Research Institute is developing a hydrogen train as part of a project.

The railway technology research project for which the hyMacLeod knows that the fact that there is very little hydrogen railway vehicle is being developed is part of a bigdrogen infrastructure in Australia is an “obviously large
hurdle” that needs to be overcome in order for car makers ger objective to gradually replace the country’s diesel railto logically introduce this eco-friendly technology, partic- way trains. The project comes from the Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure and Transport.
ularly ahead of impending carbon emission regulations.
What those who test out the Mirai fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) will discover is that hydrogen fuel cars drive
very similar to a traditional gas-powered car. The majordifference, of course, is that is uses a different fuel source,which emits nothing but water vapor from the tailpipe.
Furthermore, the car makes very little noise.
MacLeod feels that the loan program is the beginning ofgetting people interested in the technology.

The hybrid train that is being developed is based on a hydrogen fuel cell.
The hydrogen railway train will be a hybrid vehicle that is
powered by hydrogen fuel cells. It will be capable of travelling at a maximum speed of 110 km (68.4 miles) per
hour and travel more than 600 km (372.8 miles) on a single refueling.

The plan is to finish the development of the hydrogen fuel“That’s where the Mirai FCEV loan program is a step in the cell hybrid power system, power conversion system for
railway cars, hydrogen refueling station construction plansright direction because these zero-emission vehicles are
and railway technology technical standard by the end ofbeing used by real people in real world situations,” hethis year, reports FuelCellsWorks.
said.
In addition to Toyota’s loan program, another brand thatis pushing its hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is Hyundai, which
reportedly plans to supply 20 examples of its NEXO to the
A.C.T. Government this year.

What’s more, Korea Railroad Research Institute plans tofinish the verification of the stability and efficiency of therailway test line by 2022. The total investment in the project is 25 billion Won ($22.2 million).

Source: https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/toyota-tohelp-encourage-australians-to-drive-hydrogen-fuel-cellvehicles/8536982/

Hydrogen railway trains could help combat South Korea’s
diesel train pollution.
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their carbon emissions are lower than electric cars. Additionally, it is possible to lower the cost of maintaining andconstructing the electric power infrastructure in the country by eliminating electric cable lines, substations and other power supply facilities required to maintain electric
power infrastructure.
Diesel trains are seen as one of the major pollutants producing carbon and fine dust in South Korea’s railway sector. Back in May of last year (2018), the nation introduced
new air pollutant emission standards with which all new
introduced diesel rail vehicles must comply.
The goal of the project is to replace current diesel railway
vehicles in the nation, efficiently and over time.
South Korea isn’t the only nation looking into replacing
diesel trains with hydrogen railway vehicles. As Hydrogen
Fuel News reported back in January, the UK is also considering adding hydrogen trains to some of its rail lines.
Source: https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/hydrogenrailway-train-under-development-in-southkorea/8536972/

Germany installs the most public H2 fuel stations in 2018, worldwide

to this type of hydrogen infrastructure, in 2018.
Japan continues to lead the world in terms of having themost hydrogen (H2) fuel stations.
Germany currently has 60 public H2 fuel stations, making
it the second country in the world with the most hydrogenstations. However, the leader of these alternative refuelingstations is Japan, which presently has a total of 96 publicly
accessible H2 stations, after nine (9) more locations wereadded in 2018. These facts are according to the results of
the 11th annual evaluation of H2stations.org, a website of
the German Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik and TÜV
Süd, reports Electrive.com
Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik also notes that the US saw
10 new hydrogen refueling stations become operationallast year, including six (6) in California, alone. This brings
the total number of publicly accessible H2 stations in the
US to 42, placing it third behind Germany.
Germany has plans for 38 more H2 fuel stations.
At present there are a total of 152 hydrogen refueling stations in Europe, 136 in Asia and 78 in North America.
However, not all of these stations are publicly accessible.
Only 223 of the world’s total 369 refueling stations are
public, while the rest are reserved for closed user groups.
Germany reportedly has plans for an additional 38 stations, 34 of which will be developed under the auspices ofthe H2 Mobility Germany industrial initiative. According to
the initiative’s website, four of these future stations haveentered the planning phase, 10 are in the approval phase,
11 are in the execution phase, while the remaining nine (9)stations are in the commissioning and trial phase, reports
Electrive.com

The European country now has 60 publicly accessible hydrogen refueling stations.
Last year, a total of 48 publicly accessible H2 fuel stations
were launched into operation around the globe. Seventeen (17) of these stations were launched in Germany,making it the country to see the largest growth in regard

Beyond government initiatives, which are helping to support the growth of hydrogen infrastructure in many countries around the world, businesses are also getting involved and are helping to drive hydrogen evolution andthe building of more H2 fuel stations. Among these businesses include Hyundai, Toyota and Nikola Motor.
Source: https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/germanyinstalls-the-most-public-h2-fuel-stations-in-2018worldwide/8536954/

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New clean hydrogen production method
developed by Belgian bioscience experts
Hydrogen gas can be produced using a new type of solar
panel.
A new solar panel has been developed by bioscience experts in Belgium that can produce clean hydrogen frommoisture in the air. Even more impressive, the renewable
method can generate significant quantities of hydrogengas, up to 250 liters per day.
The new technology is suitable for localized, on-site generation.
This clean hydrogen production method is not the firsttime hydrogen has been produced from a renewable
power source or solar energy. However, the innovative
solar panel’s compact size (measuring 1.6m2), combinedwith its operational efficiency, makes it ideal for localized
on-site generation.

energy required to operate a heat absorber/collector thatis directly connected to a reversible water sorption material is provided by light transmitted through the PV cells.
Water releases from the material before it is diffusedthrough an ion exchange material. Throughout operation,water is oxidized at the anode and oxygen is released inair. At the same time, hydrogen is produced and collected
at the cathode. During the night, cool, humid air circulates
through the device and the reversible water sorption material is able to replenish.
This green hydrogen technology is still in its early stages
and field trials will be the next step to test to see how it
performs in the real world. That being said, the researchers are hopeful that it could help to accelerate a clean hydrogen economy.
One of the reasons is that due to the inventions compact
design and efficiency, it can be easily transported
and used onsite, helping to overcome one of the majorhydrogen fuel vehicle barriers of expensive refueling infrastructure. Additionally, this clean hydrogen energy also
shows potential for being used to provide clean and renewable power to fuel national gas grids.

This technology has taken over a decade to develop, according to the bioscience experts from the Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, who invented the device.
The sustainable technology the scientists developed inSource: https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/new-cleanvolves the use of an electrolysis system that has been
paired with an efficient atmospheric water absorption sys- hydrogen-production-method-developed-by-belgianbioscience-experts/8537096/
tem, which produces hydrogen from moisture in the air.

A significant amount of solar energy is needed to split the Taranaki unveils hydrogen roadmap
water molecules to produce hydrogen gas. When this proA region in New Zealand has unveiled a roadmap to beject was first attempted years ago, the yield was only
slightly over 0.1%, but with refinements of the technology, come a global leader in hydrogen production and utilization.
this has increased to 15%.
This clean hydrogen technology could benefit fuel cell ve- The country is moving into a low-emissions future thatwill substantially alter its current energy ecosystem.
hicles as well as fuel national gas grids.
For this particular hydrogen production method to work,
an assembly of standard photovoltaic (PV) cells and apiece of apparatus with two compartments is required. To
maintain a satisfactory level of hydration, a well-designed
temperature and hydration management system is utilized.
Throughout the day, solar cells deliver the required voltage to cause the water molecules to react and split. The

The New Zealand Government has set national targets ofa 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
compared with 2005 levels, 100% renewable electricity by
2035 and net zero emissions by 2050.
In order to achieve these targets, Taranaki has released aroadmap which positions hydrogen as the fuel of the future and looks at the potential for the region to leverage
its existing skills and infrastructure.

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According to the ‘H2 Taranaki Roadmap’, released on Friday, the region has a unique collection of strengths that
position it as the major player in the New Zealand hydrogen opportunity.

and regional relationships and create the basis for future export developments
Studies and trials for hydrogen injection into the gas
grid, including 100% hydrogen scenarios

Some of these strengths include: significant water, windand solar resources; supporting service industry including  Investigation of carbon capture and storage using the
Taranaki gas fields together with carbon capture utilipipeline integrity and very high pressure test facilities; alzation options, including synthesis of fuels and indusready home to large producers and users of hydrogen;trial chemicals
hydrogen infrastructure design and engineering expertise;and local and regional government support.
 Exploration of opportunities to use hydrogen-based
fuels in peaker electricity generation plants
Developed by Hiringa Energy with support from Venture
Taranaki, New Plymouth District Council and the New
Zealand Government’s provincial growth fund, theroadmap outlines a series of projects that together withleveraging the existing heavy energy industry skills andinfrastructure in the region, will help seed the establishment of a low-emissions hydrogen sector.

The report’s author, Andrew Clennett of Taranaki-based
Hiringa Energy, is enthusiastic about the potential hydrogen could have in transitioning the regional economy.
“Taranaki is very fortunate with its natural resources, infrastructure, and the forward thinking and the leadershipshown by our regional officials and industry,” he says.

The opportunities have the potential to become multibillion-dollar development projects, create significant em“Hiringa is enjoying working with progressive partners toployment opportunities, and generate billions of dollars indevelop a number of exciting projects that will help fudomestic and export revenue, the roadmap explains.
ture-proof jobs in the region while contributing to New
Zealand’s future energy needs.”
At its heart and to start the journey, a critical mass ofnear-term public and private sector projects are proposed“We are facing many challenges with the energy transition
to create the ecosystem and establish a hydrogen industry
ahead, requiring the community, businesses, regions andin New Zealand, including:government to continue to work together. It is importantthat we act now to create and capture the opportunities
 Establishment of a New Plymouth refueling stationand out-of-region connecting hubs, to service buses, this transition offers, ensuring we leave a positive legacy
trucks, light commercial, waste and contractor special- for our children.”ized vehicles






Development of a green ammonia project at Kapuni,
establishing hydrogen production to support thegrowth of hydrogen transport and provide the foundation for transition to a low-emissions chemical industry
Implementation of hydrogen into a stationary energy
application within regional infrastructure such as oneof the region’s aquatic centers, council buildings or
district health facilities, providing combined heat andpower, energy storage and resilience
Deployment of near-term projects with Japanese andother international partners that enhance business

Source: https://www.gasworld.com/taranaki-unveilshydrogen-roadmap/2016837.article

U.S. Gulf Coast refiners increasingly buyinghydrogen
United States Gulf Coast refiners have increased hydrogenpurchases for their hydrocrackers to reduce levels of thehighly pollutant sulfur and are likely to continue to buy
more as the need for cleaner fuel rises.
"As global demand for distillate fuel oil has increased andsulfur content regulations have become more stringent,refineries have needed to use more hydrogen," the Energy
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last month.
Sulfur comes invarying
proportions
with all typesof crude oil,with gradesthat have ahigh proportion called 'sour,' as opposed to those with less sulfur
called 'sweet.' Unless refineries process the sulfur, once
burned, it becomes sulfur dioxide, a precursor to acidrain, according to the EIA.

drogen to treat sour crude oil and products, with use rising 13 percent from 2012 to 2017, the EIA said. The U.S.
Midwest is home to refineries that process sour Canadiancrude oil.
Source:https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/03/18/US-GulfCoast-refiners-increasingly-buyinghydrogen/7701552911373/

New fuel cell could help fix the renewableenergy storage problem

Hydrogen demand will rise very soon because shippers
will now need to conform to new sulfur contents in marine fuels that will take effect at the start of next year, theEIA said.
Fuel used in shipping currently has to have no more than
3.5 percent sulfur, but starting next year the sulfur emissions need to be capped at 0.5 percent. Ships conventionally run on fuel oil and diesel.
Pollution legislation at sea is catching up with that onland, as regulations against emissions near cities and ininland areas has limited sulfur content in fuels for over a
decade. Unlike pollution near cities, emissions by ships inhigh seas occurs in areas outside of national jurisdictions.

If we want a shot at transitioning to renewable energy,
we’ll need one crucial thing: technologies that can convert
electricity from wind and sun into a chemical fuel for storage and vice versa. Commercial devices that do this exist,
but most are costly and perform only half of the equation.
Now, researchers have created lab-scale gadgets that do
Hydrogen is used to process sour crude, which often com- both jobs. If larger versions work as well, they would help
mands lower prices precisely because of the need to pro- make it possible—or at least more affordable—to run thecess the sulfur with hydrogen, or mix it with a "sweeter"world on renewables.
crude so that the resulting blend is not as sour.
The market for such technologies has grown along with
Refineries can produce hydrogen "through steam reform- renewables: In 2007, solar and wind provided just 0.8% of
ing of natural gas or by purchasing it" from third parties. all power in the United States; in 2017, that number was
8%, according to the U.S. Energy Information AdministraThe trend for most of this decade has been for increases
tion. But the demand for electricity often doesn’t match
both in demand of hydrogen as well as in purchases from the supply from solar and wind. In sunny California, forthird parties, the EIA said.
example, solar panels regularly produce more power thanneeded in the middle of the day, but none at night, after
The delivery is made through a 600-mile network of hymost workers and students return home.
drogen pipelines running from Louisiana to Houston, withconnections to refineries.
Some utilities are beginning to install massive banks of
In addition to the U.S. Gulf Coast, other areas of the U.S.,
such as the Midwest, have increased capacity to use hy-

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only enough energy to back up the grid for a few hours at
most. Another option is to store the energy by converting
it into hydrogen fuel. Devices called electrolyzers do thisby using electricity—ideally from solar and wind power—
to split water into oxygen and hydrogen gas, a carbonfree fuel. A second set of devices called fuel cells can thenconvert that hydrogen back to electricity to power cars,
trucks, and buses, or to feed it to the grid.
But commercial electrolyzers and fuel cells use different
catalysts to speed up the two reactions, meaning a single
device can’t do both jobs. To get around this, researchers
have been experimenting with a newer type of fuel cell,
called a proton conducting fuel cell (PCFC), which canmake fuel or convert it back into electricity using just one
set of catalysts.

When both teams run their setups in reverse, the fuelelectrode splits H2 molecules into protons and electrons.
The electrons travel through an external wire to the air
electrode—providing electricity to power devices. Whenthey reach the electrode, they combine with oxygen fromthe air and protons that crossed back over the membrane
to produce water.
The O’Hayre group’s latest work is “impressive,” Haile
says. “The electricity you are putting in is making H2 andnot heating up your system. They did a really good job
with that.” Still, she cautions, both her new device and theone from the O’Hayre lab are small laboratory demonstrations. For the technology to have a societal impact, researchers will need to scale up the button-size devices, a
process that typically reduces performance. If engineers
can make that happen, the cost of storing renewable energy could drop precipitously, helping utilities do awaywith their dependence on fossil fuels.

PCFCs consist of two electrodes separated by a membrane that allows protons across. At the first electrode,
known as the air electrode, steam and electricity are fed
into a ceramic catalyst, which splits the steam’s water mol- Source: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/newecules into positively charged hydrogen ions (protons),
fuel-cell-could-help-fix-renewable-energy-storageelectrons, and oxygen molecules. The electrons travel
problemthrough an external wire to the second electrode—thefuel electrode—where they meet up with the protons that HyperSolar reports breakthrough with its
crossed through the membrane. There, a nickel-based
first-gen renewable hydrogen generator
catalyst stitches them together to make hydrogen gas(H2). In previous PCFCs, the nickel catalysts performed
The California-based renewable hydrogen production
well, but the ceramic catalysts were inefficient, using less company has confirmed stable production from its generthan 70% of the electricity to split the water molecules.
ator.
Much of the energy was lost as heat.
HyperSolar has announced in a company press reNow, two research teams have made key strides in imlease that its stability test of its first-generation renewableproving this efficiency. They both focused on making im- hydrogen generator has reached 566 hours of continuous
provements to the air electrode, because the nickel-based stable hydrogen production, breaking the company’s own
fuel electrode did a good enough job. In January, rerecord for wireless self-contained solar hydrogen device.
searchers led by chemist Sossina Haile at Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois, reported in Energy & Envi- The breakthrough technology produces green hydrogenronmental Science that they came up with a fuel electrode using sunlight and any water source.
made from a ceramic alloy containing six elements
The company’s proprietary, fully-integrated hydrogenthat harnessed 76% of its electricity to split water moleproduction device uses improved coating and catalyst
cules. And in today’s issue of Nature Energy, Ryan
technology with no solar cell degradation. Its design will
O’Hayre, a chemist at the Colorado School of Mines inreportedly serve as the foundation of HyperSolar’s firstGolden, reports that his team has done one better. Theirgeneration commercial renewable hydrogen generator.
ceramic alloy electrode, made up of five elements, harnesses as much as 98% of the energy it’s fed toPrior to this most recent announcement, HyperSolar presplit water.
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passing 500 hours on February 5, 2019. The same device
from this previous report was further tested by the research team at the University of Iowa and revealed a stable production of hydrogen for 566 hours, breaking its
own record, which is also believed to be the new international record for a wireless self-contained solar hydrogendevice.

gen gas on site, allowing families to heat their homes
without expanding their carbon footprints.
A team at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, or KU Leuven, says it has developed a solar panel that converts sunlight directly into hydrogen using moisture in the air. The
prototype takes the water vapor and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen molecules. If it scales successfully, thetechnology could help address a major challenge facing
the hydrogen economy.

After 566 hours, the device began to show a notable reduction of the produced hydrogen. However, in spite ofthis degradation, the solar cell itself was not degraded. It
was protected by the adjustments made to the coatings in Hydrogen, unlike fossil fuels, doesn’t produce greenhousegas emissions or air pollution when used in fuel-cellthe lab.
powered vehicles or buildings. Yet nearly all hydrogenproduced today is made using an industrial process that
HyperSolar is now working on a process to improve theinvolves natural gas, and this ultimately pumps more
renewable hydrogen generator’s lifetime.
emissions into the atmosphere.
“Our team has identified the cause for performance degA small but growing number of facilities are producing
radation this time to be the manual coating and catalyst“green” hydrogen using electrolysis, which splits water
integration step performed in the lab. The company isworking with contract manufacturers to employ an auto- molecules using electricity—ideally from renewablesources such as wind and solar. Other researchers, includmated process to overcome this limitation and improve
ing the team in Belgium, are developing what’s called didevice lifetime,” said Tim Young, HyperSolar CEO, in therect solar water-splitting technologies. These use chemicalPR.
and biological components to split water directly on the
The company has been working hard to fine tune its pro- solar panel, forgoing the need for large, expensive eleccess to ensure the solar cell of their device is well protect- trolysis plants.
ed from the corrosion under water. Employing commercial“Finding a way to create hydrogen in some easier or moremanufacturing processes for better and advanced coatefficient way is maybe a Holy Grail quest,” says Jim Fening and integration technology will further prolong the
lifetime of the renewable hydrogen generator, putting Hy- ton, who directs the Florida Solar Energy Center at the
perSolar one step closer to reaching its 1000-hour goal of University of Central Florida.
stable operation. Reaching this goal would bring the deKU Leuven sits on a grassy campus in Flanders, the Dutchvice closer to one year of stable operation, making the
speaking northern region of Belgium. Earlier this month,cost of the hydrogen more economical and competitive.
professor Johan Martens and his team at the Centre for
Surface Chemistry and Catalysis announced their protoSource: http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/hypersolartype could produce 250 liters of hydrogen per day on avreports-breakthrough-with-its-first-gen-renewableerage over a full year, which they claim is a world record.
hydrogen-generator/8537007/
A family living in a well-insulated Belgian house could use
Solar panel splits water to produce hydrogen about 20 of these panels to meet their power and heatingneeds during an entire year, they predict.
A research team in Belgium says its prototype panel can
The solar panel measures 1.65 meters long—roughly the
produce 250 liters of hydrogen gas per dayheight of a kitchen refrigerator, or this reporter—and has
Solar panels are multiplying on rooftops and in gardens
a rated power output of about 210 watts. The system canworldwide as communities clamor for renewable electrici- convert 15 percent of the solar energy it receives into hyty. But engineers in Belgium say the panels could do more drogen, the team says. That’s a significant leap from 0.1
than keep the lights on—they could also produce hydro- percent efficiency they first achieved 10 years ago.

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achieved 19 percent efficiency in producing hydrogenfrom direct solar water splitting.)
However, Martens’s lab was tight-lipped about
its technology. Tom Bosserez, a post-doctoral researcher,declined to disclose any specifics, citing intellectual property concerns. He says only that the lab specializes in“catalysts, membranes, and adsorbents.”

particularly in the United States—existing heating fuelssuch as natural gas are relatively cheap. However, as
countries work to address climate change, and as morecommunities install local renewable energy infrastructure
like rooftop solar, he sees a potential role for these hydrogen systems.
“If the application works out, it might lend itself very nicely to generating hydrogen that I could store and use forthe heating of my house, for cooking, maybe run it in myfuel-cell car,” Fenton says. “It’s these futuristic kinds of opportunities. But it’s still something we need to preparefor.”“Using our expertise in this area, we were able to develop
a system that is very efficient in taking water from the airand splitting it into hydrogen by using solar energy,”
Bosserez wrote in an email. Asked about some of the engineering challenges they faced during a decade of devel- Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/greenopment, he says, “The most difficult part is getting thetech/fuel-cells/solar-panel-prototype-splits-water-towater out of the air.”produce-hydrogen

Academic papers offer scattered clues about the technol- New Brunswick Power, Florida developer partogy, though Bosserez says their research “goes beyond
ner to build first hydrogen-powered electricwhat we publish.” In recent years, the engineers havestudied the efficacy of a variety of materials, including po- gridrous, multi-junction silicon solar cells with “micrometerHydrogen fuel has been an elusive source of electric genscale pore dimensions”; thin-film catalysts made frommanganese (III) oxide; and a poly (vinyl alcohol) anion ex- eration in the power sector.
change membrane involving a potassium hydroxide soluWhile the generation itself is emissions-free, environmention and nickel-based catalysts.
talists have noted the amount of power needed to separate hydrogen from water can take up more energy thanMartens says generally that his team is using “cheap raw
materials” in lieu of precious metals and other expensive the power actually supplied by the product. Cost has also
components. “We wanted to design something sustaina- traditionally been an issue, often limiting hydrogen power
to "niche" sectors such as heat generation, according to
ble that is affordable and can be used practically anywhere,” he told VRT, a public broadcasting network in Bel- Kennedy.
gium.

But the potential advantages of the technology are vast,
Researchers plan to field test their prototype at a house in and the technology will operate on the grid as long duration energy storage to be available during peak perithe rural town of Oud-Heverlee. Hydrogen would be
stored in a small, underground pressure vessel during the ods, according to Kennedy.
summer months, then pumped throughout the house
A new report from Nature Energy predicts that hydrogenduring the winter. If all goes according to plan, Martens
fueled power will soon be cost competitive in the U.S. andsays the team could install 20 panels at the house, orGerman power markets, and recommends policy incenbuild a larger neighborhood system to allow other famitives such as investment tax credits, which have been eflies to use the “green” hydrogen.
fective in cutting down the prices of other clean energy
Fenton, of the Florida Solar Energy Center, says it’s far too resources, such as wind and solar.
early to determine whether or when hydrogen-producing
That may become a reality if technologies such as
solar panels could become economically viable. The techJoi Scientific's are able to keep customer costs down. NB
nology is still in the very early development stage, and—Power and the developer "believe there is commercial via-

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bility that could be a plus" for ratepayers, though it's
2020 Olympic Games to use hydrogen fuel to"impossible to say at this point" how customer bills will belight cauldrons, torch during relay
impacted by the change, NB Power spokesperson Marc
Belliveau told Utility Dive.
The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic andParalympic Games is planning to use the next-generation
The utility, which is the primary electricity provider forenergy of hydrogen fuel to light the flames of the caulCanada's eastern province New Brunswick, has a goal ofdrons and torch relay. If realized, the 2020 Games would
generating 40% of its electric power from renewable rebe the first Olympics to use the alternative energy source
sources by 2020, and Kennedy says the ultimate objective
for this purpose.
is to make NB Power an "emissions-free utility."
Hydrogen produced at a state-of-the-art plant under conIts current generation portfolio includes wind, hydro, oil,struction in Fukushima Prefecture, which was devastateddiesel and coal-fired generation, and Kennedy said he enby the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, will
visions the partnership as a way to eliminate the utility's
be used, the sources said. The Athletes’ Village also will
oil peakers and coal while keeping rates the same.
use hydrogen fuel as a power source.
Patents on the technology are still being written so Kennedy did not want to address the ratio of energy consumed versus produced by the technology, but noted thetwo companies were "satisfied" with the technology andthe issue of conversion loss was something that had beenaddressed in their research and development.

The organizing committee intends to showcase Japan’s
advanced technology with hydrogen and reconstruction
as themes during the event.
According to sources connected to the organizing committee, the committee is discussing using the hydrogenfuel for the torch at the start of the relay in Fukushima
Prefecture.

The announcement follows a 2016 agreement between
the utility and the developer, giving NB Power authority todevelop and sell "hydrogen-fueled generation" to otherHydrogen fuel will also be used as the final torchbearer
utilities.
lights the cauldron at the new national stadium in Tokyo,"Our goal is to help New Brunswick have all the tools theyneed" to go zero-emissions, said Kennedy, adding thatthe partnership will allow them to deliver the technology
to other utilities across Atlantic Canada and eventually
across other parts of North America, Asia and Europe.
NB Power "understands the space and utilities and themarkets," said Kennedy and are an ideal partner "to goout into the wider world hand in hand" with.

another cauldron in the Daiba area of Tokyo and to lightthe Olympic flame during the Games after the opening
ceremony.
The Tokyo organizing committee is also considering hydrogen fuel for the ceremonial torch lighting in Greece.
As hydrogen fuel does not emit carbon dioxide at thetime of combustion and is a seemingly inexhaustible energy source on Earth, it is called the “ultimate clean energy.”
Easier to transport and store compared to electricity, it isexpected to be a new energy source for Japan,.

"The goal for all utilities is to generate power with lesscarbon or no carbon and we are working on the products
and tools to transition to more reliable systems and sysThe flame from burning hydrogen fuel is colorless, buttems that are not contributing to climate change," he said. with additive agents, various hues can be created, such as

red, purple and green.
Canada intends to reduce its country's emissions 56% below 2003 levels by 2030.
A senior official of the organizing committee said that atorch displaying various colors “would expand the theatriSource: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/new-brunswickcal effect for the opening ceremony and torch relay.”
power-florida-developer-partner-to-build-first-hydrogenpowe/549382/

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By using hydrogen fuel from Fukushima Prefecture, thecommittee intends to spread the news to the global community about the region’s recovery since the 2011 disaster.

saw in the last 20 years, we are interested because wethink we like what we see in the next 20 years…where webelieve by optimizing and trading we can make better returns than the industry has done so far.”

Additionally, the Tokyo metropolitan government plans touse hydrogen fuel cells to cover part of the electricity
needs for accommodations in the Athletes’ Village in
Chuo Ward, Tokyo, the sources said.

As well as power trading, Wetselaar said the company will
invest in generation from renewable sources, including
solar and wind at industrial- and domestic-scale; hydrogen fuels; electric vehicle charging; and home battery
storage. It has no plans to enter the transmission portionof the supply chain or generation from coal or nuclear. It
will also consider building gas plants to help balance intermittent supplies from its renewables.

A senior official of the Tokyo government said, “We wantto make the Athletes’ Village a showcase for a nextgeneration ‘hydrogen town.’”
Source:https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/02/28/news/2020olympic-games-to-use-hydrogen-fuel-to-light-cauldronstorch-during-relay/

Shell plans to become world’s largest power
firm
Shell is set to become one of thelargest powercompanies in theworld, its Directorof New Energies
has said, as its
emissions target
forces the company to evolveaway from oil andgas.

To help meet these ambitions, he said the company plansto spend US$1bn–2bn/y on its new energy technologies.
While this is dwarfed by the group’s total US$25bn/ybudget for capital expenditure, he said that the plan will
be to prove it can make between 8–12% returns in power
before scaling up investment.
“Electrification is the biggest trend in energy in the coming 10–15 years because it is by far the easiest way to decarbonize energy usage. So, we think the power market
will grow a lot, faster than any of the other energy markets,” he told Bloomberg.

Shell’s new energies business has invested in projects
throughout the power supply chain. Last year it took
stakes in wind farms being developed off the US andNetherlands, and last week it opened a 27 MW solar project to provide power for its Moerdijk chemical plant in
the Netherlands. On transport, it is part of joint venturethat is installing hydrogen fueling pumps at 100 locations
across Germany; and in January entered the US electric
Speaking to Bloomberg on the sidelines of an energy con- vehicle charging market with its purchase of Greenlots. On
the domestic front it purchased UK household energy
ference in the US last week, Maarten Wetselaar, Shell’s
Integrated Gas and New Energies Director, said: “We be- provider First Utility in February 2018; and last monthbought German home energy storage battery technology
lieve we can be the largest electricity power company infirm sonnen.
the world in the early 2030s.” And to Financial Times hesaid that for Shell to achieve the goal it set in December to cut emissions by 20% by 2035 “the amount of pow- Source:
er – of clean power – we will need to be selling…will make https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/shell-plansto-becomes-world-s-largest-power-firm/
us by far the biggest power company in the world.”
Asked how shareholders might respond to the lower returns from power compared to oil and gas, he said: “We
are not interested in the power sector because of what we

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International Journal of Hydrogen
Energy Highlights
Most Cited IJHE Articles (in 2019)
1. Ni supported on CaO-MgO-A203 as a highly selective and stable catalyst for H2
production via the glycerol steam reforming reaction
Charisiou N, Papageridis K, Tzounis L, Sebastian V, Hinder S, Baker M, Alketbi M,
Polychronopoulou K, Goula M. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2019;():256-273
2. Facile synthesis of carbon encapsulated RuO2 nanorods for supercapacitor andelectrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction
Edison T, Atchudan R, Lee Y. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2019;44(4):2323-2329
3. The hydrogen storage properties and catalytic mechanism of the CuFe2 04 -doped
MgH2 composite system
The International Journal of HyJebakumar Immanuel Ediston T, Atchudan R, Lee Y, Int J Hydrogen Energy 2019;
drogen Energy aims to provide a():2323-2329
central vehicle for the exchange
4. Syngas production from dry methane reforming over yttrium-promoted nickel-KIT
and dissemination of new ideas,-6 catalysts
technology developments andSwirk K, Galvez M, Motak M, Grzybek T, Ronning M, Costa P. Int J Hydrogen Energy
research results in the field of
2019;():274-286
Hydrogen Energy between sci5. Experimental studies on the explosion indices in turbulent stoichiometric H2/CH4/
entists and engineers throughout the world. The emphasis is
air mixtures
placed on original research, both
Sun Z. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2019;():469-476
analytical and experimental, cov- 6. A decade of ceria based solar thermochemical H20/CO2 splitting cycle
ering all aspects of Hydrogen
Bhosale R, Takalkar G, Sutar P, Kumar A, AlMomani F, Khraisheh M. Int J Hydrogen
Energy, including production,
Energy 2019;():34-60
storage, transmission, utilization,
enabling technologies, environMost Downloaded IJHE Articles (February-April
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international aspects of hydrogen and hydrogen carriers such
1. Future cost and performance of water electrolysis: An expert elicitation study
as NH3, CH4, alcohols, etc.

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.

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Schmidt O, Gambhir A, Staffell I, Hawkes A, Nelson J, Few S. Int J Hydrogen Energy
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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
A comprehensive review on PEM water electrolysis
Carmo M, Fritz D, Mergel J, Stolten D. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2013;38(12):4901-4934
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
Developments of electric cars and fuel cell hydrogen electric cars
Wilberforce T, El-Hassan Z, Khatib F, Makky A, Baroutaji A, Carton J, Olabi A. Int J
Hydrogen Energy 2017;42(40):25695-25734
Systematic analysis of biomass derived for fuel cells
Archer, S., Steinberger-Wilckens R. Int J Hydrogen Energy 2018; 43(52)23178-23192
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Energy Highlights of Recent Publications
Systematic Analysis of biomass derived fuels for fuel cells

S. A. Archer, R. Steinberger-Wilkens. J Hydrogen Energy 2018: 43(52): 23178-23192.

With increasing demand worldwide for use and proliferation of fuels that are non fossil-based, alternatives are in demand with the purpose of minimizing environmental impact. The focus of this paper is renewable energy from
biological feedstock and wastes. This paper presents an analysis of the current methods of biomass conversion, to
extract biofuels and biologically produced gases to then be used in fuel cells.
This study focuses on various biomass (waste) streams and investigates the sustainable potential of these biomass
pathways for production of fuel gases for fuel cells. It assesses production efficiencies, upgrading/reforming, and added value products. Agriculture can provide sources for biogas production from energy crops or wastes, using anaerobic digesters.
The growing interest in biomass use for energy supply has resulted in the development of many conversion techniques to produce biofuels: biological (fermentation, anaerobic digestion, and metabolic processing), thermo-chemical(gasification and supercritical water gasification (SCWG) for gas production, and pyrolysis and subsequent liquefaction
for liquid fuels), and extraction of carbohydrates, lipids, and hydrocarbons, e.g. for alcohol and biodiesel
production.
This study compares the different biomass conversion systems and the fuels they produce and combines them withdifferent fuel cell applications. Key findings of this study include the insight that even pathways with low efficiency andhigh fuel gas demands have the potential to be more sustainable. This is due to higher yielding biomass feedstock,compared to pathways with higher efficiency, low fuel gas demands, and higher feedstock demands. SOFCs proved to
be a more favorable technology than PEFCs, due to their wide range of fuel choices and higher efficiency.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319918333949-By Michael Daugherty

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Energy Highlights of Recent Publications
The development of a through-plane reactive excitation technique for detection of pinholes in membrane-containing
MEA sub-assemblies
Ulsh, M., A. DeBari, J. M. Berliner, I. V. Zenyuk, P. Rupnowski, L. Matvichuk, A. Z. Weber and G. Bender. Int J Hydrogen Energy
2109 44(16): 8533-8547

The global fuel cell market was valued at USD 3.21 billion in 2016 and is still growing. As the markets for polymerelectrolyte-membrane fuel cells expand, there continues to be a need for the development of in-line quality inspection
techniques for high-volume manufacturing methods for components. Such techniques introduce real-time identification of process-induced irregularities during manufacturing, thereby mitigating the impact of poor quality of various
components like membrane-electrode assemblies (MEAs). A particular type of irregularity known to impact MEA lifetime is loss of membrane integrity, due to formation of pinholes.
In the recent article by Ulsh, M. et al, (Ulsh, DeBari et al. 2019), they focus on the development of such a technique todetect pinholes in MEA sub-assemblies using a reactive excitation strategy coupled with infrared thermography. A
specialized device was introduced and, using various MEA sub-assemblies, validate the detection of pinholes in stationary samples. A Multi-physics model was also utilized to understand and predict the impact of various design andoperational parameters of this technique. Both their simulation and in-situ experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the technique.
Given the breadth of different MEA fabrication approaches that are being pursued across the industry, a techniquethat can detect the loss of membrane integrity but is agnostic to the particular order or manner of construction of the
MEA is of great importance. Put into context, the technique developed by the team, was able to detect (≥1 °C) thermal
response for a membrane pinhole of approximately 90 μm in diameter is measured in a fraction of a second. This isproves the immense potential this technique holds in reducing manufacturing costs for mass scale production in thefuel cell industry.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319918341855?via%3Dihub-By Anirban Roy

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From the Bookshelf
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Second Edition
Authors: Mark E. Orazem and Bernard Tribollet
This book by Orazem and Tribollet, part of Wiley's Electrochemical Society Series, emphasizes
generally applicable fundamentals rather than providing a detailed treatment of applications. As areader one can expect to find discussions of specific applications among the references at the endof the book. It is intended as both a reference source and a textbook for training new scientists
and engineers.
The authors present the subject in a manner that facilitates the sequential development of understanding and expertise, either in a formal course or in self‐study. Throughout the book, illustrative
examples in the form of questions followed by answers demonstrate how the principles that havebeen described can be applied to problems. In this way the audience can try to solve the problems before reading the answers. Important equations and relationships are identified and collected in easily accessible tables.
Most notably, an easily recognized icon—an elephant—appears frequently at the bottom of apage where a critical concept is first mentioned, to emphasis its importance. The elephant also
serves to remind the reader of the parable of the blind wise men and the elephant, which is quoted in the introductory section toemphasize the philosophy that impedance spectroscopy cannot be used as a stand‐alone technique.
Finally, the closing chapter of the book, gives a philosophy for EIS that integrates experimental observation, model development,
and error analysis. The authors' approach differs from the usual sequential approach to developing models for given impedance
spectra by emphasizing the advantages of obtaining supporting observations to guide model selection, the use of error analysis toguide regression strategies and experimental design, and the use of models to guide selection of new experiments. They illustrate
this approach by citing examples from the scientific literature. This final chapter of the book illustrates that selection of models,even those based on physical principles, requires both error analysis and additional experimental verification.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119363682

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EDITOR
Wilson K.S. Chiu, PhD

University of Connecticut, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Jacob R. Bowen, PhD
Technical University of Denmark,Denmark
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Colorado School of Mines, USA
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KIST, South Korea
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University of South Carolina, USA
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Curtin University, Australia
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Purdue University, USA
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University of South Carolina, USA
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Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the organizing committee of the 17th International Conference on Clean Energy (ICCE-2019), we are happy
to announce the ICCE-2019 to be held in Shenyang Jianzhu University (SJZU), China, from 9 to 12 August 2019.
The conference theme, “Clean energy, Clean world”, means that clean energy will reward us a blue sky and change ourworld. The cleaner production will make a better use of energy resources and reduce the production and emission of contaminant so that it is an important procedure to realize sustainable development.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 May 2019
Conference Date: 9-12 August 2019Mark your calendar, and present your results and experiences via poster or oral presentation to this international conference. We hope by this conference you will gain new knowledge, make new friends, and enjoy splendid summer days inthe beautiful city of Northeast China. High quality papers presented at this conference will be recommended for publication in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE) after further review.
Papers are solicited from all relevant areas, from new concepts, theories, modeling and simulation to experiments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:(1). Hydrogen energy(2). Solar energy(3). Nuclear energy(4). Wind energy(5). Hydropower, ocean energy and geothermal energy(6). Fuel cell
(7). Energy storage(8). Energy conversion(9). Biomass and biofuels(10). Clean fossil fuels(11). Waste-to-energy(12). Intelligent grids(13). Energy economy, management and policy(14). Buildings energy efficiency (15). Energy engineering and environmental protection(16). Green manufacturing and machine saving energy
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The 9th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards ISFEH9 (www.isfeh9.org) will be held in
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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
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
A Special Issue on“New Aspects in Catalysts/Electrocatalysts/Photocatalysts and their Applications”
The supply of increasing energy demands a massive exploration of research todevelop new and renewable sources. Nowadays, micro/nano scale materials are needed forsolving the environmental and energy problems. Materials for energy and environment
produce clean and efficient sources of energy to address our present energy related concernsand steer society to a more sustainable future. Smart and functional nanomaterials, due totheir unique characteristics and excellent performances, are demanded in the area of green
energy and renewable energy sources. The multi-dimensional nanostructured materials
exhibit a high specific surface area and more exposed active surface sites which effectively
pose several innovative physico-chemical properties that considerably facilitate theirchemical and electrochemical activities. The main aim of special issue is to highlight the
recent advances in research and to provide a platform for the designing, synthesis,characterizations and the applications of novel multifunctional nanomaterials in hydrogenenergy and related energy. Area of interest includes the Reviews/Research
Articles/Communications/Letters to Editors on the following topics but is not limited to:
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Topics:Fuel cells and hydrogen technologies ● Energy conversion materials and devices ● Molecular energy storage materials ●Organic and perovskite solar cells ● Graphene and fullerenes ● Organic LEDs and other display materials ● Hybrid organicinorganic materials ● Synthesis and processing advanced molecular materials and polymers ● Functional polymers andionic liquids ● Nanostructured materials and nanodevices ● Biomaterials and biotechnology ● Electro-active ceramics,
Theoretical/modelling/computer simulations of functional materials ● Natural chromophores ● Molecular nonlinear optics ●Multiphoton absorption and application ● Molecular lasers ● Molecular magnetic materials ● Molecular optoelectronicmaterials ● Piezo- and ferro-electric materials ● 2D Materials and their applications ● 3D printing ● Liquid crystals ● Organic
coatings and corrosion ● Molecular sensors ● Nuclear materials ● Advanced materials for nanophotonics and biophotonics● Polymers and hybrid materials for plastic electronics and photonics ● New materials, mechanics, and devices for defence
technology ● Natural fibers - New areas of advanced products in 21st century ● Molecular field effect transistors

P l e n a r y S p e a ke r s

Organized by

Plenary I: Prof. Denis Fichou

Plenary IV: Prof. Paras Prasad(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore &Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)(State University of Buffalo, New York, USA)

Title: Organic single crystal semiconductors for
emerging electronic devices

Plenary II: Prof. Chulhee Kim

Title: Development and applications of a
new class of 2-D and quantum materials

Title: Tunable Multifunctional Supramolecular
Platforms with Stimuli-responsive Surfaces

Plenary III: Prof. Chris Matyjaszewski(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)

Title: Advanced Materials by ATRP

Abstract
submission

17th February 2019

Early bird
registration

17th May 2019

Acceptance
notification

17th March 2019

Conference date

17th June ~21st June 2019

Publications:
1. Molecular Crystals Liquid
Crystals journal (Impact
factor = 0.633)
2. Pigment & Resin
Technology(Impact factor = 0.486)

3. International Journal of
Hydrogen Energy(Impact factor = 4.229)

Registration Fees:(Dept Polymer Science & Engineering, Inha
University, South Korea)

Important Dates:

Early bird registration(17th May 2019)

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Invited Speaker

USD 550

USD 600

RegularStudent

USD 600
USD 400

USD 700
USD 450

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USD 350

USD 350

For more details, please visit our website: https://umconference.um.edu.my/ICFPAM-2019

Secretariat
Centre for Ionics University of
Malaya,Department of Physics, Faculty of
Science, University of Malaya,50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
E-mail: icfpam2019@um.edu.my
Contact number: (603) 7967
4095/7143

10th International Conference
Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability
23-28 June 2019
St. Petersburg, Russia
Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends:
We are pleased to cordially invite you to participate in the 10th International Conference "Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability - 2019" in honor of
Kimiyuki Satoh (Japan), Tingyun Kuang (China), Cesare Marchetti (Italy) and Anthony
Larkum (Australia).
Your participation is important for the success of the Meeting, and will be very much appreciated. This Meeting will be a great occasion for discussions of previous, present, and future research on photosynthesis and hydrogen energy, from molecular to global, and will provide an
exciting scientific program, which will cover the breadth and depth of photosynthesis and hydrogen energy, and to meet researchers of photosynthesis and hydrogen energy from aroundthe world. This meeting will provide a forum for students, postdoctoral fellows and scientists
from different countries to deepen their knowledge and understanding, widen professional contact, to create new opportunities and establish new collaborations.
Please save the date, spread the information among colleagues, and link the website at https://
icprs.ru/
The website will be supplemented step-by-step with relevant information on the meeting.
Sincerely yours,
Suleyman Allakhverdiev
Conference Chair
P.S. From late May to early July nights are bright in St-Petersburg, but the real White Nights
normally last from June 11 to July 2.

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The 11 International Exergy, Energy and Environment Symposium (IEEES-11)
The 11th International Exergy, Energy and Environment Symposium (IEEES-11) is an initiative
aimed at bringing together the academicians, researchers, scientists, technocrats andpracticing engineers in the eld. As a conuence of many disciplines, this International
Symposium/Conference serves as a forum that promulgates ideas, experience, andknowledge of the fellow researchers and engineers working on sustainable energy systems
across the globe. It is worthy to note that IEEES-11 covers a diverse assortment of cuttingedge topics, including Clean Coal Technologies, Renewable Energy Technologies, Smart
Energy Systems, Alternative Fuels, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies, Nuclear Energy,
Desalination Technologies, and Environmental Technologies.
The IEEES-11 increases the visibility and advancement in futuristic and cleaner technologies
like Green Energy, Renewable Energy, Environmental Science and e-mobility. Other highlights
are Smart Cities, Green Building, Energy Management Systems, and Desalination
Technologies. It also addresses the societal and environmental threats, unveiling thechallenges in the Life Cycle Assessment, CO2 Reduction Technologies, Bio-Waste Utilization,
Nuclear Energy and Fuels for Transportation that includes Synthetic and Third Generation
fuels. During this symposium, more emphasis will be given to the “Green Transportation andSustainable mobility”, benecial for the new development of sustainable technology forthermal comforts and green transportation vehicle. A special session will be hosted on theimportance of Hydrogen Production and Utilization/Storage Technologies, Fuel Cell
Technologies and the challenges involved in its implementation in the mobility sector.
This is the eleventh symposium, which is to be held in SRM IST, Chennai, India. Previous
successful editions were held at Izmir, Turkey (2003); Kos, Greece (2005); Evora, Portugal(2007); Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2009); Luxor, Egypt (2011); Eurasia, Turkey (2013);
Valenciennes, France (2015); Antalya, Turkey (2016); Split, Croatia (2017) and Katowice,
Poland (2018). Topics and new trends will be introduced through several keynote lecturesthat will be presented by internationally recognized experts.
« Algae Fuels« Hydrogen Production and Utilization« Bio-Waste Utilization
Technologies« Cogeneration and Micro Generation« Life Cycle Assessment« Combustion, Pyrolysis, and Gasication « New Materials for Energy Applications
Technologies« Nuclear Energy« Desalination Technologies« Refrigeration and Heat Pump Systems« Electro-Chemical Devices« Renewable Energy Systems(Fuel Cells, Capacitors, Batteries, etc.)« Sectoral Energy Management« Energetic System Optimization« Smart Grids« Energy Systems and Applications« Sustainable Communities« Environmental Engineering Technologies « Sustainable Development« Environmental Impact Assessment« Sustainable Mobility« Exergy Analysis and Modeling« Synthetic Fuels« Fossil Fuels« Thermal comfort and Green« Green Buildings
Transportation Vehicles« Green Energy Technologies« Thermal Systems and Applications« Green Transportation Vehicles« Thermodynamic Optimization« Heat and Mass Transfer« Tri-generation Systems

Date: 14 - 18 July 2019
Venue: SRM Institute of Science & Technology,
Chennai, India
Founding Chair
I. Dincer
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Symposium Chair
M. Leenus Jesu Martin, SRM IST, Chennai, India
V. Edwin Geo, SRM IST, Chennai, India
Symposium Co-Chair
F. Aloui
Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France,
Valenciennes, France
Contact
The Symposium Chair
Department of Automobile Engineering
School of Mechanical Engineering
SRM IST, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, INDIA
Mobile: 00-91-9840498667
Email ID: convenor.ieees11@srmuniv.ac.in
ieees11.2019@srmuniv.ac.in (For paper
submission)
Website: http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/ieees-11

IF: 3.009

IF: 0.913

IF: 4.229

IF: 0.66

IF: 1.09

International Advisory Committee
S. Awad, France

A. Midilli , Turkey

A. Bejan, USA

F. Miguel, Portugal

E. Berrich, France

N. Mrad, France

A. Beyene, USA

M. N. Nabi, Australia

R. Brown, Australia

M. Ni, China

P. Grammelis, Greece

J. Peng, UK

R. Gheith Ayed, Tunisia

A. Philip Rubini, UK

A. Hepbasli, Turkey

S. G. Ramalingam, Canada

M. Hernandez, Columbia

M. Reza, UK

A. Hossain, UK

B .V. Reddy, Canada

T. M. IndraMahlia, Australia

A .H. Reis, Portugal

D. Jhon Albino, Canada

A. Reza Pishevar, Iran

T. H. Karakoc, Turkey

E. Sciubba, Italy

K. Loubar, France

M. Tazerout , France

J. Legrand, France

G. Tsatsaronis, Germany

X. Li, Canada
C. Marin, France

R. Vallinayagam, Saudi Arabia
Y. Wenming, Singapore

Important Dates
Abstract submission: 15 January 2019Notication of abstract acceptance: 30 January 2019
Full manuscript due: 15 March 2019Notication of manuscript acceptance: 10 May 2019

ICENES 201919th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems

6 - 9 October 2019, Bali, Indonesia
The 19th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2019) is recognized as one of the
major international conference on scientific, engineering, and other technical aspects of innovative nuclear reactor
design, advanced nuclear technology, etc. In the conference, we are looking at “bold” and “unthinkable” ideas on asound scientific-technical basis. Papers on strategy, concept, technique and method related to innovative nuclear
system are welcome.
ICENES has been held in 14 countries as a venue for sharing ideas and research results on emerging nuclear energy
technologies and applications. The ICENES 2019 will be held by The Technical University of Bandung in Holiday
Inn, Bali, Indonesia (6-9 October 2019). The conference will cover keynote, invited and contributed oral talks andposter presentations.

Host organizations
Technical University Bandung
Bahçeşehir University
President of ICENES
Prof. Dr. Sümer ŞAHİN
Conference Chairmen
Prof. Dr. Abdul WARIS
Prof. Dr. Zaki SUUD
Technical Program Chairman
Prof. Dr. Sidik PERMANA
Scientific Secretaries
Dr. Syeilendra Pramuditya
Dr. Eng. Dwi Irwanto
Standing Committee
José M. MARTÍNEZ-VAL
Rainer SALOMAA
Jacques LIGOU
Günter KESSLER
Guillermo VELARDE
Ralph MOIR
Hideshi YASUDA
Anatoloy ZRODNIKOVLouis TEPPER
A. H. VERKOOIJENTom MEHLHORN
Hamid Ait ABDERRAHIM
Sümer ŞAHİN
Pedro VAZ
Wayne MEIER
Emilio Minguez TORRES
Hacı Mehmet ŞAHİN
Yican WU
Scientific Committee
C. R . C. Rubbia T. Nejat Veziroğlu
Mohamed Abdou İbrahim Dinçer
Laila El-Guebaly Mohamed S. El-Genk
Yonghee Kim
Hiroshi Sekimoto
Jose Manuel Perlado Kazuo Tanaka
Waclaw GudowskiŞenay Yalçın
Mohamed Sawan Andrey Gulevich
V. Jagannathan Minghuang Wang
Chen Zhibin
Ruzhu Wang
Xiaojing Liu

Technical Topics
1.

Innovative Nuclear Energy
Key Dates
Development Strategy• April 30, 2019
1. Advanced Fission Systems• Space Nuclear Reactors
Abstract Submission Deadline• Generation IV Reactors• May 30, 2019
• Small Modular Reactor
Abstract Acceptance Notification
2. Fusion Energy Systems• Magnetic Confinement Fusion System • June 15, 2019
• Inertial Confinement Fusion System
Early Registration Deadline
4. Hybrid Nuclear Energy Systems• October 6-9, 2019
• Fusion Driven Subcritical System• Accelerator Driven Subcritical System Conference Convened
5. Advanced Technology and Other Issues • September 30, 2019
• Modeling, Database and Simulations
Manuscripts Submission Deadline• Advanced Fuels & Materials• Facility and Component Development• Radiation Protection & Shielding• Safety and Environment• Operation and Maintenance• Reprocessing
6. Nuclear Energy Expanded Applications• Solar and Wind Power
Contact Information• Hydrogen Energy• Nuclear Hydrogen Production
Tel: +62 813 22 19 66 44• Others
E-mail: awaris@fi.itb.ac.id
7. Knowledge, Management
Website:
8. Human Resources andhttp://portal.fmipa.itb.ac.id/icenes2019
Social Issues

Upcoming Meetings & Activities
April 2019
9th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards
April 21-26, 2019
St. Petersburg, Russia
http://www.isfeh9.org/
8th Global Conference on Global Warming
April 22-25, 2019
Doha, Qatar
https//www.gcgw.org
14th Hydrogen Power Theoretical and Engineering
Solutions International Symposium
April 24-26, 2019
Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
https://www.hypothesis.ws

May 2019
10th International Conference on Hydrogen Production
May 15-17, 2019
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
https://www.ich2p.org
The Impulse Summit for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
May 22-23, 2019
Vancouver, Canada
https://www.f-cell.de/en/program/f-cell-hfc.html

June 2019
WHTC 2019
June 2-7, 2019
Tokyo, Japan
http://whtc2019.jp/index.html
15th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers
and Advanced Materials 2019
June 17-21, 2019
Penang, Malaysia
https://umconference.um.edu.my/ICFPAM-2019
10th International Conference Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability
June 23-28, 2019
St. Petersburg, Russia
https://icprs.ru/

July 2019
Energy Security and Chemical Engineering Congress
2019
July 17-19, 2019
Penang, Malaysia
http://esche.ump.edu.my/index.php/en/
11th International Exergy, Energy, and Environment
Symposium (IEEES-11)
July 14-18, 2019
Chennai, India
http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/ieees-11/

August 201917th International Conference on Clean Energy
August 9-12, 2019
Shenyang, China
http://2019icce.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1

September 2019
Advanced Energy Materials
September 11-13, 2019
Guildford, Englandhttps://www.advanced-energymaterialsconference.com/
XXIVth International Symposium on Combustion
September 23-25, 2019
Wrocaw, Poland
http://iscp2019.pwr.edu.pl/

October 201919th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear
Energy Systems
October 6-9, 2019
Bali, Indonesia
http://portal.fmipa.itb.ac.id/icenes2019

July 2020
WHEC 2010
July 5-9, 2020
Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.whec2020.org

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