Hydrogen obtained from dissociation of water with renewable energy, nuclear or the water-gas shift reaction in advanced gasification technologies provided with CO2 capture and sequestration, is considered as a medium term perspective for an appealing, clean, abundant, safe and cost effective energy source, its prime mover being fuel cells to generate electricity that can be used directly or converted to motion, heat or light.

Implementing hydrogen as an environmentally friendly, sustainable and efficient energy carrier, however requires major problems for its production, storage and use to be solved. Breakthroughs in materials research to find effective robust catalysts and new storage techniques that satisfy weight, volumetric, safety and cost requirements are critical for hydrogen to perform competitively. Crucial is gaining a deeper understanding of the phenomena that govern the interactions of hydrogen with materials, to exploit the enormous opportunities offered by nanotechnology and to develop modelling and simulation strategies for predicting reaction pathways, materials properties and systems behaviours in order to minimise lengthy and expensive trial-and-error experiments.

“Materials and Process Innovations in Hydrogen Production and Storage” will bring together researchers from Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering to share up-to-date scientific and technical advances in the field, and to highlight outstanding problems and guidelines for future research. Fundamental aspects of catalysis, separation and purification processes; chemistry and physics of hydrogen bonding, adsorption and release mechanisms; materials synthesis, processing and characterisation; system implementation and performance evaluation including safety and economics issues will be featured.

FB-1 Hydrogen Production

FB-1.1-Thermochemical
FB-1.2-Photoelectrochemical, photobiological and photo-bio-mimetic
FB-1.3-Biomass reforming, electrolysis, water-gas shift in advanced coal gasification

FB-2 Hydrogen Storage

FB-2.1-Gaseous and cryogenic
FB-2.2-Metal hydrides
FB-2.3-Complex hydrides
FB-2.4-Chemical hydrides
FB-2.5-Carbon based material e.g. nanohorns, doped nanotubes, nanofibers, fullerenes, activated charcoals, nanostructures
FB-2.6-Other high surface area adsorbents e.g. metal-organic frameworks, conducting polymers, clathrades, zeolites, glass microspheres
FB-2.7 Theoretical modelling
FB-2.8-Storage testing, leak detection, safety, economic issues, etc.

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