Details
1-day course
CPD Credit: 6.5 hours, C1
Course Overview
There is huge interest in the prospects for hydrogen in helping achieve key goals facing the energy sector, including decarbonisation and energy security. However, with hydrogen’s role being pushed in so many different applications, it can be difficult to navigate the different viewpoints, proposals and opinions on how the emerging landscape might look.
This course provides a time-effective and independent perspective on the ‘upstream’ aspects of the hydrogen supply chain: how can it be produced in a sustainable (‘clean’) manner, and how might it get to where it’s needed? What are the limits to scaling up these different aspects of the hydrogen sector?
Presented in language accessible to non-experts, the day will cover and explain relationships between a range of aspects, from technology and practical deployment to economics and policy.
This course provides a time-effective and independent perspective on the ‘upstream’ aspects of the hydrogen supply chain: how can it be produced in a sustainable (‘clean’) manner, and how might it get to where it’s needed? What are the limits to scaling up these different aspects of the hydrogen sector?
Presented in language accessible to non-experts, the day will cover and explain relationships between a range of aspects, from technology and practical deployment to economics and policy.
Course Aim
To provide an independent, hype-free, business-focused introduction to the market growth opportunities and barriers in clean hydrogen production, storage and transportation.
Course Programme
In the morning session, the course will compare and contrast the various methods by which hydrogen can be produced, in both carbon-emitting and ‘clean’ ways. Key factors such as scalability, resources, policy, clean standards and market demand will be addressed along the way.
After lunch, the course will examine the different ways in which hydrogen might get from its point of supply to sources of end-use demand. Key factors in this discussion will include the challenges presented by hydrogen’s properties as a fuel, the scalability of competing alternatives and the pros and cons of moving hydrogen within other molecules instead.
Along the way, there will be plenty of opportunities for Q&A.
Session 1: Hydrogen production methods
- Hydrogen production today, including its emissions footprint
- Comparing and contrasting clean hydrogen production methods
- Illustrating the key drivers of clean hydrogen economics
- The key features of a ‘green’ hydrogen project
Session 2: Policy around hydrogen supply
- Defining ‘clean’ hydrogen: definitions, debates and disagreements
- Mechanisms to bridge the cost gap between current and clean hydrogen production
- Where will clean hydrogen be produced?
- Who wants to buy clean hydrogen?
Session 3: Hydrogen as a ‘difficult’ fuel to store and move
- The key physical and chemical properties of hydrogen
- Hydrogen compression (not glamorous, but important!)
- Hydrogen in pipelines
- Liquifying hydrogen
Session 4: Hydrogen supply chain options and alternatives
- Transporting and storing hydrogen as something else
- Hydrogen carriers and derivatives (e.g. ammonia, LOHCs, e-fuels etc.)
- Can hydrogen supply chains scale up?
- Market factors which will determine supply chain choices
Learning Objectives
- Understand how hydrogen is produced today and what the clean alternatives are
- Learn how ‘clean’ hydrogen is being defined
- Examine the factors which will determine clean hydrogen production costs
- Evaluate the policy context, including drivers for hydrogen growth and mechanisms to achieve it
- Learn why hydrogen is a difficult fuel to store and move
- Understand key supply chain debates, including around energy efficiency and scalability
- Discover why molecules such as ammonia are generating such interest
- Discuss where and why hydrogen might be produced and traded
Who Should Attend?
Anyone seeking an easy-to-understand, business-focused overview of the hydrogen supply chain, from production to distribution. Including from sectors such as:
- Hydrogen project development
- Finance and Investment
- Policy development
- Industrial and consumer gas distribution
- Transportation
- Renewable power
- Electricity production and distribution
Trainer Profile
Dr. John Massey
Dr John Massey is an independent clean energy analyst and business educator, and Managing Director of Grey Cells Energy Ltd.
In this role, he undertakes his own independent market research and analysis on a number of sectors central to the clean energy transition. Based on this research, he provides commercially focused, hype-free education, training, content development and advisory services to clients worldwide. This includes through partnerships with organisations such as World Hydrogen Leaders and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
He has a particular passion for helping diverse job roles and functions ‘talk the same language’ in clean energy. On one hand, this means helping non-technical people (such as investors, business leaders and policymakers) to understand and evaluate opportunities, risks and market deployment pathways for key growth technologies. On the other, it means helping technical people understand the commercial, financial and political constraints of the markets within which they seek to grow.
John has been part of the clean energy sector for over fifteen years and involved in the market analysis and evaluation of growth technology markets for almost thirty. He has delivered training in-person in over thirty countries across five continents and to even more locations online.
In terms of academic background, he has a 1st class honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, a PhD in Earth Sciences and a further diploma in Economics and Sustainability.
Engineers Ireland supports the Sustainable Development Goals. This event contributes to Engineers Ireland's Sustainability Framework.
Please contact the Team for further information on scheduled course dates and In-Company options. You can reach us by phone: 01 665 1305 or email cpdtraining@engineersireland.ie