Tutor(s)
Matthew Healey: Managing Director, PACE CCS.
Overview
This course is designed to provide the participants with a summary of the technical and engineering challenges within hydrogen energy, including production, storage and transport, in addition to associated risk and safety challenges.
Duration and Logistics
Classroom version: A 1-day in-person classroom course. An electronic copy of the manual will be provided by the tutor at the end of the course.
Virtual version: Two 3.5-hour interactive online sessions presented over 2 days, including a mix of lectures and discussion. The course manual will be provided in digital format.
Level and Audience
Advanced. This course is designed for all technical staff working on hydrogen projects with an emphasis on operations, facilities and engineering aspects.
Objectives
You will learn to:
- Outline the different ‘colours’ of hydrogen and how these are produced.
- Evaluate the technical challenges with hydrogen, including thermodynamic modelling of H2 mixtures.
- Review how H2 can be stored and transported safely.
- Outline the design specifications of H2 networks with a focus on pipelines, including material of construction and reuse of existing infrastructure.
Course Content
Hydrogen commodity strategy
- Value of H2 and its strategic position in the energy transition
- Economic study case: key takeaways, its challenges and conclusions
Hydrogen production
- Green hydrogen
- Blue hydrogen
- Other colours
Technical challenges with hydrogen
- Quantum effects and kinetics of isomer conversion
- Thermodynamic modelling of H2-rich mixtures
- What are the current engineering and scientific practices? Learnings from CERN and NASA
- Energy content
Large-scale storage and compression
- Seasonal underground storage
- Long-term pressurized storage
- Types of compressors
- Energy consumption
Hydrogen transport
- Gas pipelines
- Liquid bulk transport
Hydrogen carriers
- LOHC
- Ammonia
- Methanol
- Natural gas
Material of construction
- Material selection
- Reuse of pipelines
- Codes and standards
Risk and safety
- Gas and flame detection
- Fire and explosion risks session
Current projects worldwide and value chains
- Description of current project in Europe
- Blue CCS project
- Integration with oil and gas
- Green and blue hydrogen corridor
