Topic:

Technical Seminar and Webinar on “Meeting the Hydrogen Economy Era: Recent Advances in H2 Production & Storage Technology”

Organizer：

Materials Division

Co-organizer:

Environmental Division

Date, Time & Venue

17 October 2022 (Monday). Time: 6:30pm -8:00 pm, at Chan Yat Mei Sophie Room, 9/F of the HKIE Headquarters.

Speaker:

Ir Dr Alex Tsang is currently Programme Leader and Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering & Management Programme in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi). He is Chartered Chemical Engineer, Chartered Energy Engineer, and Corporate Member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (Materials). He was a researcher at ECO Environmental Energy Research Institute, working on carbon mitigation technologies, alternative and renewable energy. He was also an energy chemist working on solid and liquid hydrogen storage materials in Canada before.

Programme Highlights

Climate disruption due to fossil fuels depletions is among the most challenging environmental issues confronting the society today. Hydrogen as a clean energy carrier, can provide solutions for these problems since it can be derived from renewable resources such as water and can achieve the target for carbon neutrality. To realize hydrogen economy in a society, several technical bottleneck areas need to be urgently addressed, namely, the production, transportation and the storage, which remain as hurdles to the widespread use of hydrogen for automotive applications. Nowadays, production of hydrogen still rely heavily on fossil fuels and several environmental-benign methods are emerging. Current commercial hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles use either compressed hydrogen tank, cryogenic hydrogen tank, liquefied hydrogen tank, or metal hydride tank, and there are problems such as extra energy requirement for compression, liquefaction and adsorption/desorption process. The use of safe hydrogen storage materials with high mass energy density could be a solution for this. In this talk, the pros and cons of major advances in hydrogen production & storage technology will be critically evaluated and discussed. (This work was fully funded by Hong Kong University Grants Committee - the Faculty Development Scheme (FDS), grant number UGC/FDS25/E08/20 and the Institutional Development Scheme (IDS), grant number UGC/IDS(C)14/B(E)01/19.)

Registration & Enquiries

The talk would be carried out on both physical (20 seats) and zoom (300 seats) arrangement. Registration is required. Please fill the online application form before 13 October 2022. Confirmation will be made through email by Individual. For enquiry, please contact Ir CS Lam at 91527659. Attendance Certificate will be issued within 3 weeks after completion of the seminar through email.