In alignment with the U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office's H2@Scale vision, HydroGEN continues to demonstrate the impact of international scientific collaborations.
HydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium
May 27, 2024
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HydroGEN director, Dr. Huyen Dinh, was invited to deliver a talk at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energy Systems ISE (Fraunhofer ISE) on May 13, 2024. The talk covered national laboratory hydrogen research and development activities that included work from the HydroGEN and H2NEW Consortia. Fraunhofer ISE is the largest solar research institute in Europe that is developing materials, components, systems and processes in the research areas of energy provision, energy distribution, energy storage and energy utilization.
As part of the Scientific Advisory Board for the FlowPhotoChem European Consortium, Dinh also delivered a talk on hydrogen research on May 15, 2024 and participated in-person at the consortium’s final annual review meeting at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, Germany, on May 16 and 17, 2024. A demonstration and integration of photocatalytic, photoelectrochemical, and electrochemical reactors to produce ethylene at the high-flux solar simulator captured and highlighted the results and the impact of the international scientific collaboration.
FlowPhotoChem is a multi-national, European-Union-funded research consortium that is developing new and better ways to manufacture chemicals using carbon dioxide and sunlight. Their goal is to replace much of the fossil fuels used today to make fuels and useful chemicals, by using solar energy and advanced catalysts to convert CO2 into, for example, ethylene, as a precursor for plastics.
In addition to aligning with the U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office's H2@Scale vision, HydroGEN's international participation contributes to the global clean hydrogen community, promotes awareness of the state-of-the-art renewable hydrogen production research that the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office supports, and fosters potential partnerships that may lead to international protocol standardization and R&D acceleration of water splitting technologies.