📋 Tender Overview
Funded Value6554030Funded PeriodApr 19 - Sep 27FunderEPSRCProject StatusActiveProject CategoryTraining GrantProject ReferenceEPS0239091The global hydrogen generation market is valued at 115.25 billion in 2017 and is projected to grow to 154.74 billion by 2022 Global Outlook Trends for Hydrogen IEA 2017. We are witnessing significant market opportunities emerging for hydrogen technologies today. New and existing hydrogen technology developments and market activities are projected to intensify over the coming decade. Sustainable hydrogen solutions are a key pathway for decarbonising transport heat and power generation sectors. Common challenges to sustainable hydrogen being adopted across these sectors are- Cost reduction- Safety - Systems level and multisectoral innovations - Managing changeOver the next decade innovative solutions are needed to tackle the above challenges but it will be impossible without a dedicated mechanism to train doctoral Energy Innovation Leaders. These leaders should have a firm grasp of the technology from scientific fundamentals through to applied engineering and a solid understanding of the techno-economic barriers and an appreciation of the societal issues that will impact on the translation of disruptive technologies from research labs through to market. This goes beyond being multidisciplinary but is a transdisciplinary training reflecting the translation steps from understanding market driven needs planning and conducting appropriate basic and applied research to productssolutionssystem development through to successful market penetration. This is delivered by a cohort training approach through the cross fertilisation of ideas of a cohort with a diverse background peer-demonstration of the value of research across a diverse range of stakeholder-led projects thus facilitating a peer-to-peer transdisciplinary learning culture.The SusHy Consortium led by Gavin Walker continues a long running and highly successful collaboration in hydrogen research between the Universities of Nottingham Loughborough and Birmingham UoN LU UoB which started over a decade ago with the Midlands Energy Consortium. The Midlands Energy Graduate School spawned two successful CDTs Hydrogen Fuel Cells and their Applications and the current Fuel Cells and their Fuels. The current proposal for a CDT in Sustainable Hydrogen brings together the world leading expertise in hydrogen generation purification sensorsmonitoring and storage along with whole systems issues resilience engineering business economic models and life cycle analysis which exist across the three Universities. A gap in the consortium expertise is in the research field of hydrogen safety and we identified the internationally-renowned Hydrogen Safety Engineering and Research Centre HySAFER at Ulster University UU as the right partner to deliver on this key aspect. This is the first broad collaboration in
