As governments and organisations worldwide pursue ambitious climate goals through greenhouse gas emission reductions, hydrogen projects have proliferated across what is now known as the ‘hydrogen value chain’ (H2VC).

However, these projects are typically localised initiatives with limited national or international coordination, resulting in most efforts concentrating on either the production or consumption ends of the value chain.

While many valuable projects exist in both sectors, surprisingly little attention has been paid to connecting them. The critical link is hydrogen compression systems (essential for all transmission and storage), yet this crucial component has received remarkably little focus.

Gas compressors are the primary technology bridging the production and consumption sectors. 

The Energy Institute’s recent research report, ‘Gas Compressors for 100% Hydrogen Duty,’ examines this technology and identifies six major applications, from smaller systems to very large flowrate compressors for gas pipelines and geological storage, where the greatest uncertainties currently exist. 

This webinar builds on this report by addressing common misconceptions about hydrogen behaviour and compression, reviewing currently available compressor types, identifying the most promising technological developments, and examining major outstanding challenges.

Date & Time: Tue, Oct 7th from 1 to 2 PM

Register here:  https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/39a628e4-1888-43f9-995b-efab098c1f95@ac38fa5a-674b-4c32-810a-1aba0bd61a31

About our speaker:

Ian is a rare combination of career businessman, Chartered Engineer, Chartered Environmentalist and part-time academic; he addresses the hydrogen economy from very much more than a single vested-interest viewpoint

He has spent over 55 years in manufacturing industry, mostly in the UK but also other countries; starting as an apprentice, he worked through many roles before moving into senior corporate management, eventually as MD of both UK major hydrogen compressor manufacturers, Howden Compressors and Peter Brotherhood.

For more than 50 years, Ian has been involved in supplying gas compression equipment to the energy industry globally, particularly in hydrogen service and knows the sector very well.
Over the past two decades, Ian has successively been a Visiting Professor in Sustainable Energy at Newcastle, Glasgow and Strathclyde universities, teaching hydrogen-related topics in each.

For the past 29 years, in his sustainability consultancy, Engineered Solutions, Ian has become heavily involved in sustainable engineered systems, in particular their impact on global climate and ecosystems.

Ian is currently a member of the Energy Institute’s Hydrogen Committee and also of its Strategy Group which is defining the hydrogen framework towards 2030.