EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Hydrogen - SusHy

EPSRC 可持续氢博士培训中心 - SusHy

• 批准号: EP/S023909/1
• 金额: $ 873.79万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS023909%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Centre; Doctoral; Training; Sustainable

The 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 products/solutions/system 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, sensors/monitoring, 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 the world seeking to investigate, train researchers and produce leaders in Sustainable Hydrogen.Stakeholder Partnerships. A key strength of this CDT is the active involvement of the Stakeholders in co-creation of the training programme which is reciprocated in the value with which the Stakeholders view of the CDT. This shared vision of a training partnership between the Universities and Stakeholders will lead to the smooth function of the CDT with not just a high-quality training programme, but a programme that is tailored to the sector needs for high-quality, industry-ready doctoral Energy Innovation Leaders. The valued CDT-stakeholder partnership will also be a significant appeal to candidates interested in energy-related PhDs and will be used to help market the CDT programme to a diverse talent pool.

2017年全球制氢市场价值为1152.5亿美元，预计到2022年将增长到1547.4亿美元[全球氢能展望与趋势，IEA，2017]。我们目睹了当今氢技术出现的重大市场机遇。新的和现有的氢技术开发和市场活动预计将在未来十年内加强。可持续的氢气解决方案是运输、供热和发电部门脱碳的关键途径。这些行业采用可持续氢的共同挑战是：-降低成本-安全性-系统层面和多部门创新-管理变革未来十年，需要创新的解决方案来应对上述挑战，但如果没有专门的机制来培养博士能源创新领导者，这将是不可能的。这些领导者应该牢牢掌握从科学基础到应用工程的技术，并对技术经济障碍有深刻的理解，并了解将影响颠覆性技术从研究实验室转化为市场的社会问题。这不仅仅是多学科的，而是一种跨学科的培训，反映了从理解市场驱动的需求，规划和进行适当的基础和应用研究到产品/解决方案/系统开发的翻译步骤，直到成功的市场渗透。这是通过一个队列培训的方法，通过交叉施肥的想法队列与不同背景，同行示范的研究价值在一个不同的范围内的业主主导的项目，从而促进点对点的跨学科学习文化。SusHy联盟，由加文步行者领导，继续在氢气研究之间的长期运行和非常成功的合作诺丁汉大学，拉夫堡和伯明翰（UoN，LU，UoB），十多年前开始与米德兰能源联盟。米德兰兹能源研究生院产生了两个成功的CDT（氢，燃料电池及其应用和当前的燃料电池及其燃料）。目前的可持续氢CDT提案汇集了世界领先的氢气生产，纯化，传感器/监测和储存方面的专业知识，沿着整个系统问题（弹性工程，商业经济模型和生命周期分析），这些问题存在于三所大学。该联盟专业知识的一个缺口是氢安全研究领域，我们将阿尔斯特大学（UU）的国际知名氢安全工程和研究中心（HySAFER）确定为在这一关键方面提供服务的合适合作伙伴。这是世界上第一次广泛的合作，旨在调查、培训研究人员和培养可持续氢能领域的领导者。该CDT的一个关键优势是利益相关者积极参与共同创建培训方案，这与利益相关者对CDT的价值观相对应。大学和利益相关者之间的培训合作伙伴关系的共同愿景将使CDT顺利运作，不仅提供高质量的培训计划，而且还提供针对行业需求量身定制的高质量、行业就绪的博士课程能源创新领导者。有价值的CDT利益相关者伙伴关系也将对对能源相关博士学位感兴趣的候选人产生重大吸引力，并将用于帮助将CDT计划推向多样化的人才库。