EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Hydrogen - SusHy

2017年，全球氢能发电市场价值1152.5亿美元，预计到2022年将增长到1547.4亿美元[国际能源署，2017年全球氢气展望与趋势]。今天，我们看到氢气技术出现了巨大的市场机会。新的和现有的氢气技术发展和市场活动预计将在未来十年加强。可持续的氢解决方案是运输、热力和发电部门脱碳的关键途径。这些行业在采用可持续氢能方面面临的共同挑战是：-降低成本-安全-系统层面和多部门创新-管理变化-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级能源创新领导者，就不可能实现。这些领导者应该牢牢掌握从科学基础到应用工程的技术，对技术-经济障碍有坚实的理解，并认识到将影响颠覆性技术从研究实验室转化到市场的社会问题。这不仅仅是一种多学科的培训，而是一种跨学科的培训，反映了从了解市场驱动的需求、规划和进行适当的基础和应用研究到产品/解决方案/系统开发再到成功的市场渗透的翻译步骤。这是通过一种队列培训方法来实现的，这种方法通过交叉传播具有不同背景的队列的想法，在不同的利益相关者主导的项目中同行展示研究的价值，从而促进对等的跨学科学习文化。由加文·沃克领导的SusHy联盟继续着诺丁汉大学、拉夫堡大学和伯明翰大学(UON，LU，UOB)在氢气研究方面的长期且非常成功的合作，该合作始于十多年前与米德兰能源联盟。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)。目前关于可持续氢气的CDT的提议汇集了三所大学在制氢、提纯、传感器/监测和储存方面的世界领先专业知识，以及存在的整个系统问题(弹性工程、商业经济模型和生命周期分析)。该联盟在氢安全研究领域的专业知识存在差距，我们确定阿尔斯特大学(UU)国际知名的氢安全工程和研究中心(HySAFER)为提供这一关键方面的合适合作伙伴。这是世界上第一个寻求在可持续氢能领域进行调查、培训研究人员和培养领导者的广泛合作。这一CDT的一个关键优势是利益攸关方积极参与共同创建培训方案，这与利益攸关方对CDT的价值看法是互惠的。这两所大学和利益相关者之间关于培训伙伴关系的共同愿景将使CDT顺利发挥作用，不仅有一个高质量的培训计划，而且还有一个为行业需求量身定做的计划，以培养高素质、行业就绪的博士能源创新领导者。CDT与利益相关者的宝贵合作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，并将被用来帮助向不同的人才库推销CDT项目。

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.