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DO WE REALLY NEED HYDROGEN?

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Virtual
wifi event
Date
May 11, 2021   1:00 pm  
Speaker
Dr. Jack Brouwer, Ph.D. Professor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.C. Irvine; Director, National Fuel Cell Research Center & Advanced Power and Energy Program
Contact
Lindsey Henson
E-Mail
lrh@illinois.edu
Phone
217-300-8238
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Abstract

Renewable, ultra-low emissions and high efficiency energy conversion systems will be required to introduce energy resource and environmental sustainability. In particular, the dynamic dispatch, massive energy storage capacity, and ubiquitous transmission and distribution of energy that the power-to-gas and hydrogen energy storage concepts provide will become essential to enable a 100% renewable economy.  In addition, these concepts enable zero greenhouse gas and zero criteria pollutant emissions energy conversion that spans across applications in the built environment, to transportation, to utility grid network support and sustainability.  Recent research on the dynamics and control of electrochemical energy conversion systems to enable this future will be discussed.

Bio

Prof. Brouwer is an energy system dynamics expert with research interests in advanced, alternative and renewable energy systems development; electrochemical conversion devices and systems such as fuel cells, electrolyzers and batteries; dynamic simulation and control systems development; energy system thermodynamics, design, and integration; and electrochemical reactions with concurrent heat, mass and momentum transfer.  Prof. Brouwer obtained his M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

Host:  Professor Petros Sofronis

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