Hydrogen as driver for a decarbonized economy

OpenInnoTrain partner UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) organised a conference together with the Catalan Society of Chemistry on 14th December 2021. The XXI Enric Casassas Conference was entitled “Hydrogen as driver for a decarbonized economy".

It took place with a hybrid format: at the EEBE (Barcelona School of Engineering) and online. The sessions explored the potential of hydrogen and its main challenges through the insights of various international speakers, among which Dr. Krish Sankaran, CEO of RIG (Radical Innovations Group), and concluded with a roundtable discussion led by Cesar Valderrama (UPC).

Agenda

9:00 – 9:10
Conference opening (Adriana Farràn, EEBE director, Joan de Pablo, representative at the EEBE campus and Rosa Maria Marcé, SCQ vice chairman)

9:10 – 10:00
Scenarios for hydrogen production, transport and final use (Massimo Santarelli, Full Professor in Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, Department of Energy, Politecnicodi Torino)

10:00 – 10:30

A brief history of Hydrogen’s European Policy Framework (Davine Janssen, Project Manager Waterstof Industrie Cluster)

10:30 – 11:00

Wishful thinking or a way forward: what colour is your hydrogen? (Krishnaswamy Sankaran, Chief Executive Officer at Radical Innovations Group AB)

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00
How big will hydrogen be? (Brais Armiño Franco, Hydrogen consultant at AtlantHy.)

12:00 – 12:30
Enric Casassas Conference: Hydrogen from sunlight and water: challenges and prospects (Lluís Soler Turu, “Ramón y Cajal" research fellow at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

12:30 – 13:00

UPC Hydrogen Lab: Building the decade of hydrogen 2020-2030 (Attila Husar, UPC Fuel Cell Researcher)

13:00 – 13:30
Round Table. Led by César Valderrama (Associate Professor UPC)

13:30
Conference closure