Challenges and Opportunities for Green Hydrogen Production from Water Electrolysis
This will be a hybrid event followed by a tour of the laboratory facilities of Prof Chuan Zhao, Professor of Chemistry for Clean Energy and Sustainability, University of New South Wales
Hydrogen holds the promise as a green energy carrier for global scale storage of renewable energy, e.g., solar and wind, enabling the continuous usage of these diffusive and intermittent energy sources when used together with hydrogen fuel cells. Water electrolyser is a cornerstone technology for the hydrogen economy, which requires highly efficient, low-cost, and robust catalyst materials to reduce its current energy consumption and cost. However, there is currently a gap between lab-scale research and industrial-scale water electrolysis, due to catalysts, cell design, and operating conditions challenges.
This talk highlights the current challenges and opportunities for water electrolysis from a material perspective and showcases the Zhao’s group efforts in developing electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions in alkaline and acid electrolytes, as well as our operando investigations of the catalytic processes and the gas bubble behaviours. The commercialisation of some of the Zhao’s group work for the water electrolyser industry also will be introduced to highlight the significance of material design from atomic to macroscopic to industrial scale.
Agenda:
- 11:45 Arrival
- 12:10 – 12.40 Presentation [Online and In-person]
- 12.40 – 13.10 Q&A [Online and In-person]
- 13.10 – 13.40 Light lunch and networking [In-person]
- 13.40 – 14.00 Prof Zhao’s lab tour [In-person]
Presenters: Prof Chuan Zhao, Professor of Chemistry for Clean Energy and Sustainability, University of New South Wales
