HyDEX

2022 EU Hydrogen Policy Summit
2022-11-28 12:00 - 2022-11-29 12:00 (Europe/London) | Residence Palace, Wetstraat 155, Brussels, 1040, Belgium
2022 EU Hydrogen Policy Summit, Brussels
The summit will be an outstanding opportunity to bring together policymakers from Birmingham, Nottingham and across the Midlands with counterparts from across the EU, particularly where policy thinking and making is more advanced, to share the latest thinking, fore-sighting and network with some of our key partners in industry and the wider community, aiming to address the question of how we can best filter hydrogen policy down from the international, European and national level to help local regions, cities, towns and communities make the transition to zero carbon.
This in-person event will gather different stakeholders in a bid to share knowledge and best practice on how to implement the changes necessary to best utilise hydrogen to achieve decarbonisation, through the following four themes:

Unlocking Hydrogen Economy Potential
Hydrogen Project Developments in the UK-EU
The Role of International Collaboration in Achieving Zero Carbon Economy
Technologies and Solutions for Use of Hydrogen

More information about the event, please get in touch with Mr Ben Peng : ben.peng@era.ac.uk

Cenex - LCV & CAM event
2022-09-07 08:00 - 2022-09-08 17:00 | UTAC, Milbrook, Millbrook Proving Ground, Station Lane, Bedford, MK452JQ, United Kingdom
UK’s Premier Low Carbon Vehicle Event & Connected Automated Mobility Event.

Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Here and Now
2022-06-28 | UTAC, Milbrook, Millbrook Proving Ground, Station Lane, Bedford, MK452JQ, United Kingdom
Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Here and Now: Tuesday 28th June, NEC, Birmingham. To learn more about HyDEX come and visit us at stand 32 in the Exhibition Area.

Keele University Showcase Event
2022-06-20 | Toyota Motor Manufacturing Plant, Burnaston, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 9TA,, United Kingdom
20 June: Showcase event at Keele University

UKAEA-ERA Research Workshop on UKAEA's Nuclear Fusion Programme
2022-06-17 11:30 - 13:00 | Online Event
Find out about the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s STEP nuclear fusion programme.
Background
Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) is a UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) programme that will demonstrate the ability to generate 100 MW net electricity from fusion. It will also determine how the plant will be maintained through its operational life and prove the potential for the plant to produce its own fuel.The first phase of the programme is to produce a concept design by 2024. It will be a spherical tokamak, connected to the National Grid and producing net energy, although it is not expected to be a commercially operating plant at this stage.
Energy storage
Spherical fusion reactors require powerful magnetic fields to confine and control the extremely hot plasma of fusion fuels. The confinement and heating processes are very energy intensive until a “burning” plasma has been formed when the energy generated by the plasma exceeds the energy required to sustain it. Once the plasma is extinguished the energy contained within the systems can be released either as electrical or thermal energy. The STEP prototype’s objective to generate net energy requires power station scale electricity generation. These have significant thermal requirements for start-up and shut down. A mixture of electrical, chemical, and mechanical storage solutions will be required to manage the rate and quantity.
Hydrogen Fusion reactors use three different isotopes of hydrogen (protium, deuterium and tritium). Deuterium and Tritium reactions provide the greater energy gain with the lowest operating conditions. Tritium is a radioactive isotope (with a ½ life ~ 12.3 year and decays to Helium and a weak beta) very expensive and difficult to source. Energy efficient purification and reprocessing of all tritiated streams will be required, this has the potential to generate large quantities of protium (hydrogen with an atomic mass of 1). The UKAEA is seeking expertise in the dissociation, recombination, and storage of protium.
Event Programme

Introduction to UKAEA and nuclear fusion programme
Introduction to the challenges of Tritium breeding and energy extraction
Introduction to the wider challenges, including materials, linking to hydrogen and energy storage and the power system
Question and Answer and discussion session

This webinar takes place on Friday 17th June from 11:30 – 13:00 and is exclusively for staff and students at Energy Research Accelerator partner universities (Aston, Birmingham, Cranfield, Keele, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham and Warwick) and the British Geological Survey.

HyDEX Engagement Event with parliamentarians
2022-06-15 | House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW, United Kingdom
HyDEX Engagement Event with parliamentarians, at the House of Lords, Westminster, London.
