Tackling the material challenges in hydrogen economy - VTT ProperScan part III
How to ensure safety and avoid costly material failures in hydrogen storage, transportation and industrial processes?
In this third part of webinar series held on June 4th at 14:00–15:00 EEST we will continue discussing the hydrogen related material challenges in hydrogen storage and transportation applications as well as designing completely new components and processes for hydrogen environment.
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About the webinar
Existing and new industrial processes can be transformed to operate with hydrogen but safety aspect needs to be considered in a new way. Hydrogen gas is a highly flammable material and using it as a feed stock or as an energy vector is a challenge that needs to be tackled carefully.
In addition to safety, it is crucial to consider how changes in processes may affect the durability, reliability and maintainability of infrastructure, machinery, and equipment. All of this requires a profound understanding of materials and their performance.
This webinar consists of VTT scientists' insights about hydrogen related material challenges and how VTT can help you make right choices and avoid material failures resulting in costly down-time.
Is this for me?
This webinar is useful for all companies who
- design and/or operate hydrogen storage solutions
- design components for new hydrogen based industrial solutions
- are planning steps to transform existing operations towards hydrogen economy
- need to rethink maintenance plan to accommodate for new unknown factors
- want to avoid costly surprises.
Agenda
- Introduction – Pekka Pohjanne, Lead, Materials for new technologies
- Caverns and shafts for H2 storages – Pasi Valkokari, Senior Scientist
- Hydrogen safety: application examples – Tero Välisalo, Research Scientist
- Tackling challenging material design – VTT ProperTune material modelling – Tomi Suhonen, Principal Scientist
- Q&A
Speakers
He has over 30 years of experience related to materials development, performance, and life assessment of components for process industries, power production and offshore applications. During his career, he has been principal investigator and project manager in a many national and EU projects and has authored and co-authored more than 100 journal articles, conference papers and reports. He is also active in European networks like Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative (EMIRI), where he is a VTT representative.
Tero has over 25 years of expertise in risk management and system safety across diverse industries and public sector applications. His responsibilities have encompassed machine and process safety, as well as occupational safety in workplaces. In the past 5 years, Tero has concentrated on hydrogen safety, working on various projects related to hydrogen production, distribution, storage, and usage.
M.Sc. (Tech.) Pasi Valkokari, joined VTT at 1999. His current research activities include the life cycle management of industrial systems, industrial service development and asset management approaches supporting circular economy. He has also coordinated significant ecosystemic research projects funded by Business Finland and one of those is HUG – Hydrogen Underground.
Tomi Suhonen is a Principal Scientist and Manager of VTT ProperTune a multiscale materials modeling concept at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He has over 20 years' experience in scientific research related to advanced materials and has published more than 90 scientific papers and holds several international patents.