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Workshop/seminar on hydrogen including sector couplings for knowledge exchange

A visualisation of the project, focusing on the system perspective of the Ovako Hofors Hydrogen faci
Ovako Hofors hydrogen project overview, a system perspective. Image: Teodor Elmfeldt et al. 2024

This event targets researchers at KTH and industrial and research collaborators active in hydrogen research, focusing on system integration and sector couplings. Researchers from Luleå Technical University have been invited to the seminar and will share their ongoing work, and researchers at KTH will share examples from recent research and demonstration projects like the Ovako facility.

Time: Mon 2024-02-19 10.00 - 15.00

Location: Teknikringen 1, Arenan & Torget, KTH Campus

Language: English

Contact:

Susanna Berglund subergl@kth.se

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This event targets researchers at KTH and industrial and research collaborators active in hydrogen research, focusing on system integration and sector couplings. Researchers from Luleå Technical University have been invited to the seminar and will share their ongoing work, and researchers at KTH will share examples from recent research.

Program 

9.30 – 10.00 Coffee and mingle

10.00 – 10.30 Welcome and introduction
Lina Bertling Tjernberg, Director KTH Energy platform
Keynote: Göran Nyström, Ovako AB
Keynote: Mikael Nordlander, Vattenfall

10.30 – 10.45 Joakim Lundgren Deputy Director Centre for Hydrogen Energy System Sweden CH2ESS
CH2ESS is a research and knowledge initiative at Luleå University of Technology with a focus on hydrogen use in industrial processes and energy systems, in close collaboration with Swedish industry. Read more here.

10.45 – 11.00 Fredrik Granberg Project Leader LTU Green Fuels
LTU Green Fuels is one of the world's most advanced pilot plants for the gasification of various bioproducts to syngas and green fuels. The focus is on replacing fossil oil with green fuels. Read more here.

11.00 – 11.10 Break

11.10 – 11.25 Teodor Elmfeldt KTH, Ovako Hofors: Hydrogen-heated steel
Additional participants: Göran Nyström Ovako and Lina Bertling Tjernberg KTH. Studying the first industrial deployment of hydrogen for industrial heat, with system perspective and a focus on sector coupling such as increased flexibility for the power grid and hydrogen for transportation. Read more here.

11.25 – 11.35 Qianwen Xu KTH, Power electronics & Hydrogen
Using hydrogen electrolyzer power electronics to balance high share of wind power.
Read more here.

11.35 – 11.50 Klas Engvall KTH, Bio-FlexGen
Highly-efficient and flexible integration of biomass and renewable hydrogen for low-cost combined heat and power generation to the energy system. Read more here.

11.50 – 12.05 Göran Lindbergh Director KTH PUSH
The main goal of this research centre is to address scientific and technical hurdles impeding the widespread use of hydrogen in sustainable energy systems, by combining activities on production, storage and distribution, and use of hydrogen in a single coordinated research effort. Read more here.

12.05 – 13.30 Lunch with roundtable discussions
Selected topics from the day will be assigned a room each for you to join during lunch. When it’s time for dessert, take the chance to rotate to another topic.

13.30 – 13.45 Follow-up lunch

13.45 – 14.30 Panel: Industrial hydrogen
Discussing and digesting the contents of today, focusing on the connection between research and deployment of hydrogen solutions.

Participants:
Göran Nyström, Ovako AB
Mikael Nordlander, Vattenfall
Cecilia Wallmark, LTU
Lina Bertling Tjernberg, KTH
Jazaer Dawody, Energimyndigheten
Moderator: Teodor Elmfeldt

14.30 – 14.40 Short break

14.40 – 15.00 Conclusions and finishing reflections from the day