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DocumentsINTERNATIONAL FORUM ON HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENERGY PRODUCTIONThe world today is facing the negative anthropogenic impact on the environment caused by the development of the world economy. The need to create ecologically clean and effective power engineering is becoming urgent, and the Group of Eight, a club of the world’s most industrialized countries, is going to address this global problem. Hydrogen power engineering has recently moved to the fore as a key solution to energy and ecological problems of our civilization. Hydrogen is an ecologically pure and renewable energy carrier. Many countries are currently considering it as an option. The International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE) was set up in November 2003 to coordinate the efforts in this direction on the initiative of the G8 heads of state. IPHE unites 17 countries, including Russia. The forthcoming Forum to be held in 2006, with Russia presiding over the G8, will demonstrate the most effective and rational ways of using hydrogen technologies for energy production, which will ensure the energy security and steady advance of civilization. The participants in the Forum will exchange information on possible directions of international cooperation; discuss potential international projects; and demonstrate achievements made by scientists and industrial plants in the use of hydrogen technologies for energy production. The Forum will suggest to the G8 heads of state the most effective ways of developing hydrogen power engineering. It will draft a series of major international agreements, which will considerably change the strategy and scope of alternative energy technologies in this country. Forum topics: - Environmental and socio-economic aspects of hydrogen energy development Current situation and the dynamics of the environment change; Modeling the new energy technologies mitigating effect on the environment; Possible negative trends and the ways for diminution of their impact; Forecasts of the socio-economic development under the transition to new, particularly hydrogen-related, energy technologies. - New technologies for hydrogen production Newest technologies of hydrogen production from different sources: fossil fuels, biomass, advanced electrolysis, thermo-, plasma-, photo- and photo electrochemical cycles. - Hydrogen storage and distribution Traditional cryogenic and metal-hydride technologies; ultramodern technologies of hydrogen storage in carbon nanostructures; Problems of long-distance hydrogen transportation. - Fuel cells Latest accomplishments in fuel cells and their applications in mobile and stationary power units; Problems of portable fuel cells development and production. - Hydrogen power units and infrastructure Projects on further development of the nanotechnologies and new materials for hydrogen energy applications. - Nanotechnologies and new materials for the hydrogen energy Complex solutions for hydrogen use in stationary energy systems; Configurations of peripheral and auxiliary equipment for such use. - Safety, regulation, codes and standards Exchange of views on possible ways of safe production, storage and use of hydrogen; Overcoming the psychological barriers and training hydrogen end users as an important safety aspect; Opportunities for introduction of agreed unified safety standards for hydrogen equipment - Education Domestic and foreign educational and retraining programs on the principal issues of hydrogen energy; School introductory courses; Awards to young scientists and “master classes” led by the world leading experts at the International youth conference. |
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