Hydrogen at RGU: expertise, projects and facilities.

Faisal, Nadimul

Abstract

In this presentation Professor Nadimul Faisal highlights some of the hydrogen research projects being undertaken at Robert Gordon University to support the development of renewable hydrogen technologies needed to support the Scottish Government's ambition of 5GW installed hydrogen production capacity by 2030. The testing facility, Hy-One, which will be established at the NSC, is a comprehensive one-stop hydrogen storage testing facility, providing plug-and-play testing and demonstrations for hydrogen storage systems and prototypes. Scalable metamaterial thermally sprayed catalyst coatings for nuclear reactor based high temperature solid oxide water electrolysis (METASIS), aims to design, fabricate, and test thermally sprayed novel large-scale and large-length scale meta-surface area coatings for anode supported solid oxide water electrolysis (SOWE) cell in the steam electrolysis mode for hydrogen production over a temperature range of 800 °C to 900 °C. Thermally sprayed coatings for thermochemical electrolysis at nuclear reactors (THERMOSIS) project aims to develop solution for zero emission hydrogen production by designing, fabricating, and testing thermally sprayed novel large metasurface area coatings for anode supported solid oxide steam electrolysis (SOSE). This will be an innovative electrolyser catalyst and cell design that will warrant efficient hydrogen production with stable structure for high temperature operation at nuclear reactor. H2Gen Hydrogen Fuel Cell UPS (EETF) is to develop a novel, scalable Hydrogen-cell based modular Energy Storage System (H2GEN) to eliminate the usage of Lead-Acid battery in UPS in public buildings, mitigated power supply interruptions, and provide storage for excess renewable generated energy to be used or sold to grid during peak demand.

Citation

FAISAL, N. 2025. Hydrogen at RGU: expertise, projects and facilities. Presented at the 2025 All things hydrogen conference, 18 March 2025, Aberdeen, UK.

• Presentation Conference Type: Presentation / Talk
• Conference Name: 2025 All things hydrogen conference
• Start Date: Mar 18, 2025
• Publication Date: Mar 18, 2025
• Deposit Date: Mar 31, 2025
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 31, 2025
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Hydrogen; Hydrogen storage; Energy transition; Green hydrogen; Zero carbon production
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2767836