HYDROGENi

Are you a PhD student, researcher or industry professional working with hydrogen? Then join us for an exclusive, week-long summer school on hydrogen embrittlement! 🗓️ 23-27 June 2025 📌 Realfagbygget, NTNU, Trondheim Hydrogen embrittlement poses a persistent and critical challenge to hydrogen's role in the green energy transition. This summer school will equip participants with cutting-edge insights into hydrogen embrittlement that are necessary to addressing this challenge, in both academia and industry. This summer school is organised jointly by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Uppsala University, under the auspices of HYDROGENi, SINTEF and the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS)'s Technical Committee on Hydrogen Embrittlement and Transport (ESIS TC21). Click below to find out more 👇 Haiyang Yu, Jianying He, Xavier Feaugas, Motomichi Koyama, Xu Lu, Zhiliang Zhang, Milos Djukic, Vigdis Olden

💻 Check out my last contribution to the discussion on the socially relevant aspects of the use of #AI in #Hydrogen technologies. For those who do not read Norwegian, this is the overview: In a recent article on Teknisk Ukeblad, NTNU researchers Nicola Paltrinieri and Rita V. d'Oliveira Bouman (PhD) discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance hydrogen safety. They acknowledge public scepticism towards both hydrogen and #AI but emphasize that, when properly managed, #hydrogen could be as safe as other energy sources. #AI, serving as an advanced tool, can be programmed to improve safety measures. However, challenges remain, such as ensuring #AI prioritizes human safety over productivity and profit. The authors highlight three potential applications of AI in #hydrogen safety: a) Reducing false alarms to focus on genuine threats, b)Conducting inspections of high-risk components, c) Analyzing past incidents to predict patterns and root causes. https://lnkd.in/d3qMa3gE

We're joining our fellow FMEs at the 2025 FME Conference! This year, we'll contribute to two sessions focusing on the transformation of new and existing industry in order, in accordance with achieving our climate goals: 👉 "Make existing energy-intensive industry green" (session 1-A), and 👉 "Create competitive and green new industries" (session 2-A). See you there! 📅 3 April 2025, 08:15 - 17:00 📌 Scandic Lerkendal, Trondheim and online NTNU Energy Transition Initiative (NETI), Gunhild Allard Reigstad

Excited to share that our new article is now out in the journal of physical and chemical reference data! (Where it was chosen as the cover image!) In this work, we present a new equation of state for solid argon which can be used to predict the freeze out of argon in argon-hydrogen mixtures. A highly relevant feature for the development of hydrogen liquefaction. I'm grateful to my supervisors/co-authors for all their hard work and guidance. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/dx4cVP4X

If you want to understand the physical and operational restrictions of using hydrogen energy systems on ships, our publication "Essentials of Hydrogen Storage and Power Systems for Green Shipping" breaks it all down. It covers everything from storage design and fuel cell integration to regulatory gaps, offering practical solutions for working within maritime constraints. This was a joined collaboration between me, professor Mehdi Zadeh and professor Benjamin Lagemann of the department of Marine Technology (IMT) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The research was part of the HYDEOGENi program.

In 2024, HYDROGENi produced a study mapping the materials that come into contact with hydrogen and ammonia, in order to ensure material integrity throughout the hydrogen value chain. “We need to ensure that structural metallic materials in the hydrogen value chain, like carbon manganese steels, stainless steels and nickel alloys have sufficient resistance to hydrogen embrittlement, because it will reduce ductility and impair fracture and fatigue properties,” said Vigdis Olden (SINTEF Industry), who leads HYDROGENi's “Material integrity” work package (WP4.1) and was the main coordinator of the study. Click below for more information 👇

Å velge riktige materialer i alle deler av verdikjeden for hydrogen er avgjørende for infrastrukturens levetid og sikkerhet. Både hydrogen og ammoniakk kan nemlig påvirke materialer negativt, blant annet ved å forårsake hydrogensprøhet og korrosjon i metaller. Under ledelse av seniorforsker Vigdis Olden har HYDROGENi kartlagt utfordringer og kunnskapsgap som finnes for materialer i kontakt med hydrogen og ammoniakk i hele verdikjeden. Studiet er gjort i nært samarbeid med industrien. #hydrogen #ammoniakk #materialvalg #forskning #bærekraftigenergi

If the global shipping industry were a nation, it would rank fifth in the world for the most CO2 emissions. In order to achieve our climate goals, we need to decarbonise shipping - but this won't happen over night. Shipowners won't invest in fully green ships until they can purchase low- and zero-emission fuels easily and at competitive prices. However, these fuels will only be produced at this scale once there is the demand for them. To solve this chicken-and-egg situation, shipowners should learn from the work to retrofit Equinor's offshore supply ship, Viking Energy, which will enable the ship to use alternative fuels when they become available. HYDROGENi is also a part of this project, and will support the conversion of Viking Energy's engine to run on ammonia by addressing key R&D questions. Click below to read the full article in Dagens Næringsliv on the path to green shipping, by HYDROGENi Director Nils Røkke (SINTEF Energy Research), HYDROGENi Coordinator Kyrre Sundseth (SINTEF Industry) and Research Manager Valland Anders (SINTEF Ocean) - in Norwegian 👇 SINTEF

On Wednesday 4 December, NTNU Energy Transition Initiative (NETI) will hold a seminar on hydrogen export from Norway. Norwegian exports are dominated today by fossil fuels, which is risky considering the likelihood of decreased demand in a future, decarbonised European energy system. This seminar will highlight the potential of future hydrogen exports as a decarbonisation option for Europe, and discuss implications of developments in the European energy system on Norwegian exports. The seminar will feature presentations by Julian Straus (SINTEF Energy Research) and Alessandro Campari (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering). Both SINTEF and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are research partners in HYDROGENi. Click below for more details 👇 🗓️ 4 December, 15:00-16:00 📌 Gruva, Gløshaugen

Live from European Hydrogen Week! 🎦🟢 Today, HYDROGENi Director Nils Røkke participated in a panel discussion on 𝘗𝘳𝘦-𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. His key message was increased cooperation in R&D at a global scale in order to achieve our climate goals 👇 "I've just arrived here from COP29 in Baku at European Hydrogen Week. I've just been in a session where we talked about the importance of pre-normative research for standardisation. My key message is that we need to cooperate more in research, also at a global scale, which binds it back to our activities in Baku actually: how can we work more closely together to develop standards that make sense, and that make sense from a climate point of view, so we can accelerate the hydrogen economy to fulfill the EU targets of getting to climate neutrality by 2050." SINTEF