June 16TH 2021
This Impact Breakfast presents several scientists in the field of renewable energy. The talks will borrow from a wide range of topics, from circular carbon economy to harnessing the power of the sun.
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Our host and moderator for the morning is Vebjørn Bakken, Director of UiO: Energy.
PROGRAM
08:00
Doors open in Forum - Forskningsparken. Breakfast and testing.
09:00
Innledning ved dagens ordstyrer Vebjørn Bakken - Director of UiO:Energy
09:05
Europe's Green Deal - towards a circular carbon economy. Unni Olsbye, Professor – The Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo
09:18
Solar hydrogen - Adapting sunlight to fit the technology. Per-Anders Stensby Hansen, Researcher - Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology Chemistry, University of Oslo.
09:31
Production of clean, fuel cell quality hydrogen from natural gas with integrated CO2 capture. Arild Selvig, CEO ZEG Power
09:44
High performance electrolysersfor green hydrogen production. Magnus Thomassen, Chief Product Officer, HYSTAR
09:57
Closing words by Vebjørn Bakke
10.00
Program ends.
More about the speakers and their presentations:
Unni Olsbye, Professor – The Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo. Europe's Green Deal - towards a circular carbon economy
The European Green Deal is a plan to make EU's economy sustainable. As part of the Green Deal, EU aims to be climate neutral in 2050, e.g. by decarbonising the energy sector and decoupling economic growth from resource use.
This talk focuses on Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) - the process of capturing CO2 from industrial sources and recycling it for further usage. This aims to provide breakthrough catalyst and process technology for the conversion of CO2 to fuels and chemicals. A successful project will contribute to a circular economy and the replacement of fossil fuels, leading to a decrease in CO2 emissions.
Per-Anders Stensby Hansen, Researcher - Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology Chemistry, University of Oslo.
Solar hydrogen - Adapting sunlight to fit the technology
Using sunlight for photochemical hydrogen production can be major breakthrough for the shift to green energy carriers and allows decentralized and on-site production. But a major barrier for this technology is that the best photochemical materials is transparent to most of the solar spectrum. It has proven very difficult to increase solar absorption without deteriorating the materials photochemical properties. We have therefore chosen to turn the problem around and rather say that it is the sunlight that doesn’t fit the material. In the SunUP project we aim at transforming unused sunlight into UV, thereby drastically increasing the effective utilization of sunlight by the photochemical material.
Arild Selvig, CEO - ZEG Power.
Production of clean, fuel cell quality hydrogen from natural gas with integrated CO2 capture
ZEG Power is developing systems for production of clean hydrogen based on natural gas with integrated CO2capture at a competitive price. The process is labelled Sorbent Enhanced Reforming (SER). ZEG’s proprietary technology is patent-protected and built on 2 decades of R&D. ZEG will deliver their first commercial ZEG hydrogen plant with integrated CO2 capture at Kollnes on the west coast of Norway in late 2022 - next to the Northern Lights CO2 injection and storage infrastructure currently under construction. The plant will produce approximately 1 tonne of fuel cell quality hydrogen per day with a carbon capture rate in excess of 90%
Magnus Thomassen, Chief Product Officer - HYSTAR. High performance electrolysers for green hydrogen production
Hystar is developing the next generation PEM electrolysers for green hydrogen production. The patented Hystar technology is based on 15 years of research at SINTEF an enables significantly higher hydrogen production rates than conventional electrolysers at a lower energy consumption. Hystar has recently been awarded a 16MNOK IPN project from the research council of Norway to design and construct our first prototype stack platform for MW-scale electrolysers.