Schema della sezione

  • 1) INTRODUCTION
    Hydrogen: physical and chemical properties. The role of hydrogen within the energetic transition. Definition of the context within hydrogen can be used as energy vector. Comparison with the alternative fuels, and examples of hydrogen use within companies and within the maritime and port sectors.

    2) ELECTROCHEMISTRY
    Basics of electrochemistry: standards, redox reactions, and chemiphysical processes involved. The electrochemical cell.

    3) HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
    State of the art about the methods of hydrogen production. Green hydrogen production via water electrolysis: electrochemistry and thermodynamics. Electrolysers: operation and classification about the main technologies available. Scaling up from the single cell to a cell stack. State of the art of the industrial and commercial use of electrolysers.

    4) HYDROGEN STORAGE
    Hydrogen compression and liquefaction: thermodynamics and comparison of these two processes and the plants required. Compressed hydrogen storage: tanks composition and classification. Liquid hydrogen storage: tanks composition and classification. Solid hydrogen storage: thermodynamics and classification of the main storing systems via physisorption and chemisorption. State of the art of the industrial and commercial use of the hydrogen storage systems. Liquid organic hydrogen carriers.

    5) FUEL CELLS
    5.1) Electrochemistry and thermodynamics. Analysis of the main functional elements: state of the art and manufacturing techniques. Comparison about the main fuel cell technologies. Fuel cell stacks. Complements of fuel cells: unitised regenerative systems.
    5.2) State of the art of the industrial and commercial use of fuel cells. Fuel cell stacks: balance of plant and plant design. Fuel cell use in cogeneration systems.
    5.3) Degradation phenomena in fuel cell systems: electrochemistry and connection with the operative conditions

    6) ALTERNATIVE HYDROGEN USE
    Direct use of hydrogen within the internal combustion engine and alternative uses of hydrogen.

    7) CHARACTERIZATION OF ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES
    Classification of the main techniques for electrochemical characterization of fuel cells and electrolysers. Advanced characterization techniques. 

    8) HYDROGEN AND SAFETY
    The main safety issues related to the use of hydrogen as energy vector. Standards of reference.