The findings of a Caribbean Sustainable Energy & Innovation Institute led research project focusing on the sustainable production of hydrogen as a fuel for domestic cooking, will form the basis of presentations and discussions at an International Hydrogen Conference and Exhibition being hosted by UTech, Ja at its Papine Campus on November 3 - 4, 2015. The conference is first of its kind in the Caribbean region.
In 2012, the Caribbean Sustainable Energy & Innovation Institute at UTech, Jamaica began a research project on "The Application of Solar-Powered Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) Electrolysers for the Sustainable Production of Hydrogen Gas as Fuel for Domestic Cooking," along with research partners from Brunel University, United Kingdom, University of the West Indies, Bureau of Standards Jamaica and the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining. The research project is co-funded by the European Union under the ACP Caribbean & Pacific Research Programme for Sustainable Development.
Dr. Ruth Potopsingh, Associate Vice President, Caribbean Sustainable Energy & Innovation Institute in the School of Graduate Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship, UTech, Ja., and coordinator of the conference, explains that the issue of hydrogen as a sustainable energy source is particularly relevant to Jamaica at this time. She points out that "the use of hydrogen whether for cooking at the household or commercial level, clean transportation fuel or utility scale applications such as power to gas, are options which the Caribbean region needs to further examine."
Conference presentations by local and international research experts will highlight global trends in hydrogen as a key enabling pathway for renewable energy applications. Thematic areas to be examined include hydrogen from renewable resources; environmental issues and climate change; hydrogen as a transportation fuel, the future of hydrogen technology; hydrogen storage systems, education and public awareness for using hydrogen as a domestic fuel, case studies, on successful hydrogen projects, among other areas.
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