ADVANCED HYDROGEN ENERGY SYSTEMS HENERGY - Project Workshop

on Thursday, 16 February 2017.

Overview

The HENERGY project, undertaken within EU FP7 ERAfrica partnership, contributes to the thematic field “Renewable Energies” and aims to join the best efforts of the European and African scientific communities in targeting the development of advanced high efficiency hydrogen energy systems (integrated with renewable energy sources). The project consortium is represented by six institutions from two European (Norway, Turkey) and two African (South Africa, Egypt) countries. The South African project consortium member (University of the Western Cape, UWC) is represented by HySA Systems ‘Metal Hydride’ Team hosted by South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry (SAIAMC).

The third project workshop, summarising the progress of the second year and outlining further plans for 2017, took place 1st–3rd February 2017 in Du Kloof Lodge, Paarl, South Africa. During the meeting the participants presented results of their work within the project and discussed further plans of their collaborative R&D activities. Along with the presentations from the members of the project consortium, invited participants gave interesting presentations related to the project R&D activities and the opportunities of their prolongation after finishing the project in 2017.

All the participants recognised the workshop as very successful. Special thanks were given to the HySA Systems team, for both significant contribution into the project activities, and, also for the organising this event.

The next project workshop will take place in Turkey, in September 2017.

Project Consortium

Lead Partner:

· Institute for Energy Technology / Norway	IFE

Partner Institutions:

· University of the Western Cape / South Africa	UWC
· Cairo University, Chemical Engineering Department / Egypt	CU
· HYSTORSYS AS / Norway	HSS
· CMR Prototech / Norway	PRO
· Middle East Technical University / Turkey	METI

Workshop Participants

1. Prof Volodymyr YARTYS, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Norway – Project Manager, PI of Norwegian project team (IFE), workshop co-chair.

2. Dr Mykhaylo LOTOTSKYY, HySA Systems, South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa – PI of South African project team, workshop co-chair.

3. Mr Tiyani CHAUKE, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa (invited).

4. Prof Andrei KOLESNIKOV, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa (invited).

5. Mr Irshad KHAN, Hot Platinum, South Africa (invited).

6. Dr Piotr BUJŁO, HySA Systems, , South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (invited).

7. Prof Bernard Bladergroen, South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (invited).

8. Dr Sivakumar PASUPATHI, HySA Systems, South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa – co-PI of South African project team.

9. Dr Ivar WÆRNHUS, Prototech, Norway – member of Norwegian project team (PRO).

10. Mr Doğancan SARI, Middle East Technical University, Turkey – member of Turkish project team (METU).

11. Dr Moegamat Wafeeq DAVIDS, HySA Systems, SAIAMC, UWC, South Africa – member of South African project team.

12. Mr Jonathan GOH, HySA Systems, SAIAMC, UWC, South Africa – member of South African project team.

13. Dr Serge NYALLANG NYAMSI, HySA Systems, South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa – member of South African project team (UWC).

14. Dr Lydia PICKERING, HySA Systems, South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa – member of South African project team (UWC).

Absentee:

15. Dr Roman DENYS, Hystorsys, Norway– PI of Norwegian project team (HSS).

16. Prof Tarek MOUSTAFA, Cairo University, Egypt – PI of Egyptian project team (CU).