The II International Conference and Exhibition “Hydrogen Storage Technologies” was held on October 28–29, 2009 (Moscow, hotel Aerostar).

The conference was attended by over 140 specialists, including 35 foreign guests: representatives of international organizations and companies, members of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy official delegations from 17 countries (Russia, the United States, European Union, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, South Africa).

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Addressing a welcoming speech to participants of the conference, Deputy Head of Federal Agency for Science and Innovation, A. V. Klimenko and the representative of the Directorate for research in the EU energy Aires Soares stressed the importance of broad information sharing and international cooperation and development of perspectiv energy technologies.

Goals and purposes

• Provision of information exchange on key technologies that could lead to breakthroughs in the field of hydrogen storage, infrastructure and security.
• Analysis of progress in the field of hydrogen technologies and to identify critical areas that require increased research in the world.
• Further development of international cooperation to solve scientific and technological challenges in hydrogen storage systems and help develop a hydrogen infrastructure in the world.
• Preparation of recommendations and Executive Committees of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy on possible action in connection with the foregoing.

Conference Topics

• International and National Programs addressing hydrogen storage technologies and related hydrogen Infrastructure
• The current state and  prospects for hydrogen technologies. Engineering problems of  hydrogen storage systems
  • Hydrogen storage technologies
  • Advanced materials and nanostructures for hydrogen storage systems
  •  System integration
  • Hydrogen infrastructure development
• Hydrogen Safety: reliability of hydrogen storage technologies, safety of components and infrastructure. Risk assessment. National  and  International  safety standards and codes, their harmonization.
• IPHE priorities and projects Hydrogen Storage-related Demonstration Activities: current status and prospects
• IPHE International collaboration in the field of hydrogen storage, hydrogen infrastructure and hydrogen safety
• Education and training

The first day was devoted to presentations of national programs and projects in the field of hydrogen storage systems. At the plenary session were given an overview of national programs in the field of hydrogen storage acring in Russia (Stanislav Malyshenko, High Temperatures, RAS), USA (Jay Keller, Sandia National Laboratories), Japan (Etsou Akiba, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Technology), Switzerland (Valentine of the ordered—Herzog, the Swiss Federal Laboratory of Materials Research and Testing), South Africa (Michael Lototskii Center certification of integrated systems and technologies), Italy (Pier Paolo Azure, National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment), and presents the results of several major projects implemented in the RRC “Kurchatov Institute” (Vladimir Fateev), High Temperatures RAS (Vasily Borzenko, Eugene Shkolnikov), Sandia National Laboratories, USA (Daniel Dedrik, Veyfgang Luo), General Motors, United States (Scott Iorgensen). The report of the Representative of the European Hydrogen Platform Mark Steen proposed review of the projects of the European Commission to develop hydrogen storage systems.

In the first day of the conference were summed up the results of the contest for the best student work on the problems of hydrogen energy. The winners were awarded commemorative diplomas and valuable gifts FASI. The winners:

• GOUVPO Moscow Power Engineering Institute (TU) (group of authors for the work “Composite nickel electrodes for alkaline electrolysis).
• RRC “Kurchatov Institute” (group of authors for the paper “Investigation of mass transfer in catalytic layers of hydrogen-air fuel cell. The role of the electrode structure” and “Synthesis and study of electrocatalysts based on graphite nanofibers for electrolytic water with a solid polymer electrolyte).
• Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics Automation (TU) (group of authors for the work of “Manufacturing technology of hydrogen storage systems with high sorption capacity and controlled desorption process based on nanoscale films of fluorocarbon”).

The section on “Education in the field of hydrogen energy”, except for matters of professional training and experience of education in the field of hydrogen energy in the high schools were represented students' best work on hydrogen energy, selected on the basis of competition.

The second day of the conference was 3 parallel sessions:

• Materials and technology of hydrogen storage systems
• System integration and hydrogen infrastructure
• Safety of hydrogen storage systems.

In these sessions were presented 34 oral and 9 poster presentations.

Anastasios Stubos (Center Demokritos, Greece) presented an overview of the work performed under the international project NESSHY, as well as on behalf of Bjorn Haubeka—Review of work done on the program “The 22 of the Agreement on the implementation of hydrogen”, International Energy Agency. The latest results of work on a number of overseas projects were presented in the reports Daniel Fruharta (France), Klaus Yvon (Switzerland), Ki-Suk Nam (South Korea), Mehmet Bursin Piskina (Turkey) and some others.

The results of Russian work performed in connection with the development of technologies for hydrogen storage and hydrogen infrastructure development, reported representatives of leading research and manufacturing centers working in this field (for High Temperatures RAS, RRC Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Moscow State University. M. Lomonosova, Federal Nuclear Center, Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry SB RAS, Institute of Catalysis. Boreskov Academy of Sciences, Perm State University, State Research Institute of Civil Aviation, Institute of Railway Transport, RSU of oil and gas after.I. Gubkin, GOUVPO MEI (TU), Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Materials Science, Institute of Fire Prevention MES of Russia, the National Association of Hydrogen Energy, “Giredmet”, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry. AV Nikolaev, Institute of Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, JSC “NIIES HydroOGK, Moscow State Industrial University). Many of the Russian reports are based on the results of work performed with the support of Rosnauka, as well as within the scientific cooperation with leading foreign research centers.

One of the most important tasks of the conference is to expand international cooperation and collaboration in research and development of hydrogen storage technologies in the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy.

Presentations were given on major international and national projects and programs as an IPHE member countries, and countries that are planning to join the IPHE in the near future.

Prospects for the development of this cooperation were discussed at a plenary round table “Prospects for international cooperation under the auspices of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE), the final day of the conference.

Presentations were made by: Cordell Sita (Ministry of Science and Technology of South Africa), Mark Steen (Joint Research Center European Commission) and Stanislav Malyshenko (High Temperatures RAS). The discussions and suggestions made by participants of the Round Table, will be presented at the next joint meeting of the Steering Committee IPHE.

In the period of the conference was organized by the exhibition “Hydrogen technology: storage and security.” 20 companies and organizations have demonstrated their scientific and technical developments in the field of hydrogen technologies. Among the participants can be noted RRC “Kurchatov Institute”, High Temperatures RAS, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Moscow State Industrial University, Central Research Institute of SET, the National Association of Hydrogen Energy, Institute of Chemical Physics.

For reviews of foreign and Russian participants of II International Conference “Hydrogen Storage Technologies” completed its task and will effectively contribute to the expansion of international cooperation and scientific and technical cooperation in this field.

Information

First International Conference “Hydrogen Storage Technologies”, organized on the initiative of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE \ IPHE), was held in Lucca (Italy) 19–22 June 2005. The conference discussed the status of development of various technologies for hydrogen storage, current challenges and opportunities of international cooperation. As a result, under the IPHE was initiated by 6 international projects, in addition to joint research on hydrogen storage, under the program of the International Energy Agency (IEA Hydrogen Agreement, draft 22).