Hydrogen Training for Decision Makers

Course Content

This is an on-line course delivered over half a day via Microsoft TEAMS, addressing the emerging potential of a Hydrogen Economy. This enables decision makers to gain awareness and a reference point for the key themes associated with the use and transition to hydrogen in your business context, relative to the existing UK Gas Infrastructure. 

• Challenge of decarbonising energy in the UK
• Environmental benefits of using hydrogen as a fuel
• Global overview of strategies, market development and potential infrastructure
• Development timeframes and costs
• Hydrogen:
• Principles of combustion
• Safety issues
• Production, storage, transport
• Economic factors
• Principles of natural gas to hydrogen conversion and appliance modification
• Business risks and opportunities from switching from natural gas to hydrogen

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the challenge of decarbonising energy in the UK
• Know the environmental benefits of using hydrogen as a fuel
• Know the global market potential for hydrogen
  Know the principles of hydrogen combustion and safety issues relating to hydrogen
• Understand the impact of hydrogen on legislation and standards
• Know the fundamental principles of hydrogen production
• Know how hydrogen varies with storage scale
• Know how to transport hydrogen
• Know the principal factors relating to appliance modification for conversion to hydrogen
• Know the principal economic factors of hydrogen production and use
• Know the risks and opportunities that hydrogen represents to companies looking to decarbonise their operations

The course is delivered in a very interactive style and as such necessitates smaller groups – maximum 10-15 people. The importance of such groupings is as follows:

• An opportunity to engage multiple perspectives and work areas across your company in a consistent manner on this important topic, to create a base level of understanding.
• A safe and inclusive forum for debating differing perspectives on hydrogen, with Industry leading technical expertise and thought leadership
• Enables questions and answers to be discussed freely throughout course delivery
• Breakout and discussion throughout the day with the trainers – within the digital delivery

The course provides an overview of national and EU hydrogen strategies, global market development and potential infrastructure development timeframes and costs.

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