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Trends in Green Chemistry
ISSN: 2471-9889
October 05-06, 2018
Barcelona, Spain
Renewable Energy 2018
Page 14
2 nd Edition of Global Summit on
Renewable Energy &
Emerging Technologies
As the world turns towards a renewable energy dominated
energy landscape, the storage of intermittent energy
becomes ever more important. Balancing supply and demand is
crucial with many intermittent sources not correlating with user
requirements. Additionally the energy landscape is changing
from a traditional, one to many approach where one power
station delivers energy to a multitude of houses and businesses,
to more distributive many to many approach where the network
is highly complex with multiple sources big and small feeding
into the systemandmany consumers all needing to be balanced.
This talk will look at how hydrogen holds a potential solution to
decoupling of supply and demand and the reconfiguration of the
network. All renewable energy sources that are not immediately
consumed can be converted into hydrogen which acts as a
universal energy vector storing and distributing the energy where
needed. We will show how new water splitting technology can
achieve low cost, high efficiency energy transition and how a
green hydrogen smart grid has been operated in Swansea. We
will also look at potential projects around the world that could
benefit from installations.
Recent Publications
1. Jones D R, Al-Masry W A and Dunnill C W (2018)
Hydrogen-enriched natural gas as a domestic fuel:
An analysis based on flash-back and blow-off limits
for domestic natural gas appliances within the UK.
Sustainable Energy & Fuels DOI: 10.1039/C7SE00598A.
2. Phillips R and Dunnill C (2016) Zero gap alkaline
electrolysis cell design for renewable energy storage as
hydrogen gas. RSC Advances 6:100643-100651.
3. Phillips R, Edwards A, Rome B, Jones D and Dunnill
C W (2017) Minimising the ohmic resistance of an
alkaline electrolysis cell through effective cell design.
International Journal ofHydrogenEnergy42(38):23986-
23994.
Biography
Charles William Dunnill is now a Senior Lecturer at the Energy Safety Re-
search Institute at Swansea University. He has completed MSc in Chem-
istry from Nottingham and PhD in Nanomaterial’s from Glasgow Univer-
sity. His previous posts at UCL Chemistry include a prestigious Ramsay
Fellowship and a Post-doc in photocatalytic self-cleaning materials and
photocatalysts. He runs a teamof researchers interested in the sustainable
hydrogen innovation and technology.
Green hydrogen smart grids and alkaline
electrolysis the low cost high efficiency
solution
Charles William Dunnill
Swansea University, UK
Charles William Dunnill, Trends in Green chem 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9889-C3-013