Waterstof als energiedrager
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Avondlezing door prof.dr. Ad van Wijk, georganiseerd door de Rotterdamsche Chemische Kring.
Samenvatting
In 1874 schreef Jules Verne in zijn boek ‘The Mysterious Island’ het al. “Ja mijn vrienden, ik ben er van overtuigd dat water op een dag als brandstof zal worden gebruikt en dat waterstof(…) een onuitputtelijke bron van warmte en licht zal vormen!” Hij was een visionair maar krijgt het nu toch bij het rechte eind. Maar waarom nu pas, en welke rol gaat waterstof dan spelen in een duurzaam energiesysteem? Waterstof, net zoals elektriciteit, is namelijk geen energiebron maar een energiedrager, maar waarom hebben we die energiedrager nodig? In mijn lezing ga ik in op deze systeem rol van waterstof en hoe waterstof kan worden gemaakt, vervoerd, opgeslagen en gebruikt.
Curriculum vitae
Ad van Wijk is part-time Professor Future Energy Systems at TU Delft, the Netherlands. He is guest professor at KWR Water Research Institute to develop and implement the research program Energy and Water. He is special advisor to Hydrogen Europe, representing European industry, national associations and research centers to develop European hydrogen policies with the EU commission. He is hydrogen ambassador at the ‘New Energy Coalition’ to realize the green hydrogen economy in the Northern Netherlands. And he holds several advisory and supervisory board positions.
Van Wijk has studied physics and did his Ph-D on Wind Energy and Electricity Production at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He worked as an Researcher and Associate Professor, between 1983 and 1997 in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Utrecht University.
In 1984, van Wijk founded the company Ecofys, which eventually grew into Econcern. Econcern developed many new sustainable energy products, services and projects. Examples include the 120 MW offshore wind farm Princess Amalia in the North Sea, several multi-MW solar farms in Spain, a solar cell manufacturing plant Solland and a bio-methanol plant in the Netherlands.
Since 2011 van Wijk is appointed as professor Future Energy Systems at TU Delft. His research focus on the energy systems of the future. Especially he will do research on hydrogen energy systems and fuel cell cars and has realized ‘’the Green Village’’ at the TU Delft campus.
Van Wijk achieved many important prizes for excellent entrepreneurship. Amongst others he was Dutch entrepreneur of the year in 2007 and Dutch top-executive in 2008.
Van Wijk was honored by KWR, by appointing him Honorary Fellow in 2018 Van Wijk has published many books, scientific articles and reports. Amongst others:
- ‘How to boil an egg’, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-60750-989-9,
- ‘Welcome to the Green Village’, 2013 ISBN 978-1-61499-283-7,
- ‘Our Car as Power Plant’ 2014 ISBN 978-1-61499-376-6,
- ‘3D printing with biomaterials’, 2015 ISBN 978-1-61499-485-5,
- ‘The Green Hydrogen Economy in the Northern Netherlands’, 2017 ISBN 978-90-826989-0-9,
- ‘Solar Power to the People’, 2017 ISBN 978-1-61499-832-7 (online)
- ‘Hydrogen, the key to the energy transition’, 2018 article in book
- ‘Hydrogen, the bridge between Africa and Europe’, 2019 article in book
- ‘A North Africa – Europe Hydrogen Manifesto’, 2019 DII desert energy report
- ‘Green Hydrogen for a European Green Deal; A 2x40 GW Initiative’, 2020 ISBN 978- 90827637-1-3
All these publications can be downloaded from his website www.profadvanwijk.com
Follow Ad van Wijk at twitter @advanwijk or via his website.
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