Canada Strategic Hydrogen R&D Network
H2CAN 2.0 brings together diverse national groups of scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians, economists, and sociologists to innovate and help in the energy transition.
As the world shifts to sustainable solutions, hydrogen is one of the many vectors to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Collaborations, partnerships, and team-playing are therefore important!
H2CAN 2.0 regroups Canadian R&D labs and groups at universities and research institutions working in the R&D hydrogen value chain from production, storage, mobility, to stationary applications.
Collaborations, partnerships, and team-playing are therefore important!
The main research themes include:
Production: Research into various methods for producing carbon-free hydrogen, including the potential to use excess electricity and waste heat from nuclear power plants for high-temperature electrolysis.
Storage: Exploration of reliable, safe, and efficient methods for hydrogen storage, including potential underground storage in geological formations.
Transport: Addressing the challenges and infrastructure requirements related to the safe and efficient transport of hydrogen.
Usage/Applications: Focusing on specific applications where hydrogen can have the greatest impact on decarbonization, such as heavy-duty mobility (trucks, long-distance marine vessels) and industrial processes (ammonia, methanol, and steel production).
Cross-cutting activities within H2CAN 2.0 also covers:
System Integration: Integration of hydrogen systems and components into existing or future energy infrastructures (e.g., microgrids).
Life Cycle Analysis: Comprehensive studies to quantify the environmental impacts and ensure the overall sustainability of new hydrogen technologies.
Resources and circularity: Critical minerals sustainably sourced with high recycling rates, exploration of natural hydrogen, exploration of ultrabasic rock deposits, recovery/partial substitution of PGM (platinum group metals), waste-to-hydrogen, water management, material efficiency and recycling and industrial symbiosis.
Socio-economic, Policies, Territories and Safety Aspects: Analysis of the technical, economic, social acceptability, and societal issues, including standardization, safety aspects related to the wider deployment of hydrogen systems.
Workforce training: Developing and training skilled workers for the growing hydrogen economy, which includes creating new job opportunities and providing transition pathways for workers, filling skill shortages/gaps in expertise, especially in the standardization area in which a need for standardized training benchmarks and qualifications across the industry is urgently required.
WHAT WE DO
Consolidate our R&D efforts
Seek funding at federal and international levels
Share existing and build new R&D infrastructures
Facilitate high quality R&D of components and testing and validation of hydrogen-related systems
Exchange and share researchers at national and international levels
Represent “H2 R&D Canada” at international events
OUR NETWORK
