mercredi Août 6, 2025

CRH2: What’s in Your Hydrogen?

Résumé du webinaire

As hydrogen use cases expand beyond traditional applications (upgrading, refining, and fertilizer production) to include mobility, heat and power, and energy storage, there is a growing realization that not all hydrogen products are created equal. Impurities like fixed gases, sulfur compounds, halogenates, hydrocarbons, and others can have harmful or undesirable effects on equipment and final products, depending on their types and amounts, highlighting the importance of testing to ensure hydrogen products meet the quality requirements for their intended uses.

Several methods to remove impurities from hydrogen are commercially available, and global standards have been developed to describe accepted hydrogen product grades and specifications for different uses and applications. In this webinar, InnoTech Alberta’s Adam Malcolm (Director, Applied Chemistry Services) and Martin Huard (Hydrogen Lead) will discuss the importance of hydrogen purification and hydrogen quality testing, providing an introduction to hydrogen purification, product specification, and quality testing.

Topics will include:

  • Types of impurities in hydrogen products
  • Common sources of impurities
  • Hydrogen purification methods
  • Effects of impurities in various applications
  • Hydrogen purity / quality standards
  • Hydrogen quality testing

Personnes invitées

Zachary Cunningham

Responsable Pôle de l’hydrogène de la région de Calgary

Zachary (Zak) Cunningham est le responsable du Pôle de l’hydrogène de la région de Calgary au sein de l’Accélérateur de Transition. Il est titulaire d’une maîtrise en développement énergétique durable de l’université de Calgary, d’une licence en ingénierie pétrolière de l’université UCSI de Kuala Lumpur et d’un diplôme en technologie de l’ingénierie pétrolière du NAIT. Ses recherches portent sur le développement de l’hydrogène dans le Nord et sur la quantification et la réduction des émissions de méthane.

Avant d’entamer des études supérieures, Zachary a passé beaucoup de temps sur des plates-formes de forage et de reconditionnement dans l’ouest du Canada et au large de la Malaisie, où il a occupé diverses fonctions, ce qui lui a permis d’acquérir une solide expérience pratique de l’industrie pétrolière et gazière en amont. Avant d’étudier à l’université de Calgary, il a passé près d’une décennie à l’étranger, en Asie du Sud-Est, et s’intéresse vivement aux activités de plein air et à la durabilité.

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Personnes invitées

Adam Malcolm

Director of Applied Chemistry Services, InnoTech Alberta

Adam Malcolm is the Director of Applied Chemistry Services at InnoTech Alberta, where he works with a team of multidisciplinary researchers and technologists to provide professional lab services to the private and public sectors. He has a Masters degree in Chemistry from the University Alberta, having specialized in physical and synthetic inorganic chemistry. He has 16 years of experience across both private and public sectors, in the field and in the lab, managing projects ranging from academic, to pilot scale, up to full-scale chemistry. Adam will also jump at any chance to show you pictures of his kids, or talk shop on photography, comic books, or the Microsoft Excel World Championships.

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Martin Huard

Hydrogen Lead, Innotech Alberta

Martin Huard is the Hydrogen Lead at InnoTech Alberta, coordinating the creation of test facilities and services for clean hydrogen research and technology development. Martin has worked at InnoTech Alberta since 2014. He is a member of the Canadian Mirror Committee for the ISO/TC 197/SC 1 Hydrogen at scale and horizontal energy systems Technical Committee. Martin also participates as a Technical Advisor on the Carbon Capture & Conversion Facilities Working Group at Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA). InnoTech’s Hydrogen team supports client technology development projects on H2 production, product development for elemental carbon produced by methane pyrolysis, H2 storage, materials testing in H2 service conditions, H2 fuel quality testing, H2 fueled device testing, and H2 codes and standards research.

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