Within the Joint Committee, issues regarding hydrogen and fuel cell technology are discussed among experts and professionally interested members.
The committee
- organizes subject-specific conferences and workshops,
- comments on relevant current issues,
- prepares publications and specialist articles,
- evaluates development levels and market potentials of technologies.
Join us now as a member and contribute to the work of the committee.
Your membership of the Joint Committee will enable you to
- join professional discussions,
- present yourself personally and contribute your views, ideas and expertise,
- upgrade your knowledge,
- gain professional support.
Your membership merely requires a technical interest in the subject, your expertise and your readiness to become actively involved. Upon request, you will initially receive guest status for a non-binding introduction.
This membership is free of charge.
Your membership of the Joint Committee for hydrogen and fuel cells offers you
- participation in the exchange of experience and the active transfer of expertise regarding essential issues associated with the Energiewende,
- many opportunities to establish and maintain networks and interdisciplinary contacts, and
- admission to national and international connections to other expert associations and organizations in the fields of science and technology.
Our Joint Committee is looking forward to meeting you!
Martin Pokojski, Martin Kleimaier
Heads of commitee V1.1
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Further information on the committee V1.1
- Exchange of information on current developments
- Assessment of technologies – development status and market potential
- Organization of topic-specific specialist conferences or workshops
- Statements on current relevant issues
- Proposals for standards / participation in the creation of standards (VDI, DKE)
- Creation of publications and specialist articles
- Cooperation with other technical committees from VDE and VDI
Hydrogen production
- Electrolyser technologies
reforming (e.g. steam reforming), biochemical production (bacteria and green algae – waste water systems), hydrogen generation by means of concentrated solar radiation (high-temperature electrolysis), hydrogen as a by-product, operating modes of hydrogen generation systems (e.g. fluctuating operation of electrolysers according to renewable energy supply)
- Hydrogen usage paths
Fuel cells (stationary, mobile, portable), H2 combustion (engines and gas turbines), process engineering (H2 as a chemical raw material)
- Hydrogen infrastructure
Transport network, distribution network, filling facilities (e.g. H2 filling station), storage
- Stack technologies (properties and current state of development)
Alkaline fuel cells (AFC), alkaline polymer fuel cells (AEMFC), phosphoric acid fuel cells (PAFC), polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEMFC, HT and NT), molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFC), solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), bidirectional systems (electrolyzer / fuel cell ), microbial fuel cell
- Fuels
Hydrogen, gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons, others
- Auxiliary units and peripherals
Gas treatment, water treatment, power electronics, control and regulation, communication technology, heat extraction
- Stationary
Emergency power supply, use in single-family homes and apartment buildings for self-supply with electricity and heat, use in trade and industry (electricity and process heat), operating modes for fuel cell CHP (heat demand-oriented, electricity demand-oriented, grid-related (control power), grid-connected and off-grid).
- Mobile
Cars, commercial vehicles, industrial trucks, rail vehicles, ships, aerospace, portable (e.g. camping, charging systems)
- Expansion of renewable generation (development tendencies in the distribution grids)
- Development of energy requirements (electricity, heat, gas)
- Network requirements
- Network connection of decentralized producers
- Electrotechnical properties of the systems
- Operation of virtual power plants, microgrids and cellular networks
- Interaction of different energy sources (sector coupling: electricity, heat, gas)
- Interaction of different applications (mobile and stationary)
- Development of costs for electrolysers and fuel cells
- Market development
- Economic (energy policy) framework (e.g. tariff structures)
- Legal framework
- Regulatory framework
- Environmental aspects (GHG savings, …)
- Certification of “green” hydrogen
- Funding programs
“Electrochemical energy storage and converters” have always been part of the subject area of department 1 “Central and decentralized generation of electrical energy”. Up to the year 2000 there was the then technical committee FA 1.5, incidentally the only technical committee besides nine departments. The ETG took into account the increasing research in the field of fuel cells by giving itself a new name in 2000 under Prof. Hartkopf, then TU Darmstadt: Technical Committee 1.5 “Fuel Cells” (today V1.1). Since then, the development of stationary and mobile fuel cells has been thematically accompanied. In addition to the development of the fuel cell, other future-oriented CHP technologies are of course also included in the considerations.
Even at the first meeting, the grid integration of stationary fuel cells emerged as a subject of controversial and lively discussions. The question arose as to how the large numbers of units aimed at by fuel cell manufacturers in private households could be integrated into the distribution network without any noteworthy effects. These questions were clarified by an ad hoc working group, which since 2002 has been called the Technical Committee V1.2 “Grid Connection and Decentralized Structures”.
In practice, the technical committees V1.1 and V1.2 almost always met together and carried out most of the work together. In the course of a merger, it made sense to work more closely with the VDI Technical Committee on Hydrogen. This cooperation later became today’s VDI-VDE joint technical committee for hydrogen and fuel cells.
Ballard Power Systems: Hersteller von Brennstoffzellensystemen
Brennstoffzelleninitiative Hessen
BEWAG Innovationspark Brennstoffzelle
Deutscher Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellen-Verband
Group Exhibit Hydrogen + Fuel Cells HANNOVER FAIR
h2stations.org – Hydrogen filling stations worldwide
HyBalance.eu – Demonstration project production of hydrogen from renewable electricity (power-to-hydrogen) and its use as vehicle fuel as well as industrial raw material
Initiative Brennstoffzelle from manufacturers and network operators
JEC (JRC-Eucar-Concawe) Well-to-Wheel analysis on alternative fuels
Kompetenznetzwerk Brennstoffzelle NRW
Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership Vehicles with fuel cells (FCEV)
Siemens PEM fuel cells for ships
Sulzer Hexis: Hersteller von BZ-Systemen
VDI Fachbereich Energietechnik
Viessmann Fuel cell and CHP
Zentrum für Brennstoffzellen Technik GmbH
Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg
Please notify us about other organizations, manufacturers or users on the subject via email.
