SAR_Task22_Japan_Oct.. - Hydrogen Implementing Agreement

in the Task 22 meetings have been continuously stressed by the OA. This is one of the
most important reasons for the strong interest to attend the Task 22 meetings by the
international leading experts in the field. As usual there were very good discussions. The
presentations and discussions in the Engineering/Applied hydrogen storage session gave
an overview of different important applications of hydrogen storage materials, and with a
strong emphasize on the important link between research related to materials development
and applications.
New future hydrogen storage task (to follow task 22 after November 2012) was discussed
in a special session on Monday evening. The Chair of the IEA HIA ExCo, Dr. Jan Jensen
participated in this session. He gave an overview of the IEA HIA as an introduction to the
discussion. It is a strong interest from the Experts to establish a new task following Task
22. The proposed title is “Hydrogen-based energy storage technologies” The first proposal
for a new task will be prepared by the OA for the ExCo-meeting in Fukuoka, Japan. More
details about the new task will be discussed in the Task 22 meeting in Heidelberg in May
2012 and the plan is to present the final proposal at the ExCo meeting in Canada in June
2012.
A web-site: www.hydrogenstorage.org is available for the Task 22. It includes information
about the Experts, short information about the Task 22 meetings and the annual reports
from each project. However, unfortunately the web-site is still not updated, but this is
planned to be done as soon as possible.
Status of milestones
Task 22 started in December 2006. The 9 th Experts meeting was organized 4-8 September
2011. The presentations of the projects show a significant progress related to new solid
compounds for hydrogen storage, the use of catalysts, better understanding of varieties of
properties of the materials, and interesting and promising examples of applications of solid
compounds in demonstration and also more industrial projects. However, still further work
has to be carried out to reach the international goals for hydrogen storage. Different types
of applications need different properties of the hydrogen storage system, and thus
development in different directions. International collaboration as obtained within Task 22
will be a key for a possible solution of this challenging problem. It is still a significant
international activity is this field, but there are concerns in several countries about
reductions in funding.
Abbreviated Work Plan and Milestones for next months
The following meetings will be 6-10 May 2012: Heidelberg, Germany (organized by Dr.
Maximilian Fichtner). The final Task 22 meeting is planned to be in Kyoto, Japan, 26-27
October 2012 with Dr. N. Kuriyama and Prof. Y. Kojima as organizers. It will linked to
the MH2012 (the main hydrogen storage materials meeting organized every second year)
Effectiveness of Task Participation
The participation in Task 22 is very good. Most of the Experts were present at the meeting
in Copenhagen, and 38 out of 48 projects were presented by the Experts themselves or by
proxies. This shows that participation in the IEA HIA Task 22 meetings is given a high
priority by the Experts.
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