The North East of England, is emerging as a significant hub for low-carbon hydrogen production and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies.

Teesside has a long history of heavy industry, including chemical production, steel manufacturing, and oil refining. By leveraging its industrial heritage, strategic location, and collaborative efforts between industry, academia, and government, Teesside is positioning itself as a leading hub for the deployment and innovation of low-carbon hydrogen and CCUS technologies, contributing to the UK’s net-zero emissions goals.

Purpose: Join us for this exciting workshop, with our partner NEPIC where we will discuss how the NE is emerging as the UK’s leading hub for low carbon hydrogen and Carbon Capture Utilisation innovations and deployment, and what is needed to accelerate the sector, including, infrastructure, investment, funding for R&D, skills, policy, regulation and consumer and customer acceptance.

Agenda:

09:45 Coffee and registration

10:00 Welcome Pioneer Group

10:10 The NE as a hub for low carbon hydrogen and CCUS Abigail Bell Events and Sponsorship Manager, NEPIC

10:40 Carbon Capture for Decarbonisation of Industrial Clusters Professor Dawid Hanak, Net-Zero Industry Innovation Centre, Teesside University

11:00 Integrating Carbon Capture with Energy from Waste James Gray, Technical Manager – Process Development Team, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

11:20 Feasibility of using Hydrogen as a Feedstock – Platform Chemicals to feed into variety of markets Qiang Li, Principal Scientist, CPI

11:40 Innovation in green technologies- A patents perspective Ashley Wragg, Patent Attorney, Appleyard Lees 

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities for low carbon hydrogen and CCUS

14:45 Summary of the day and next steps

15:00 Close

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