| Center | Research Areas | Main Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Green hydrogen production | Feasibility Studies | R&D efforts on the generation of Green hydrogen from different feedstocks through a variety of processes |
| Green Energy Systems (Solar, Wind, Biomass) | Select the best hydrogen generation technology, with low or no GHG/carbon emissions depending on intended application | |
| Water sourcing and purification (desalination) | Generate green hydrogen from hydrocarbons for large scale or smaller distributed production through incorporation of carbon capture and/or carbon sequestration in a cost-effective manner. | |
| Electrolysis of water and gas collection (electrodes, catalysis, efficiency) | Gasifying renewable agricultural or woody biomass to generate renewable hydrogen | |
| Safety of Hydrogen Production Processes | Produce hydrogen via electrolysis to store renewable electricity from wind or solar energy, in a form that will | |
| Environmental Impact Assessments | Provide dispatchable lower-carbon energy to consumers that could be used for remote and back-up power generation | |
| Hydrogen storage, new materials and delivery | Hydrogen Storage (Pressurised Gas, Liquified, or solid state storage) | To design, develop, and test the hydrogen quality sampling apparatus (HQSA) to support fuel station certifications |
| Liquid Hydrogen Organic Carrier (LOHC) | To test a free-piston expander for hydrogen cooling to improve cost and efficiency of hydrogen vehicle fueling infrastructure | |
| New materials for hydrogen transport and delivery mechanisms (tanks, pipelines) | To develop hydrogen delivery infrastructure | |
| Hydrogen energy use, economics, law, environment and society | Economics of Green Hydrogen | To propose, supervise the establishment, operation and maintenance of Hydrogen based pilot plants |
| Legislative framework and policy formulation | To research, review and recommend the strengthening and enabling of the Green Hydrogen regulatory environment to function optimally within its eco-system. | |
| Environmental and Social Impact (cross-cutting) | To perform environmental impact assessments associated with the emission of excessive water vapour in the atmosphere | |
| End Use of the Products (construction of pilot projects) | To develop the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) to indicate impacts and mitigation measures during construction, operation, and if needed decommissioning of the proposed feasibility projects | |
| Operation and Maintenance of pilot plants | To examine the potential social impacts both positive impacts, as well as negative impacts. | |
| Capacity building, competence and standards | Capacity Building Development and design new and revised academic programmes | To determine how the current, revised and proposed new degree programmes address the potential future needs of the country for the production of Green Hydrogen and Ammonia and the associated industries and workforce demands |
| Short courses / capacity building workshops/ seminars | To establish a Training and Certification Centre which will be attached to the National Green Hydrogen Research Institute to offer short courses and industry-based certifications in order to skill, reskill and upskill the workforce. | |
| Digital and emerging technologies | Emerging technologies and digital solutions | To establish a centre that focus on design and development of digital solutions and emerging technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Internet-of-Things, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Cybersecurity and mobile applications that are necessary for producing Green Hydrogen |
