Ts. Dr. Vincent Woon and Team Publish in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
The Research and Postgraduate Centre congratulates Zhou Jinqin, Weng Shaoxiang, Phuang Zhen Xin, Asst. Prof. Dr. Tan Jian Ping, and Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Vincent Woon Kok Sin (corresponding author) from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, for their recent research article published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, an SCI Q1 journal with the latest impact factor of 8.1.
Zhou Jinqin and Weng Shaoxiang are both graduates with bachelor's degrees in New Energy Science and Engineering, and they now serve as Customer Manager and R&D engineer in Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd., respectively. Phuang Zhen Xin is currently pursuing her PhD at XMUM.
This research is conducted in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque from the University of Prince Edward Island and Asst. Prof. Dr. Wong Keng Yinn from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The project is financially supported by the Xiamen University Malaysia Research Fund (XMUMRF/2019- C4/IENG/0022 and XMUMRF/2023-C11/IENG/0057).
In the paper entitled "Exploring intra-regional hydrogen production alternatives for fuel cell vehicles via greenhouse gas-based life cycle supply chain (GHG-LCSC) optimization", the researchers developed a GHGLCSC optimization method that optimizes intra-regional hydrogen power transmission by minimizing the spatial proximity between China provinces to reduce GHG emissions and resource deficit. The research reveals that provinces like Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Shandong act as the main suppliers to provinces like Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Sichuan, suggesting a north-to-south (N-S) regional hydrogen transmission in the intra-regional supply-demand optimization. The outcome also suggested phasing out grey hydrogen pathways and accelerating the transition of grey-to-green hydrogen production pathways with the buffering of blue hydrogen pathways between 2015 and 2040 for the net-zero emission ambition by 2060.
This study helps the decision-makers to endorse green hydrogen production for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles while securing hydrogen energy security.
The published full article can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.07.304
