Walter Mérida

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇨🇦 MéridaLabs is looking for Postdoctoral Fellow to work on hashtag#green hashtag#hydrogen production via high temperature and pressure (HTP) water hashtag#electrolysis. Apply here: https://t.co/1mcrH5iYb6

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇨🇦 Solid carbon, not hashtag#CO2: in our latest work, we characterise solid carbon produced as a by-product of low-emission hashtag#hydrogen from the hashtag#pyrolysis of hashtag#methane and other hashtag#hydrocarbons.

https://t.co/v3ZjLJVY5D

#hydrogen #pyrolysis #methane

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇯🇵 🇨🇦 Hydrogen across the Pacific: exploring collaboration pathways with colleagues from Toyota Tsusho (https://t.co/CRvH9co9hi), Sumitomo Corporation(https://t.co/UYA3deKcVG), and the METI office in the Chūbu region (https://t.co/00i3vM5FzZ). Special thanks to Carolyn Bailey.

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇨🇦 Scaling up: low-carbon #hydrogen from natural gas. Building on a 2020 prototype, we built a pilot plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta (https://t.co/apXsFViL6w. ). The plant scales-up #pyrolysis to convert natural gas into solid #carbon and low- or zero-emission hydrogen.

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇨🇦 Keep refrigerated: as production volumes and demand increase, the cryogenic storage of liquid #hydrogen will become indispensable in some applications. In our latest work, we evaluate the performance of cylindrical and spherical tanks.  https://t.co/oiFKkYpaTV

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇬🇹 🇨🇦 Building on our collaboration with Siemens (https://t.co/tYKe1sEtXq), I I met with colleagues leading projects in Central America and the Caribbean. Special thanks to the Asociación de Generadores Renovables (https://t.co/iqP10uZqKu)

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

We are hiring: to expand our collaboration @UBC - @FortisBC collaboration, we need someone with experience in project management, #hydrogen technologies and the interface between research and sectorial priorities. Interested? Apply here: https://t.co/kT4YBv1emf

#hydrogen

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇪🇺🇨🇦Canada will join Horizon Europe, the EU’s €100B programme for research and innovation. https://t.co/P1hU7zB552 Trudeau made the announcement in Newfoundland during a Summit with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇬🇧 Support for UK manufacturing: Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced £4.5 billion ($5.6 billion) to support eight manufacturing sectors (https://t.co/2gyIk9cmoP).

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇨🇦  Canada announced a $1-billion Li-ion battery manufacturing plant in Maple Ridge, B.C. (https://t.co/2Qs6h0Y5Fe). Construction will start next June and operations are scheduled to begin in 2028. The new facility will be largest Li-ion battery plant in Canada.
#batteries

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇩🇪 🇨🇦 New ambassador: John Horgan, the former premier of British Columbia, has been named Canada's next ambassador to Germany. (https://t.co/Aiueyu43eu). His mandate  will include  providing advice on “...shared challenges of food and energy security and global conflicts.”

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇨🇦 A bit less mysterious:  earlier today, Minister Chrystia Freeland announced CAD$90M to support the scaling and commercialization efforts at Eavor, a geothermal energy company based in Calgary (https://t.co/uGqSsKGRKc).

#geothermal #CanadaGrowthFund #energytransition

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇩🇪 🇨🇦 Our latest publication is online (https://t.co/LX2WH2UbOz). Accelerated testing over 1000s of hours can be used to estimate product lifetimes and improve design, operation and manufacturing processes. Another example of German-Canadian cooperation.
#hydrogen #electrolysis

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇨🇦Shovels on the ground: it was great to attend the ground-breaking ceremony for HTEC’s hydrogen production facility in Burnaby. BC Hydro will provide electricity to a 2.5MW water electrolyser.
#hydrogen #ClimateActionNow

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇨🇦 A new study on the #hydrogen regulatory landscape in BC (https://t.co/7NSZXqpx67). A lengthy Environmental Assessment Act Review Process (3-5 yrs or longer) would be required for projects producing more than 100,000 t/y of hydrogen or 5000 t/y of ammonia.

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇨🇦 Green aluminium: the Canadian government announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Rio Tinto (https://t.co/tM1pnvdcY6) to build the first Western aluminum smelter in a decade using AP60 electrolysis technology in Saguenay, Québec.
#electrolysis #energytransition

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

UK Science Minister George Freeman was in Canada today to announce deeper collaboration on biomanufacturing, quantum, climate change and alternative protein research (https://t.co/vNOXnC8Adv ).

#quantum #biomanufacturing #climatechange

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🇨🇦 During yesterday’s plenary session at the Hy-Fcell conference, Josie Osborne, Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation announced support ($4M) toward the BC Hydrogen Ports Project (BCH2 Ports Project), one of the first of its kind in Canada. https://t.co/lUbPHhyyPs

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇺🇸 A pathway to decarbonization: earlier today, the Biden administration released the US National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap (https://t.co/csu3FzLtiu), enabling significant opportunities for technological and economic cooperation.

#hydrogen #energytransition

[Walter Mérida @UBC_wmerida]

🇳🇴 🇨🇦Out of the blue: earlier today, a new hydrogen fuel cell product for marine applications was launched. https://t.co/ckSV0cIDjl Just in time for the session on Ports and Marine Applications at the Hy-fcell conference in Vancouver (https://t.co/0tHYoIwRvy).

#hydrogen