Hydrogen powered airplane through hydrogen produced electricity or directly combusted jet engines can dramatically reduce carbon emissions and is recognized as the most promising future green aviation transportation.
The presentation will give an introduction to the recent development and the history of hydrogen aircraft in different countries over the world and some critical technologies on hydrogen aircraft such as proton exchange membrane fuel cells and hydrogen powered engines, as well as their relevant materials with hydrogen embrittlement and electrochemical corrosion protections. Liquid hydrogen storage is also briefly introduced.
Vacuum magnetron sputtering and cathodic arc coating machine structures have innovatively designed, optimized and manufactured deliberately for fabricating our multilayer functional electrochromic thin film devices, as well as serving our electrochemical corrosion resistant nitride and carbide protective coatings for metallic bi-polar plates in hydrogen fuel cell and water electrolyzer, as well as for all-thin-film electrochromic devices and applications.
Prof. Dr. Diao Xungang is a full professor of physics, material science and renewable energy technologies at School of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China.
He has studied and worked at Lanzhou University, Institute of Physical and Chemical Engineering of Nuclear Industry, Tsinghua University, Brazilian Center for Physics Research – CBPF, Brazil, Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry – RIKEN, Japan, Royal Institute of Technology – KTH, Sweden, and Tianjin University.
He has published more than 210 academic papers with 3300 citations and H-index 35, been responsible for more than 40 scientific and technological research projects, obtained 12 invention patents, 5 scientific research and education awards on diverse research achievements and university physics teaching in English for foreign students.
He has also worked for totally about 15 years on some special engineering and technological researches in China which was not allowed for academic journal publications.
