Plenary Speaker
Tobias Brunner
Managing Director and Co-founder
Hynergy GmbH
Hauptstr.8b
85630 Grasbrunn, Germany
Email: brunner@hynergy.de
Short Biography
Dr. Brunner is a Managing Director and Co-owner of Hynergy GmbH, a Hydrogen Energy and Mobility Engineering company in Germany. Since 2016 he furthermore serves a Chinese OEM as their VP Fuel Cell R&D with the target to set up a full-scale hydrogen fuel cell development program.
Before co-founding Hynergy GmbH in 2015, Dr. Brunner has been serving BMW Group in various roles for more than 10 years, most recently as head of BMW’s Technology Project Hydrogen Fuel Cell. Under Dr. Brunner’s supervision several fuel cell electric vehicle prototypes and test fleets as well as novel cryogenic storage and refueling technologies have been developed and demonstrated.
Dr. Brunner has been a panel reviewer for the European Commission, the US Department of Energy as well as the Research Council of Norway. He is the author of several reference publications on hydrogen technology and holds a dozen patents on cryogenic hydrogen storage and refueling technology.
Before starting his professional career in industry in 2004, Dr. Brunner received a doctor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technical University of Munich. Before that he earned degrees in Mechanical Engineering of Technical University of Munich, Germany, as well as of École Centrale Paris, France. Later on, Dr. Brunner passed the International Graduate Program of Kyoto University, Japan, as a researcher on Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer phenomena.
“Hydrogen fuel pathways – gaseous, cryogenic and other alternatives”
Hydrogen may become a key energy carrier and fuel for the emission-free mobility of the world’s future. Due to the nature of hydrogen, being the lightest and most volatile gas, hydrogen storage and delivery brings challenges. There are different ways to transport, store and dispense hydrogen, including gaseous compressed or liquid hydrogen as well as in hydrogen carriers of different nature. Each one of them will come with opportunities as well as challenges and only a few will be viable enough to compete.
The presentation will compare key hydrogen pathways for hydrogen mobility based on their local and total cost, carbon footprint and safety and will name advantages and challenges of each pathway. A key focus will go to cryogenic hydrogen pathways since they seem to have a very promising perspective.