Wu Zhen | Looking for hydrogen energy potential in open cooperation

On August 11, 2022, Wu Zhen appeared at the 2022 International Conference Sub -Forum site. He is the sponsor and host of the "Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Battery Sub-Forum and China-Serbia Academic Exchange Symposium", and his entire "hydrogen energy and fuel cell" research team participated in the organization work. Affected by the epidemic, the meeting was eventually presented in the form of "online+offline", attracting nearly 2,000 people to watch.

"I think win -win cooperation is the future trend, especially in the field of hydrogen energy." Wu Zhen believes that hydrogen is an ideal energy -containing energy source. The development of hydrogen energy and fuel cells is an important way to achieve the "double carbon" goal. one. "It has a wide range of faces, and the industrial chain formed is relatively long. If you want to develop, you need to gather multi -party forces to do this together." This attitude of openness and cooperation has been running through Wu Zhen's scientific research career. Essence

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Looking for development opportunities from cooperation

For the first time, Wu Zhen came into contact with hydrogen energy in 2008.

That year, Zheng Jinyang, the director of the Institute of Chemical and Machinery, Zhejiang University (elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2021), led the team to carry out a high -pressure hydrogen storage tank demonstration project to add icing on the cake of the "Green Olympic Games, Science and Technology Olympic Games". Manufacturing work pressure is greater than 30 MPa lightweight high -pressure containers.

At that time, Wu Zhen was a undergraduate graduation design in Zheng Jinyang's team. In the process of contacting hydrogen, Wu Zhen keenly felt that hydrogen energy would be a potential stock in new energy.

This feeling is increasingly strong after he was sent to Xi'an Jiaotong University to formally study solid hydrogen storage. But over time, he also realized another problem. "The work we do around the production and storage of hydrogen, mainly concentrated in the upstream. How can hydrogen can be applied and how to transform into power, but it is a downstream problem." Wu Zhen believes that it must be opened up and downstream. And building this bridge is the best choice.

At the end of 2017, Wu Zhen passed the selection of Xiangjiang scholars and cooperated with the team of Professor Ni Meng of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to carry out the research on "modeling and simulation of fuel cell/battery for efficient energy conversion". "I have not been exposed to fuel cells before." For Wu Zhen, two years in Hong Kong are a process of learning and exploration in a new direction. This also verified his previous thoughts: cooperation did bring more possibilities to hydrogen energy research. Since then, strengthening and cooperation with international and domestic exchanges has become his firm choice.

For example, the "hydrogen energy and fuel cell sub-forum and China-Serbian Academic Exchange Seminar" mentioned at the beginning of the article can host the meeting based on Wu Zhen's accumulation in the Chinese-Cecilia. Since 2016, the middle-Cascian work has entered the prosperity period. In the context of "Iron and Steel Friendship, Win-win Win", the China-Central and Eastern European National Universities Federation (referred to as the "Federation") actively operate.

"China and Serbia are comprehensive strategic partnerships," Wu Zhen said that energy cooperation was originally a prominent highlight of the “Belt and Road” initiative. There is a set of data worthy of attention: traditional fossil energy resources along the "Belt and Road" countries account for more than 60%of the world's global, output account for more than 40%, and the corresponding carbon dioxide emissions account for more than 30%. This means that in the "double carbon" era, the energy transformation of "Belt and Road" is very important.

In our country, in 2019, hydrogen energy was first written into the "Government Work Report"; in 2022, with the release of the "Long -term Plan for the Development of the Hydrogen Energy Industry (2021-2035)", hydrogen energy was determined to be the future national energy system The important part of the important component and an important carbon transformation for the use of energy to achieve green low -carbon transformation, the hydrogen energy industry is also determined to be a key development direction of strategic emerging industries and future industries. At the same time, Serbia Energy also said that by 2050, the hydrogen energy strategy will become an important part of its new energy strategy.

This has also become a catalyst between Wu Zhen and its team and Serbia. Around 2019, the hydrogen energy and fuel cell team of Xi'an Jiaotong University began to cooperate with the Nuclear Physics Research Institute of the University of Belgrade. At the end of 2021, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Poland Ghot Dathan University of Technology jointly launched the establishment of a community of engineering discipline construction. At this time, Wu Zhen's "Research on Lightweight and Energy Deng -Energy Dynamic Power System based on hydrogen -based long battery life" hosted by Wu Zhen and cooperated with Serbia is also being launched smoothly.

"With such a foundation, in May 2022, our school signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Belgrade to clearly cooperate in the field of clean energy such as hydrogen energy. In this way, both of us need to conduct close academic exchanges. This is also a concrete implementation for the Confederation of Construction of the Federation of Engineering. "Wu Zhen said.

For Wu Zhen, cooperation means the collision of different discipline backgrounds or different research directions. In the research project, the national key research and development plan-key special projects between the government had the basis of a scholar with a scholar at Johannesburg University in South Africa in the past six years before being approved. The project on the National Natural Science Foundation of China is a shot with the Sun Jing team of the School of Energy and Power Engineering of Shandong University.

"It is difficult to make major breakthroughs in traditional technologies. We look forward to inspiration through multidisciplinary cross -cooperation. Let's take a look at whether it can produce new technical results and lay out as soon as possible on the technical landing." Wu Zhen Wu Zhen. emphasize again. Youth picking beam

"I always feel that I am too young, and the energy on my body may not be able to host or take the lead to do key projects." Wu Zhen said. Having said that, he graduated at the end of 2014, and he started independent scientific research in early 2015. When he presided over the first country's Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund project, it was only in 2016.

"It's difficult to start with everything. The scientific research during the student period is actually more painful, but I think it is very nostalgic and worth it." Wu Zhen's "pain" originated from ideas and plans that could not really land. "The idea must be landed. You can't think of the process from the beginning to the results of the results from the beginning. Question, continue to discuss. "

Wu Zhen regards it as his lesson, and it is also the experience he passed to the students. As a post -80s director who graduated for less than 8 years, Wu Zhen believed that he could pick up the beam, from the support of young scientific researchers from the school, Shaanxi Province to the national level. Therefore, he is also willing to work hard to explore the path of self -consistent teacher.

It can be seen on the official website of Xi'an Jiaotong University that, represented by doctoral students Zhu Pengfei, Yao Yan, etc., Wu Zhen's students' performance is very outstanding. Their papers were received by international journals such as "Journal of Energy Chemistry" and "Applied Energy". They won the voucher at the Nobel winner of the Nobel Prize in Linkao, Germany. The best report award for the forum ...

"Tiandao pays hard, this is inseparable from their long -term efforts and accumulation." Wu Zhen is most proud of that students can sink their hearts to accumulate. He frankly said that he hoped to cultivate students into the best among peers in the field. "Talent training is the most important to teachers, and it is the first."

In 2021, Wu Zhen's "Research on the Application of New Hydrogen Reservoir and Hydrogen Energy Application" was supported by the second batch of industry -academia cooperation and education projects of the Ministry of Education. "We can't do scientific research alone, we must combine scientific research, teaching and talent training," he said.

This project completely reflects Wu Zhen's concept of talent training. "After 2018, hydrogen energy has entered a period of rapid development. However, to form a real industry, a large number of professional talents need to be added. The status quo is that most of the domestic universities are settled in energy/new energy. Cultivation is still lacking. "

Wu Zhen's goal is to use the research results of the edge of hydrogen energy into teaching. At present, Xi'an Jiaotong University has set up hydrogen storage -related courses. At the same time, cooperation with enterprises has been used as a demonstration, lectured from students in this field, and how to get through theory to practice. For example, cooperate with enterprises to complete a process system and build a teaching model, so that students can intuitively understand the entire process of hydrogen energy from production, purity to storage and transportation.

"Student training is a difficult process. It needs to be treated with a attitude of viewing the laws of nature. It cannot be pulled up to help them. It must give them enough time and environment to grow them." When the teacher was professor from Zhang Zao school, Wu Zhen faced Wu Zhen's face. Such an environment that can give full play to himself, he also passes this educational concept to students. "It is normal to take a detour, and you can't lose the adventure spirit because of fear of taking the detour. We must encourage students to explore more, so that they can make something different from the past."

Now Wu Zhen is no longer like the first time he is. In the past 8 years, he has won the "Application Energy" journal and Ais Weimer International Press in 2015 and 2017 to jointly award the best award (ICAE BEST PAPER Award of Excellence) and the best papers (ICAE BEST Paper Award); published more than 100 SCI papers and authorized more than 10 invention patents.

During the interview, Wu Zhen repeatedly emphasized the power of inspiring. This power, he felt when he won the award, and also felt in the development of the team. According to statistics, in the past 10 years, the number of papers published on the solid -state hydrogen storage reactor has ranked among the top world.

"This has strengthened our in -depth confidence." Wu Zhen said, "In the process of scientific research, we can integrate undergraduate teaching and graduate training to form a system, allowing students The pursuit is also a lifetime pursuit. "

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