Engineering the Global Hydrogen Transition: Materials, Processes, Infrastructure, and Deployment
A special issue of Hydrogen (ISSN 2673-4141).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 5529
Editors
Interests: hydrogen production technologies and emerging pathways; thermochemical, hybrid, and waste-derived hydrogen systems; hydrogen process engineering, modelling, and optimisation; hydrogen storage, transport, and infrastructure integration; carbon capture and hydrogen–CCUS coupled systems; energy systems integration and heat recovery in hydrogen processes; techno-economic and life cycle assessment of hydrogen technologies; scale-up, deployment, and infrastructure readiness of hydrogen systems
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Interests: hydrogen-based low-carbon energy systems and infrastructure engineering; modelling and optimisation of hydrogen and net-zero process systems, including surrogate modelling and performance optimisat
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydrogen is increasingly recognised as a critical enabler of global decarbonisation, with applications spanning energy storage, industrial feedstock, transport, and power generation. Yet the transition from laboratory demonstrations to large-scale, economically viable deployment remains incomplete. While technological innovation continues at a rapid pace, the gap between research advances and practical implementation reflects fundamental engineering challenges that extend across materials, processes, infrastructure, and systems integration.
This Special Issue addresses that persistent gap by adopting an integrated engineering perspective on the hydrogen transition. Rather than viewing hydrogen technologies in isolation, we recognise that successful deployment requires coherent advancement across the full value chain—from production and storage through transport, safety, utilisation, and end-of-life management. The Special Issue explicitly seeks contributions that identify and resolve the specific engineering barriers currently constraining hydrogen realisation.
We welcome original research and critical reviews across four interconnected domains: production pathways that integrate with renewable energy and carbon capture, including novel technologies with demonstrated pathways to commercial scale-up; storage and transport systems that address infrastructure readiness, safety engineering, and the retrofitting of existing energy networks; system-level analysis—modelling, optimisation, techno-economic and life cycle assessment—that connects technological advances to deployable solutions; and interdisciplinary studies that bridge materials innovation, process engineering, infrastructure design, and deployment practice.
We particularly value submissions that explicitly address the research-to-deployment transition: identifying specific bottlenecks, proposing engineering solutions grounded in real-world constraints, and demonstrating how laboratory findings translate into practical hydrogen system implementation. By integrating diverse perspectives on hydrogen engineering across the full value chain, this Special Issue contributes to advancing how hydrogen technologies can be developed, integrated, and deployed effectively to support net-zero transition objectives.
Dr. Hamid Reza Nasriani
Dr. Leila Khajenoori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogen production technologies
- hydrogen storage and transport
- hydrogen infrastructure and safety
- hydrogen process engineering
- materials and processes for hydrogen systems
- system integration and deployment of hydrogen technologies
- hydrogen and carbon capture integration
- techno-economic and life cycle assessment of hydrogen
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