Nicholas Hart, Ph.d. | AIChE

Nicholas Hart, Ph.d.

ITM Power is an electrolyser (hydrogen generator using water electrolysis) manufacturer based in Sheffield, UK. Nick leads the compliance activities for ITM’s electrolyser and refuelling station products and operations. As part of this activity, Nick has become UK lead expert to International Standards Organisation (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) ISO TC 197 developing standards and technical guidance for hydrogen technologies, also UK lead expert to the Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN) TC 268 WG5, preparing standards harmonised to the European Directive 2014/94/EU on alternative fuels infrastructure. He is chair of the British Standards Institute (BSI) committee PVE/3/8 that contributes to these international committees, and is also secretary of the British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA) technical sub-committee (TSC) 9 developing UK national standards relating to alternative fuels. Further to this, Nick is the chair of the FCH JU Regulation Codes and Standards (RCS) Strategy Coordination Group (SCG), and also an active member of the SAE FCEV Interface Task Force, the informal GTR13 working group and the CEN/CENELEC Sector Forum Energy Management (SFEM) Working Group Hydrogen.