Purdue Professor Helps Students Understand the Importance of Green Hydrogen in Online MS in Engineering Technology Program
John Sheffield, professor of engineering technology in Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute, has a long-standing passion for developing green hydrogen sustainable energy solutions.
As a professor, he’s been able to share his insights on green hydrogen production with people all over the world – most notably, perhaps, Pope Francis. During the beginning of the pandemic, he had a conversation with the pope, who was trained as an analytical chemist, about using green hydrogen to power the popemobiles. Green hydrogen, it turns out, has promising applications from the bustling streets of Vatican City to Indiana, where it’s being used to help decarbonize industry.
“Green hydrogen is regarded as the best bet for harmonizing the intermittentness of renewable energy sources, while decarbonizing the important energy intensive industrial, chemical, and transportation sectors,” said Sheffield.
Sheffield teaches about energy sustainability and management in Purdue’s online Master of Science in Engineering Technology program. Through his courses, he helps students explore commercial and industrial energy management systems and model sustainability opportunities that have the potential to transform energy production as we know it. From his view, green hydrogen is already having an impact by helping reduce carbon emissions in numerous industries, from steel and cement manufacturing to generating renewable power for transportation.
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