Bachelor Hydrogen Technology (BWT)

A successful energy transition needs the combination of environmental sustainability, supply security and affordability with innovative and intelligent climate protection. This urgently requires alternatives to the fossil fuels that are currently still in use. In context of the required cross-sector decarbonisation hydrogen takes an important role in the completion of the energy transition.

Hydrogen is a multifaceted energy carrier. For example, it can be used as a base for synthetic fuels or to produce electrical energy within fuel cells. Furthermore, hydrogen represents an ideal, flexible long-term storage of regeneratively generated electrical energy. Hydrogen technology is a key factor and paves the way into the CO₂ neutral age.

The work of hydrogen technology engineers is the most important contribution for the necessary realignment of industry, transportation and housholds towards a CO₂ emission-free energy usage. They actively implement the demands of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

For this reason, the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW) as regulatory competence network for all issues about gas and water supply, welcomes the degree programme Bachelor Hydrogen Technology (BWT) and offers its professional support.

This degree programme was checked and accredited by the German Accreditation Council.

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The DVGW dedicates itself increasingly to technical questions which arise due to the upcoming usage of hydrogen, for example in the gas infrastructure.

More information about hydrogen research projects, publications and events of the DVGW is publicly available on the DVGW website.

The degree programme Bachelor Hydrogen Technology (BWT) - versatile and focused on energy transition

With the degree programme Bachelor Hydrogen Technology (not to be confused with the degree programme Bachelor Hydrogen Technology Transnational which is partly taught in English and German plus in two different countries) engineers learn along the process chain on basis of well-known process engineering processes how to systematically develop, produce and operate hydrogen plants and systems. The study contents are focused on the topic hydrogen and the corresponding process chain.

In addition to the technical content, the hydrogen technology degree programme also develops the students' methodological and personal skills. The independent solution of application-related tasks in accompanying laboratory courses and teaching projects occupies a broad space in the study.

Professional competences

The study of hydrogen technology provides students with specialist competences from process engineering, thermodynamics, physics, chemistry and electro-chemistry in the overarching areas:

• Plant design and construction
• Plant operation
• Fuel cell technology
• Use of renewable energies for hydrogen production
• Hydrogen safety
• Hydrogen storage
• Hydrogen transport and distribution
• Hydrogen utilization
• Hydrogen economy

Professional applications

The potential uses of hydrogen as an energy carrier are extremely diverse and by no means limited to its use as a supplement to batteries in electric vehicles or as an alternative to fossil fuels. With the energy transition, the use of renewable energies is being pushed in all sectors. Therefore, graduates of the Bachelor Hydrogen Technology (BWT) degree programme have a wide range of possible professional fields of application: