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Green Hydrogen Energy Systems explores the vital technologies and methods for generating, storing, and utilizing green hydrogen. By adopting an energy systems approach, the book offers a comprehensive review of green hydrogen systems, integrating principles, configurations, progress, and applications, bolstered by technoeconomic analyses and performance data. Addressing common challenges, it explains processes for developing and constructing basic and advanced green hydrogen systems. The book details the fundamentals of hydrogen technologies, including thermodynamics, kinetics, energy loss mechanisms, and costs. It covers aspects such as heat release, clean water usage in electrolyzers, system configurations, and includes real-world performance data, case studies, hydrogen hubs, safety, and economics.

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Dr. Alexandros Arsalis is a Senior Researcher at the PHAETHON Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus, where he leads the Green Hydrogen Energy Systems Group. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Aalborg University and an M.S. from Virginia Tech, both with a strong emphasis on hydrogen-based energy technologies. An internationally recognized expert in hydrogen systems, he has extensive experience in the design, modeling, optimization, and experimental validation of integrated green hydrogen solutions. His work focuses on system-level strategies that advance the transition toward resilient, low-carbon energy infrastructures. He has authored over 65 peer-reviewed publications and secured competitive fellowships and research grants from diverse funding programs. He has also played key roles in several international research consortia on hydrogen and sustainable energy, including Horizon Europe projects. Beyond his research, he is actively involved in education and training, having taught courses on renewable energy systems, numerical methods, and hydrogen technologies. In parallel, he contributes to capacity-building efforts through Erasmus+ projects on green hydrogen education across Europe and the Mediterranean. Additionally, he serves on editorial boards. Committed to science outreach, he actively promotes public engagement and knowledge transfer through various events, workshops, and training initiatives. Fanourios Kourougianni is a Researcher at the PHAETHON Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus. He holds an M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. His expertise lies in the advanced modeling and optimization of energy systems for the built environment. His current research focuses on the techno-economic assessment of green hydrogen technologies, with particular emphasis on their integration into sustainable building applications. Dr. Andreas V. Olympios is a Research Associate at the PHAETHON Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus, within the Sustainable Buildings and Cities pillar. He holds a Ph.D. in Clean Energy Processes from Imperial College London and an M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham, where he graduated top of his class and received the IMechE Institution Best Student Award. His research expertise spans the design and operational optimization of energy conversion and storage technologies, as well as strategic building and urban energy planning. He has authored over 45 publications in high-impact journals and international conferences and has collaborated with major industrial partners. He is actively involved in multi-partner national and EU-funded research projects and serves as an Editor for Applied Energy and an expert evaluator for several EU programs. His research in the hydrogen field focuses on the techno-economic modeling of green hydrogen technologies and their integration into multi-energy-vector systems. Dr. Charalampos Konstantinou is a Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the PHAETHON Centre of Excellence at the University of Cyprus. He holds an M.Eng. from the National Technical University of Athens (graduated 2nd), an M.Sc. from Imperial College London (graduated 1st), and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the hydromechanics of biocemented sands, porous media flow in energy and water systems, and data-driven modeling for resource management. He has authored over 45 peer-reviewed publications, contributed to multiple EU-funded research projects, and is co-inventor of a patented flow apparatus. He has extensive teaching experience, having taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Cyprus, and most recently at the Harvard Kennedy School. Georgios Yiasoumas is a Researcher at the PHAETHON Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus. His research interests cover the broader energy sector, with a focus on energy communities, local energy markets, and hydrogen technologies. He holds an M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2020) and an M.Sc. in Sustainable Engineering from the University of Strathclyde (2021). During his studies, he received the Grigoris Farakos Prize for Academic Excellence (2018- 2019), awarded to the top three students in the Schools of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at NTUA specializing in energy. Panos Papanastasiou is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cyprus, where he also serves as Director of the Natural Gas Engineering and Energy Transition Program. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the PHAETHON Centre of Excellence. He holds an M.Eng. from the National Technical University of Athens (1984) and an M.Sc. (1986) and Ph.D. (1990) from the University of Minnesota. Before joining academia, he spent over 15 years in the oil and gas industry as a researcher and consultant. His current research focuses on the challenges of energy transition, including carbon capture and storage (CCS), geological hydrogen storage, and the cracking and degradation of photovoltaic systems. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, 120 conference papers and book chapters, edited six conference proceedings and books, and holds three patents. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment (Elsevier). Dr. Aravind Purushothaman Vellayani is a Professor and Chair of Energy Conversion at the Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG), Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, where he also serves as Director of Hydrogen Economy at the Wubbo Ockels School. He holds an M.Sc. from the University of Oldenburg and a Ph.D. from TU Delft, where his doctoral research focused on biomass gasification, solid oxide fuel cells, and microturbine systems for high-efficiency energy conversion. His research centers on the development and integration of advanced fuel cell technologies and hydrogen-based energy systems. At Groningen, he leads a dedicated laboratory for hydrogen and fuel cell research, supervising multiple Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral researchers. He teaches courses on hydrogen technologies, fuel cell systems, and the thermodynamics of energy conversion. He previously served as Lead of the Interfaculty Negative Emissions Program at the TU Delft Climate Institute and as Chair of the Department Advisory Board at the SCT College of Engineering, Kerala Technical University. He also chaired the KnowHy Foundation, continuing the educational mission of the EU-funded KnowHy project, which he coordinated. Prof. Soteris Kalogirou is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the Cyprus University of Technology. In addition to his Ph.D., he holds a D.Sc. and is internationally recognized for his pioneering contributions to renewable energy. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, a Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, a Member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance. For over 35 years, he has conducted research in solar energy, with expertise encompassing solar collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generation, desalination, photovoltaics, geothermal energy, and absorption cooling. He has published extensively, authoring numerous journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. His books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems (Academic Press, Elsevier) are widely recognized references in the field. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. George E. Georghiou is a Professor and the Director of FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy, University of Cyprus. Prior to this, he was a Lecturer and the undergraduate course leader in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southampton, and a Research Fellow at the Electricity Utilization Group, University of Cambridge. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA, MEng, MA all with distinction and a PhD, Dr Georghiou continued his work at the University of Cambridge in the capacity of a Research Fellow (1999-2002). Prof. Georghiou is currently a member of the CENELEC and IEC committees on PV and is acting as an expert evaluator for Horizon 2020 energy proposals as well as being a member of CIGRE and the European Solar Energy Industrial Initiative. He also represents Cyprus on the SET plan steering committee. Prof. Georghiou has published over 400 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and his team has obtained research funding in excess of 18 million Euros from bodies such as the European Union, Industry (such as Honeywell, Q Cells etc), the National Funding Agency etc. Amongst his scholarly achievements, are six outstanding paper awards for the most significant technical scientific contributions and an innovation prize.

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