Hydrogen and Ammonia Energy Transition Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Energy Transition Managers, Project Developers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-ETR-038

Before you join: Participants should have working familiarity with energy systems, industrial processes, project development, sustainability, finance or infrastructure planning.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Hydrogen and ammonia projects are moving from strategy statements to investment, permitting, contracting and operational decisions. Energy producers, industrial companies, ports, utilities, banks and public authorities must determine where these molecules genuinely reduce emissions, how they will be produced and transported, and whether proposed projects can meet safety, cost, certification and offtake requirements. Poor assumptions about electricity supply, carbon intensity, conversion losses, infrastructure or demand can undermine project economics and climate claims.

This course examines hydrogen and ammonia as energy carriers, industrial feedstocks and traded commodities. Participants assess electrolysis, natural-gas reforming with carbon capture, Haber-Bosch synthesis, storage, pipelines, shipping, cracking and end-use applications. They calculate mass, energy and carbon balances; compare levelised costs; assess life-cycle emissions; and review the commercial structures used for power procurement, offtake, certification, subsidies and risk allocation. The programme addresses applications in steel, refining, fertiliser, marine fuel, power generation, mobility and export hubs.

Teaching combines short technical briefings with sector cases, calculation work, facilitated group analysis, safety scenarios and project decision simulations. Participants apply methods to realistic project choices such as selecting an ammonia export route, assessing a hydrogen supply proposal for direct reduced iron, or testing the bankability of an electrolyser project. They leave with a reusable hydrogen and ammonia project assessment pack containing value-chain maps, cost and carbon models, risk registers, due-diligence checklists and a 90-day application plan. The five-day instructor-led course is available in classrooms in more than 50 cities or live online. Each training day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides approximately 6.5 contact hours. Participants receive a certificate of completion.

The course suits professionals who already work with energy, industrial operations, infrastructure, finance, sustainability or public policy and need practical decision tools for zero-carbon fuel projects.

What you will be able to do

  • Calculate hydrogen and ammonia mass, energy and carbon balances.
  • Compare production pathways using efficiency, emissions and operating constraints.
  • Assess hydrogen and ammonia transport, storage and conversion options.
  • Apply life-cycle assessment and carbon-intensity accounting to fuel pathways.
  • Build levelised cost and discounted cash flow models for project options.
  • Evaluate offtake, certification, power procurement and risk-allocation structures.
  • Conduct HAZID, HAZOP and bow-tie analyses for key process hazards.
  • Prepare an evidence-based hydrogen or ammonia project implementation plan.

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Assess whether hydrogen or ammonia is credible for a stated decarbonisation use case
  • Challenge supplier assumptions on efficiency, carbon intensity, capacity factor and cost
  • Contribute informed technical input to investment, procurement and policy decisions
  • Recognise material safety, logistics and certification risks before project commitment
  • Build a practical action plan for an active fuel-transition initiative

For your organisation

  • Improve screening of hydrogen and ammonia opportunities before major development spend
  • Reduce unsupported low-carbon fuel claims through traceable carbon-accounting methods
  • Strengthen project due diligence across technology, infrastructure, contracts and safety
  • Create clearer coordination between engineering, sustainability, commercial and finance teams
  • Support more credible investment cases for industrial decarbonisation and clean-fuel infrastructure

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can define where hydrogen and ammonia fit within a decarbonised energy system.

  • Hydrogen and ammonia roles within net-zero energy system architectures
  • Energy carrier properties: density, combustibility, toxicity, and conversion losses
  • Value-chain mapping from renewable electricity through final industrial energy use
  • Sector screening using abatement cost, demand profile, and infrastructure readiness
  • Distinguishing feedstock, fuel, storage medium, and export commodity roles
  • Material-balance calculations for hydrogen, nitrogen, water, and renewable electricity

Participants can compare hydrogen production routes and calculate associated carbon intensity.

  • Electrolyser technologies: alkaline, PEM, SOEC, efficiencies, operating ranges, and constraints
  • Steam methane reforming with carbon capture: capture rates and residual emissions
  • Natural-gas methane intensity and upstream emissions in carbon-intensity calculations
  • Grid-connected versus dedicated renewable electrolysis dispatch and additionality principles
  • Mass and energy balances for one tonne of hydrogen
  • Carbon accounting boundaries using GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Standard
  • Certifying renewable, low-carbon, and recycled-carbon fuel claims

Participants can assess hydrogen logistics options against technical, commercial and quality requirements.

  • Compressed gas, liquid hydrogen, ammonia, and LOHC transport trade-offs
  • Pipeline hydraulics, compression energy, linepack, and blending constraints
  • Hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms and material selection for pipelines and vessels
  • Terminal design interfaces: storage tanks, jetties, loading arms, and boil-off
  • ISO 14687 fuel-quality requirements and contamination control points
  • ISO 19880-1 station design principles, dispensing, and emergency isolation
  • Network routing with hub-and-spoke demand aggregation and capacity staging

Participants can evaluate green ammonia configurations, handling systems and conversion pathways.

  • Haber-Bosch synthesis loop, hydrogen supply, nitrogen separation, and heat integration
  • Green ammonia plant configuration, flexible operation, and renewable power matching
  • Refrigerated storage, pressurised bullets, transfer systems, and vapour management
  • Ammonia toxicity exposure pathways, detection, PPE, and emergency response
  • HAZOP studies for ammonia release, ignition, and isolation scenarios
  • Reconverting ammonia to hydrogen: cracking efficiency, purity, and residual nitrogen
  • Fertiliser, marine fuel, power generation, and export terminal demand patterns

Participants can qualify hydrogen and ammonia demand for priority industrial and transport applications.

  • Direct reduced iron hydrogen demand, shaft furnace constraints, and metallisation targets
  • Refinery hydrogen replacement, hydrotreating demand, and refinery integration limits
  • Fuel-cell mobility duty cycles, refuelling throughput, and total-cost drivers
  • Ammonia co-firing limits, NOx control, and combustion safety measures
  • Marine ammonia bunkering workflows, fuel containment, and crew competency requirements
  • Offtake qualification using volume, purity, delivery pressure, and flexibility
  • Prioritising applications with marginal-abatement-cost curves and demand clustering

Participants can build and test economic cases for hydrogen and ammonia projects.

  • Levelised cost of hydrogen calculation using capex, utilisation, power, and financing
  • Ammonia cost build-up from hydrogen, nitrogen, synthesis, storage, and shipping
  • Discounted cash flow models: NPV, IRR, payback, and sensitivity analysis
  • Electricity procurement structures: PPAs, merchant exposure, and curtailment allocation
  • Bankability assessment of technology warranties, performance guarantees, and completion risk
  • Scenario analysis for carbon price, power price, utilisation, and offtake
  • Stage-gate decisions from pre-feasibility through FEED and final investment decision

Participants can assess market access, certification evidence and core commercial terms.

  • Guarantees of origin, chain-of-custody models, and mass-balance claim rules
  • European RFNBO additionality, temporal correlation, and geographical correlation requirements
  • Certification schemes: ISCC EU, CertifHy, and audit evidence requirements
  • Offtake agreements: take-or-pay, price indexation, volume flexibility, and remedies
  • Incoterms 2020 allocation of custody, insurance, export clearance, and delivery
  • Carbon contracts for difference and subsidy allocation mechanisms
  • Data rooms for lenders, insurers, regulators, and strategic partners

Participants can identify and control principal hydrogen and ammonia process-safety risks.

  • Process safety management elements for hydrogen and ammonia facilities
  • HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, and bow-tie analysis selection criteria
  • Explosion zoning, hazardous-area classification, ventilation, and ignition-source control
  • Quantitative risk assessment inputs: release rates, dispersion, frequencies, and consequences
  • Emergency response planning for toxic plumes, fires, explosions, and evacuation
  • Permit-to-work controls for confined spaces, line breaking, and hot work
  • Contractor competence assurance, incident reporting, and management-of-change workflows

Participants can prepare environmental evidence and stakeholder plans for fuel projects.

  • ISO 14040/14044 goal, scope, inventory, impact assessment, and interpretation
  • Consequential versus attributional life-cycle assessment for fuel pathway decisions
  • Water sourcing, desalination energy, discharge permits, and local water stress
  • Land-use, biodiversity, and community impacts of renewable power supply
  • Air emissions from ammonia combustion, cracking, and accidental releases
  • GHG intensity assurance plans: metering, data lineage, verification, and reporting
  • Stakeholder mapping for ports, communities, regulators, workforce, and emergency services

Participants can structure a practical implementation plan for a hydrogen or ammonia opportunity.

  • Project charter defining use case, capacity, boundary, and decision owner
  • Integrated value-chain map linking production, conversion, logistics, and end use
  • Risk register scored by likelihood, consequence, controls, and accountable owner
  • Implementation roadmap with stage gates, permits, contracts, and critical-path milestones
  • Data requirements for feasibility modelling, certification, safety studies, and financing
  • Investment committee briefing structured around economics, risks, options, and recommendations
  • 90-day action plan assigning analyses, stakeholders, decisions, and review dates

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Hydrogen and ammonia value-chain mapping template
  2. Levelised hydrogen and ammonia cost model
  3. Fuel carbon-intensity calculation worksheet
  4. Hydrogen and ammonia project risk register
  5. Offtake and certification due-diligence checklist
  6. 90-day project application plan

Who should attend

  • Energy Transition Managers — assess viable hydrogen and ammonia investment pathways
  • Project Developers — structure technically credible, financeable fuel projects
  • Industrial Decarbonisation Leaders — test fuel-switching options for major assets
  • Engineers and Technical Managers — evaluate production, logistics and end-use configurations
  • Sustainability and Carbon Managers — substantiate carbon-intensity and fuel-certification claims
  • Infrastructure, Finance and Policy Professionals — appraise risks, incentives and market readiness

Skills and tools covered

Hydrogen project economicsAmmonia value chainsCarbon intensity accountingProcess safety analysisFuel certificationOfftake structuring

Tools and standards

ISO 14040/14044 life-cycle assessment, GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Standard, ISO 14687 hydrogen fuel quality, ISO 19880-1 hydrogen fuelling stations

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish technical and commercial concepts, followed by guided case work drawn from industrial plants, ports, power systems and transport applications. Participants work in groups on mass and energy balances, levelised-cost comparisons, life-cycle emissions, contract choices and safety scenarios. Simulations test decisions under changing power prices, carbon-intensity rules and offtake assumptions. Facilitated discussion connects the methods to participants' own projects, ending with individual application planning.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have working familiarity with energy systems, industrial processes, project development, sustainability, finance or infrastructure planning. They should be comfortable interpreting basic technical and commercial data, including energy units, costs and emissions figures. Prior exposure to hydrogen, ammonia, renewable power procurement or process safety is useful but not required. The course does not require chemical engineering qualifications, advanced financial modelling expertise, specialist software, prior life-cycle assessment experience or detailed knowledge of any national hydrogen policy.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should understand basic energy, industrial, infrastructure, sustainability or project concepts. Chemical engineering expertise is not required, and the course explains the calculations and technical terminology used.

Bring a laptop for calculation work and any non-confidential information about a current project or planned application. Course materials, templates and worked cases are provided.

It is designed for professionals responsible for energy transition, industrial decarbonisation, project development, engineering, sustainability, finance, infrastructure or policy. It is particularly relevant where hydrogen or ammonia proposals require an informed investment or implementation decision.

This course concentrates on hydrogen and ammonia value chains, from production and carbon accounting through logistics, end use, safety, contracts and project economics. It gives more technical and commercial depth on zero-carbon fuel decisions than a broad renewables or climate strategy programme.

Participants can use the templates to screen opportunities, test supplier claims, compare delivery routes, identify safety studies and prepare investment materials. The final application plan links course methods to a live or prospective organisational initiative.

The programme comprises ten teaching modules delivered in sequence over five days, with approximately 6.5 contact hours per day from 08:30 to 16:30. Time is divided among technical briefings, calculations, cases, facilitated group work, safety scenarios and application planning.

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