THE IAHE PRESIDENT JUBILEE GREETINGS
It was 39 years ago, during the first International Conference on Hydrogen Energy (the Hydrogen Economy Miami Energy Conference, 18-20 March 1974, Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.) when a small group of "Hydrogen Romantics" got together. It was agreed that the Hydrogen Energy System was an idea whose time had arrived. It was viewed as a means of the permanent solution to the global environmental problems and the depletion of fossil fuels.
So, International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) was established by the end of that year, and started working in earnest. One of the first activities of IAHE was establishing (1975) The International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE) - the official journal of IAHE. Then, to provide a platform for forming Hydrogen Energy Community there were organized the biennial World Hydrogen Energy Conferences, and some other special-purpose international hydrogen conferences. Since that time hydrogen has made significant progress and inroads in all the directions in the energy field, due to its unmatched superior properties and characteristics as an energy carrier, on the one hand, and due to the unrelenting work of all those who took part in the Hydrogen Movement, on the other hand.
During all these years, the Donetsk National Technical University (DonNTU), the leading technical university of the Donbass region of Ukraine, has been amongst the world renown universities in the field of Hydrogen Economy and Hydrogen Materials Science, thanks to the activities of a special hydrogen laboratory headed by Professor V.A. Goltsov, a member of the Board of Directors of IAHE, and a member of Honorary Editorial Board of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
Really, since the middle of the 1970s special national and international conferences on the Hydrogen Energy and Hydrogen-Materials problems were held in Donetsk every two-three years.
Historically in parallel with Hydrogen Energy Community Hydrogen-Materials one was successfully developing in the world. As materials problem forms a very important part of any global vector of human development, more and more close cooperation of the above mentioned communities was necessary for the
future Hydrogen Economy entering into the life. This cooperation has already its own long history, and its development was very successful thanks to the activity of many outstanding scientists and well-known scientific groups. Among them it is necessary to emphasize the Donetsk scientific group, headed by Professor V.A. Goltsov.
It was just Professor V.A. Goltsov who discovered in the 1970s a new fundamental hydrogen property: hydrogen is not only an excellent universal energy carrier, but it is a fundamental, unique agent for hydrogen treatment of materials permitting to improve their structure and properties, to create new advanced materials needed for Hydrogen Economy. Since that time this new paradigm of Materials Science has attracted new and new adherents. Respectively, Professor V.A. Goltsov was awarded (June 2000) with IAHE Rudolf E. Erren Award "...for Outstanding Contribution to Hydrogen Energy in General and to Hydrogen Treatment of Materials in Particular".
In 1997 under the auspices of IAHE the Permanent Working International Scientific Committee on Hydrogen Treatment of Materials (PWISC HTM) was established (Chairperson is Professor V.A. Goltsov). One of the general aims and tasks of the created Committee is to support permanently the cooperation of the Hydrogen Energy Community and Hydrogen-Materials one. For this purpose IAHE and PWISC HTM organized triennial international conferences "Hydrogen Economy and Hydrogen Treatment of Materials". Proceedings of the selected papers of these conferences were published in IJHE.
Under the auspices of IAHE and PWISC HTM in 2001 there was published the first review-book "Progress in Hydrogen Treatment of Materials" written by the world-renowned scientists from ten countries and edited by V.A. Goltsov. So, there were generalized the achievements of this new field of Materials Science and Engineering. Since that time this review-book has found increasing favor in materials science community of more than 30 countries.
And now this jubilee issue of international journal "Alternative Energy and Ecology" dedicated to forty-year anniversary of the Donetsk scientific group, brought into being and headed by Professor V.A. Goltsov, will inform and consolidate the Russian-speaking hydrogen
Международный научный журнал «Альтернативная энергетика и экология» № 01 (141) 2014 © Научно-технический центр «TATA», 2014
T. Nejat Veziroglu THE IAHE PRESIDENT JUBILEE GREETINGS
community of the CIS-countries as a part of the World Hydrogen Movement.
My colleagues, leaders and members of the Donetsk scientific group, congratulation. All of you being members of the World Hydrogen Movement can be very proud of the results of your unrelenting work making a great contribution to the development of Hydrogen Energy, the only one known to be clean, efficient, sustainable, abundant, hospitable to life on the Planet Earth. I am sure the readers of this issue of the journal will positively estimate your scientific achievements.
T. Nejat Veziroglu President,
International Association for Hydrogen Energy
International Scientific Journal for Alternative Energy and Ecology № 01 (141) 2014
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