Research Priorities Workshops

HySafe, regularly organizes research priorities workshops related to hydrogen safety. The reports on these workshops, exercises respectively, are provided for download at the end of the page.

The purpose of this internationally open activity is to

  • steadily update the State-of-the-Art with respect to hydrogen safety knowledge and to
  • prioritize the research activities to address corresponding gaps in the short and medium term.

Historically the workshop is rooted in a Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT) exercise, first conducted in 2004 by the Network of Excellence NoE HySafe, which was the precursor of the International Association HySafe.

As all activities of the NoE, the prioritization activity also was designed to overcome the fragmentation in hydrogen safety research, integrate different expert views and to coordinate related work on an international level. In 2008, close to the end of the NoE, the PIRT was updated.

In 2010 after the NoE phase the EC JRC in Petten took over initiative and organized a research priorities workshop. However, this workshop focused on the CFD modeling and development. The HySafe partners realized the value and organized the first workshop with an extended scope on more broad-reaching general hydrogen safety knowledge in 2012 in Berlin.  Results have been published at the International Conference on Hydrogen Safety ICHS2013 in Brussels. The status was updated by the subsequent workshops, 2014 supported by the US DoE in Washington DC and 2016 supported by the JRC in Petten, The Netherlands.

The following issue of the workshop was organised on September 2018 at the premises of HSL, Buxton UK, and the last one on November 2022 in Quebec City, CA.

November, 2022

RPW 2022 – Québec City, CA

The HySafe standing research committee holds a by invitation only Research Priorities Workshop (RPW) every even year. The 2022 edition was held in Quebec City on November 21 – 23, 2022. … Read More

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November, 2022
September, 2018

RPW 2018 – Buxton, UK

The Research Priority Workshop on Hydrogen Safety is organized by the International Association for Hydrogen Safety every even year and in 2018 it was held at the HSE’s Health and Safety Laboratory … Read More

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September, 2018
September, 2016

RPW 2016 – Petten, NL

HySafe was organizing a two-day workshop dedicated to Hydrogen Safety Research Priorities on September 26-27, 2016 in the framework of its Research Committee activities in cooperation … Read More

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September, 2016
November, 2014

RPW 2014 – Washington DC, USA

Following the good example of the first workshop held in Berlin 2012 the Research Committee of IA HySafe organised the second Research Priorities Workshop November 10-11, 2014 in Washington DC, USA. … Read More

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November, 2014
October, 2012

RPW 2012 – Berlin, DE

On October 16-17, 2012, by the IA HySafe in the framework of its Research Committee activity and in cooperation with JRC IET Petten, a two-day workshop dedicated to Hydrogen Safety Research Priorities was held. The workshop was organized … Read More

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October, 2012
September, 2010

2010 – Petten, NL

Workshop focused on the CFD modeling and development.

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September, 2010