The German National Innovation Program had it’s general assembly end of March. All presentations documenting the large program status are available on the NOW website http://www.now-gmbh.de/index.php?id=280&L=1.
Sorry for the German flavour.
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Special Issue of the Int Joural H2 Energy with content from the 2nd ICHS
I’m happy to forward the received mail related the previous ICHS2 conference:
Dear Dr. Marco Carcassi
It is with great pleasure that I announce the publication of “2nd International Conferecne on Hydrogen Safety” special issue for International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. The issue is now available electronically on ScienceDirect at the following link.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03603199
The Table of Contents has also been attached for your convenience. You are welcome to forward it along to all interested parties. After the paper issue has been printed, you will receive five complimentary copies of this special issue directly from our distribution center. At this time, if you have any comments about the manuscript submission and review process, your experience with EES, or your overall interaction with Elsevier in preparing this special issue, we would be very interested in hearing your feedback.
Marco Carcassi
IA HySafe welcomes new member PNL
The network welcomes the new US American member PNL (http://www.pnl.gov). PNL is the 25 full member of IA HySafe an contributes with its highly valuable expertise, in particular in the field of industry level safety. The contact person is Steve Weiner.
Another proof of hydrogen’s intrinsic safety
On 6th of April 9 am at the GE aviation site in Hooksett N.H. USA a quarter of a hydrogen tank (135 pounds) was incidentially released. The valve was opened during the installation. The staff in the vicinity was evacuated and the fire brigade managed to close the valve. That’s it.
For details see e.g. http://www.wmur.com/newsarchive/23066379/detail.html.
US Market Report Issued by NHA
The US NHA just released an interesting market report on http://www.hydrogenassociation.org/marketreport/pdf/fullReport.pdf. Enjoy the reading.
Enero Workshop on Energy Risks
The workshop recently organised in Brussels was dedicated to the safety of renewable energy. Two presentations concentrated on hydrogen, see http://www.enero.eu/page.asp?id=126&langue=EN. The first given by C. Proust from INERIS showed some interesting results of experiments with type 4 vessels. The other presentation given by T. Jordan KIT showed the results and services of the HySafe network.
GM hydrogen Equinox impacted from front and rear
So the real world hits hydrogen cars too , see http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/03/gms-hydrogen-fuel-cell-fleet-getting-real-crash-experience/1. To my knowledge this is the second accident with a fuel cell car. Not only for statistics we need more hydrogen vehicles proving their inherent safety.
LACOMECO – 1st Call for Proposals
Dear Colleagues and interested parties,
the LACOMECO project was positively evaluated and accepted by the European Commission.
As already announced at different meetings, the principle objective of the LACOMECO project at KIT is to provide research institutions from the EU Member Countries (except Germany) and Associated States access to four large-scale experimental facilities QUENCH, LIVE, DISCO, and HYKA used to investigate the coolability of a degraded core, corium coolability in the RPV, possible melt dispersion to the reactor cavity, and hydrogen mixing and combustion in the containment.
This access is provided free of all charge to the interested users or user groups and includes all infrastructural, logistical, technical and scientific support needed to perform the desired experiments. For the users of the facilities KIT will cover the travel and subsistence costs of the visits.
Now KIT is ready to announce the first call for proposals and invite interested organisations to participate in the project. If you and your colleagues are interested in participating in the project and perfrom experiments that may help support and contribute to your R&D needs, please complete the proposal submission form for the access to LACOMECO and return it not later than April 30, 2010.
The submission form and additional information about the project can be found at the LACOMECO website at http://www.fzk.de/lacomeco.
Please specify the facility you want to use, the experimental objectives, requirements and experimental conditions. Collected proposals will be then evaluated by independent experts and submitted to the European Commission for justification. Careful consideration will be given to the features not yet considered in earlier experiments in these facilities, the recommendations and results of the SARNET SARP group will be used as guidelines. Authors of selected proposals will be invited for further negotiations and detailed discussions of the proposed experiments (time schedule, test parameters, visits to KIT, etc).
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, or need more details about particular facilities please don’t hesitate to contact
Dr. Alexei Miassoedov
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technologies (IKET)
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Phone: +49 7247 82 2253; Fax: +49 7247 82 4837
Alexei.Miassoedov@kit.edu
3rd ENERO Scientific Workshop on “Risk Assessment and Management of Strategic Energy Technologies”
There are several contributions to this workshop by HySafe partners. In the afternoon IA HySafe is presented and a presentation of C. Proust on hydrogen hazards is included.
The workshop is organised in Brussels UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, rue d’ Egmontstraat 11, on 5 March 2010, 9:00a.m.-5:00p.m.
If you want to participate send a short mail to coordinator@hysafe.net, he will provide you with some further information.
For more details regarding the research organisation network ENERO just have a look at its website on www.enero.eu.
BMW continues to support hydrogen energy!
Last Dcember there had been rumours BMW would stop supporting hydrogen based on a misunderstanding of an interview with the research director.
BMW immediatly corrected this and declared that there is no stop in supporting hydrogen as a vehicle fuel. Development of associated technologies is ongoing and the related partnerships are maintained.
The official press release related is accessible on http://www.cleanenergypartnership.de/index.php?id=13&L=1.
Still believing “any news are good news”.