This is a late subjective feedback from the General Assembly 2009 of the European Joint Undertaking for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen, which took place 26th and 27th of October in Brussels. Compared to the years before there were maybe only 2/3 participants. Additionally, I had the impression that the industry …
One balloon seller killed and 5 persons seriously injured by an hydrogen vessel explosion on 1st of November in Thailand. The related news is http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/01/content_12368738.htm
Beer from Hindenburg available in an auction (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8352032.stm) The details are not quite correct. However, may be not appropriate to react on old beer?
Costly safety testing requirements and safety concerns about 700 bar seem to be an obstacle in Japan. For details read http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2251306/japanese-laws-pose-roadblocks
Mr Schmidtchen found an interesting report of the European Court of Auditors on the effectiveness of NoE’s (and IP’s) under FP6. See http://eca.europa.eu/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/3074294.PDF and the recommendation 2 including the EC answer at the end.
Stuart Hawksworth, HSE, will present the NoE HySafe achievements at the Hazards XXI conference November 10th 2009 in Manchester. For the full program see http://www.icheme.org/hazardsxxi/.
Some recent minor leaks in US: At US Boston University: http://www.dailyfreepress.com/second-hydrogen-alarm-sounds-in-a-week-1.1945071. At US Washington refuelling station: http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/virginia/va_ap_leak_closes_dc_hydrogen_fuel_station_20091006 For your entertainment, this is what may happen with hydrogen researchers: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/707234–why-a-towed-away-van-led-to-scarborough-evacuation
Regarding the EC activities there is (surprisingly?) not a word on safety on the next FCH JU General Assembly 26/27 October 2009 in Brussels; see http://ec.europa.eu/research/fch/pdf//stakeholders_general_assembly_2009_programme.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none Besides there is the research grouping assembly on Wednesday 28th October 2009. Let’s make sure HySafe is duly represented!
HySafe welcomes the 7 new members: Air Liquide, France Andrei Tchouvelev and Associates, Canada Danish Technical University, Denmark Kingston University, United Kingdom Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Russia Sandia National Laboratory, United States of America Universite de Quebec de Trois Rivieres, Canada Additionally, the Russian Energy Technologies awaits the approval …
From 16th to 18th of September more than 200 world leading experts for hydrogen safety and interested stakeholders meet in Ajaccio (Palais des Congres), Corsica, France. For the third time the worldwide unique International Conference for Hydrogen Safety ICHS is organised by the International Association for Hydrogen Safety – HySafe, …
