HyRAM V1.0 (Hydrogen Risk Assessment Models), a software toolkit to assess the safety of hydrogen fueling and storage infrastructure, is now available at http://hyram.sandia.gov. HyRAM integrates models, methods and data used to inform fire codes to create a common platform for assessing hydrogen safety. HyRAM makes this information accessible to …
You consider hydrogen being an dangerous substance? In the contrary, hydrogen is potentially very healthy. Just do a internet search (e.g. on Scholar Google) for “hydrogen as therapeutic medical gas” and you will find a steadily increasing number of scientific publications showing positive effects of molecular hydrogen on treating many deseases. So you …
There is an open public online consultation on the development of a comprehensive, integrated Research, Innovation, and Competitiveness Strategy for the Energy Union. As a Brussels based organisation HySafe will provide input based on the identified research priorities and on the concept of a Hydrogen Safety Panel. If you want …
The key findings of the last Research Priorities Workshop, organised 2014 in Washington together with the US DoE, have been published in a dedicated report via Sandia National Laboratory Print Services. You can directly download the report alternatively using this link.
HySafe is planning a special session at WHEC2016 in Zaragoza. A time slot has been reserved on Wed June 15 (before the Gala dinner). The proposed agenda for the “Hydrogen Safety and International Standardization with a Focus on Europe” session currently follows: 18:15 Welcome: HySafe and IAHE Safety Division (Jordan, Tchouvelev) including …
For all who could not attend the ICHS2015 or wanted to recover specific presentations besides the papers included in the proceedings, HySafe now offers free access to this unique and still fresh information. Under http://www.ichs2015.com/index.php/presentations you will find almost all of the more than 100 presentations on hydrogen safety related issues. …
HySafe is pleased to welcome Shell Global Solutions Ltd. as a new full member of the Association in the industry category. Shell will be represented by Pratap Sathiah. Their membership follows the highly valuable contributions of Shell and their most recent representative, Les Shirvill, to the ICHS conference series and …
In the German newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” on 16th of February 2016 there was an interesting article about daily risks titled “You should not forget to enjoy”. It was referring to a unit measuring individual risk called micromort. The definition of lethalities among one million people goes back to a publication …
As mentioned at our last general assembly a small sub-team of the executive board submitted a proposal referring to a topic of the 2015 call of the EC joint undertaking. However, the proposal “BestPractHyS”, which was designed to collect best practice and use of standards in designing, building, installing, permitting …
The preparations for the International Conference for Hydrogen Safety (www.ichs2015.com) are on the way. The call for abstracts was very successful with more than 150 abstracts received. Based on this input a draft program will be designed and the authors are requested to send their full papers within the next …
