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Series of workshops on safety of cryogenic hydrogen transfer technologies

Workshop No. 3

7^th June 2024, Virtual event

We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd workshop organised within ELVHYS project on enhancing safety of liquid and vaporised hydrogen transfer technologies in public areas for mobile applications. Speakers from ELVHYS consortium and stakeholders advisory board as well as external experts will present a throughout overview on progress in modelling and development of fuelling/bunkering procedures.

Programme and info

Date and venue

The workshop will be held on the 7th June 2024 as a virtual event. Upon registration, you will receive the updates and dial-in information prior to the event.

Register now to not miss this unique event!

The workshop attendance is free of charge. The maximum number of attendees is limited and applications for participation will be considered on a first come first served basis.

Register to the workshop

Organiser’s contacts – please contact for any assistance:

• F. Ustolin, federico.ustolin@ntnu.no
• A. Venetsanos, venets@ipta.demokritos.gr
• D. Cirrone, d.cirrone@ulster.ac.uk

Acknowledgements 

ELVHYS project No. 101101381 is supported by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership and its members. UK participants in Horizon Europe Project ELVHYS are supported by UKRI grant numbers 10063519 (University of Ulster) and 10070592 (Health and Safety Executive).

At the AGM this week in Quebec City, the General Assembly elected Nick Smith as President of HySafe.

Nick brings extensive governance and commercial experience, along with his hydrogen expertise,  to the role and has been Vice President for the last 3 years succeeding Stuart Hawksworth as President.

In addition the General Assembly voted to elect the following members to the executive board for the first time:

Vice President: Rita Liang

Industry Chair: Lee Phillips

While our current Communications Chair, Kate Jeffery was re-elected in that role and Thomas Jordan was elected to the role of Treasurer.

We would like to congratulate Nick, Rita, Lee, Kate and Thomas on their election and look forward to working with them in the future.

The General Assembly also voted to give Honorary Membership of the association to Stuart Hawksworth in recognition of his long service and leadership over the last 4 years as President and prior to that in a variety of roles. 

Congratulations Stuart and thank you for your leadership and effort particularly over the last 2 challenging years of Covid interruptions.

Korea Gas Safety’s HoYun Joe provided a presentation on their ICHS2025 bid which was widely supported and we look forward to working with KGS on future planning and development.

Quebec City – Fairmont Le Château Frontenac

We are delighted to have held our first IAHySafe’s in-person event since COVID – the Research Priorities Workshop. Presentations and detailed discussions from 24 of the leading world hydrogen safety experts. We have defined and ranked the most immediate research priorities needed to safely advance the deployment of hydrogen technologies. Our report summary will be published shortly.

Engineering Design, Risk Assessment, and Codes and Standard 1st Edition –  2022

IAHySafe is delighted to release the Hydrogen Safety for Energy Applications Handbook.

Hydrogen Safety for Energy Applications – 1st Edition (elsevier.com)

Published by Elsevier earlier this year this book provides: Engineering Design, Risk Assessment, and Codes and Standards different aspects of contemporary knowledge regarding the hazards, risks and safety connected with hydrogen systems. Sections cover the main hydrogen technologies and explore the scientific aspects of possible sources and consequences of accidental events that can occur when hydrogen is used, including in its vehicular applications. Risk assessment, as well as the safety measures/safety barriers applicable in such situations are also considered. Finally, a short survey concerning legal aspects is presented.

 IAHySafe members receive a discount when purchasing the book from Elsevier, log into members area to access the promotion code.

Dr Stuart Hawksworth delivered a plenary presentation on the safety of hydrogen in the energy system at the recent world hydrogen energy conference (WHEC) 2022 held in Istanbul. A fantastic opportunity to instill the crucial messages of managing hydrogen safety to international industry groups.

The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) to set up a test platform for the safe operation of hydrogen and hydrogen-natural gas pipelines. The facility will provide the opportunity to answer safety-related questions quickly and in a practical manner in order to accelerate the market ramp-up.

The focus is on investigations that have to be carried out on a real scale and also under critical operating conditions. In our planning, it is important to us to consider the questions, needs and priorities from industry and research. For this we need your support. Under the following link you will find a survey on important issues and questions in context with the operation of pipelines with hydrogen on which we would like to have your assessment.

The survey is open until July 31. The time required is about 10 minutes. We look forward to a lively participation and thank you for your assistance! Please feel free to forward this questionnaire to interested third parties and distribute it in your networks.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact ModuH2Pipe@bam.de.

Dissemination conference for the project HyTunnel-CS ( “Pre-normative research for safety of hydrogen driven vehicles and transport through tunnels and similar confined spaces”) will take place 14-15 July 2022, the Hotel, 38 Boulevard de Waterloo, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium.

PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE HERE (free of charge)

DETAILED AGENDA IS AVAILABLE HERE

The project aimed at performing pre-normative research for safety of hydrogen driven vehicles and transport through tunnels and similar confined spaces.

The project partners will present the project research outcomes including:

• Principles of inherently safer design of hydrogen vehicles for use in confined spaces;
• Results of experimental programme in large-scale real and scaled tunnels;
• Analytical and numerical models and engineering tools for assessment of thermal and pressure hazards developed in the project;
• Experimental and numerical studies on jet fire and blast wave interaction with tunnel structure;
• Examples of QRA analysis of hydrogen vehicles in tunnels and underground parking;
• Interaction of hydrogen vehicle fire and explosion with conventional tunnel safety systems;
• Breakthrough safety technology of explosion free in a fire TPRD-less tank;
• Major public deliverables, i.e.
• “Recommendations for inherently safer use of hydrogen vehicles in underground traffic systems”,
• “Recommendations for RCS”,
• “Harmonised recommendations on response to hydrogen accidents”.