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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 back-to-back with IA HySafe General Assembly (October 15, 2012) and was hosted by BAM in Berlin, Germany.

The main idea of the Workshop was to bring together stakeholders who can address the existing knowledge gaps in the area of the hydrogen safety, including identification and prioritization of such gaps from the standpoint of scientific knowledge, both experimental and theoretical as well as numerical.
The experience highlighting these gaps which was obtained during both practical applications (industry) and risk assessment should serve as reference point for further analysis.

The Workshop, which is essentially a meeting between scientists and industry representatives, included 16 invited lectures covering different aspects of the contemporary status in industrial and research demands.

The program logically included two sections:

• knowledge gaps as they are addressed by industry
• knowledge gaps and state-of-the-art by research.

The presentations are available for download:

1. DeVaal – Smarter Solutions for a Clean Energy Future
2. Ruban – Knowledge Gaps Industry Perspectives
3. Kirchner – Hydrogen Activities of TOTAL Germany
4. Oyama and Kamiya – Commercialization Barriers and Issues for Large Scale Hydrogen Infrastructures
5. Jordan – Transferring Scientific Results into Engineering Correlations
6. LaChance – Information Needed to Support Hydrogen Codes and Standards
7. Hooker – Hydrogen Ignition and Light up Probabilities Part 1
8. Hooker – Hydrogen Ignition and Light up Probabilities Part 2
9. Baraldi-Onboard-Compressed-Hydrogen-Storage-Fast-Filling
10. Paraschivoiu – Simulation of Hydrogen Release from Reservoirs with Irregular and Variable Openings
11. Baraldi-Notional-Nozzle-Models-for-Hydrogen-Releases-from-High-Pressure-Systems
12. Middha – Release and Dispersion Perspectives from GexCon
13. Kessler Kinetics of AlH3 decomposition and subsequent Al oxidation Hydrogen Jetfires
14. Kotchourko – Recent advances and knowledge gaps in hydrogen combustion
15. Vaagsaether – DDT and Detonations – knowledge gaps
16. Molkov – Progress and gaps in hydrogen safety science and engineering
17. Ekoto – R&D Needs for Reduced Order H2 Release and Ignition Behavior Models – The SNL Perspective

The workshop achieved its objective and was a success and brought significant value to its participants and organizers. Next key step, as was discussed and agreed upon by the workshop participants, is the preparation of a comprehensive report that would serve as a guidance document for decision making authorities for funding of pre-normative research in hydrogen safety globally. The report itself then may serve as a platform for a topical lecture at the ICHS in Brussels, while thematically clustered presentations and discussions at the workshop will form foundation for contributed papers to ICHS2013 with their consecutive publication in one of the HySafe special issues of IJHE.

The General Assembly of HySafe was held on October 15 in Berlin on the premises of BAM, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing which is one of the founder members.

One item of the agenda was the election of the committee chairs. The present chairmen were re-elected:

• Hervé Barthélémy (Industry Relations)
• Marco Carcassi (ICHS Conference)
• Alexei Kotchourko (Research)
• Ulrich Schmidtchen (PR and Dissemination)

One important topic in the work plan for the association for 2013 is the International Conference on Hydrogen Safety (ICHS) which will be held in Brussels in 2013 for the 5^th time. It is co-organized by HySafe and JRC (Joint Research Centre) IET of the European Commission. Another is the progress towards an international magazine on hydrogen safety. There is a cooperation with the International Association for Hydrogen Energy which publishes the International Journal for Hydrogen Energy. Some issues will be entirely devoted to the topic of safety in regular intervals.

The Association set the course for expanding its strategic relations with JRC IET, US DoE, IEA HIA and relevant Japanese organizations as well as its research coordination, knowledge dissemination and industry relations activities.

It is planned to hold the next General Assembly in conjunction with the ICHS in September 2013 in Brussels.

A training course on hydrogen safety will be held in October in Berlin in conjunction with the annual meeting of the HySafe members.

Read more and register here

Detailed program etc. will be published here as soon as possible.

An international workshop on hydrogen safety was held on June 3 in Toronto in conjunction with the World Hydrogen Energy Conference (WHEC). Participants from Europe, the Americas, and Asia got useful information about safe laboratories, filling stations, and general handling of hydrogen.

Education is one of the fields of activity of HySafe. The association will continue to prepare events like this. Come back occasionally to this website to learn more about dates and locations.

HySafe is making good progress with the preparations for the 5th International Conference on Hydrogen Safety which will be held from September 9 to 11, 2013, in Brussels. A two-day meeting of the Scientific and Organisational Committees was held on May 3 and 4 in Brussels to discuss scope, budget, technical matters and more. Included was a visit to the venue, the Charlemagne building. The European Commission, host of the ICHS 2013, provided the space for the conference. A member of the EU PR department showed the HySafe officials around and explained the meeting rooms, technical equipment, spaces available for coffee breaks and press conferences, and much more.

The participants left Brussels with the well-founded feeling that this conference as well will be successful and thus form another link of the chain which started in 2005 in Pisa with the first ICHS.

For the second time in sequence HySafe was an exhibitor on the this year on the Group exhibit “Hydrogen and Fuel Cells” in the framework of the Hannover Fair 2012. The group exhibit, held for the 18th time this year, is a unique forum for the whole field of hydrogen technology, and of course safety relevant issues are associated with many of the products or processes presented there. The HySafe booth served as a contact point for people interested in these.

Read more about the show on http://www.h2fc-fair.com

To participate please fill out the following registration form:

Link to registration form

The fulfilled registration form has to be sent back until August 9, 2011.

Participants in the $ zone will address the registration form to Lynde Farhat while the euro zone participants will send it to Ulrich Schmidtchen.