IA HySafe organizes September 9th 2011 a workshop about Hydrogen Safety.
The workshop will be held in the Hotel Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco (California, USA) (http://www.fishermanswharf.hyatt.com)
This workshop is addressed to students and engineers who want to learn more about:
• General safety aspects
• Hydrogen properties
• Explosions
• Diffusion and embrittlement
• Regulations and standards concerning Hydrogen
• Practical applications (How to build a safe laboratory; How to build a safe filling station)
• Practical experience (Common misconceptions, Accident histories)
The whole program will be published soon.
Latest News
IEA HIA Task 19 Meeting
The IEA HIA Task 19 meeting successfully decided on its final products presentation and determined some first details of the possible future safety task. More than 20 experts from 6 countries and two representatives of the US DoE met in Washington to accomplish what was planned for an earlier meeting in Rome, which had to be cancelled due flight cancellations caused by the the vulcano ashes.
The next meeting will take place in September or October this year possibly in Rome. Soon after this meeting white papers, position papers and a final report will be issued. Dissemination via workshops is under preparation.
The new task will likely be extended by a broader participation including new countries and possibly industry partners.
Again the ignition mystery, and again toy balloons
Exploding hydrogen filled balloons injured several people in China during a celebration act. Friction between balloons is suspected to generate static electricity, providing then the ignition for the accident. For details see e.g. http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-05/530686.html
2nd FCH JU Brokerage Event on May 17th 2010 at the WHEC 2010
In June 2010, the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) will launch its 2010 Call for project proposals. To help our members with the preparation of drafting proposals and search for the right consortium partners, NEW-IG and N.ERGHY will organise the 2nd FCH JU Brokerage Event, in Essen, Germany during the second day of the World Hydrogen Economy Council (WHEC). This 3-hour international event will take place on Monday, 17 May.
All details and application for participation on http://ec.europa.eu/research/fch/index_en.cfm?pg=call2010
Presentations of the German NIP Full Assembly
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.
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.
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.
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