The 9th annual General Assembly of the HySafe members was held in at the Institute for Energy and Transport of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission near Petten (North Holland, The Netherlands) on September 28. The HySafe members approved the report of the board about what HySafe did …
The final meeting of the EU project HyResponse (Hydrogen Safety and Emergency Response Training for First Responders) was held on September 15, 2016 in Aix-en-Provence, France. The city is the site of the national French school for fire service officers (ENSOSP), which was one of the project partners. During the …
After rupture of a VW Touran CNG vessel during refueling gas company ARAL recommends not to refuel any VW CNG vehicle any further. VW has issued before a recall of about 36000 CNG cars because corrosion problems with the vessels have been known. For further details see http://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2016/09/16/europe-volkswagen-cars-explode-in-gas-stations/#c533fbb6c6b1 for instance …
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) seeks feedback from stakeholders regarding the construction and benefits of a US National Hydrogen Technology Showcase and Training station (HyTeST). The station would serve as a tool for research and development, testing, safety training, and outreach for community and commercial early adopters, …
The 21st World Hydrogen Energy Conference was held in Zaragoza (Spain) from June 13 to 16. A number of presentations had hydrogen safety as topic, but this was not the focus of the conference. HySafe therefore found it useful to arrange a session of its own about this. HySafe president …
The 22nd Group Exhibition on Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Batteries was held this year as part of the Hannover Fair, as it is already a tradition. A record number of 160 exhibitors shared the 5000 m² total area. They looked at the booths and also listened to the presentations given …
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.
