ICHS 2017

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HYDROGEN SAFETY

September, 11-13 2017 - Hamburg (Germany)

Conference Structure

ICHS 2017 will include thematic plenary sessions, topical lectures, and parallel oral and poster sessions. The conference seeks to facilitate “enable/strengthen” the near term introduction of hydrogen technologies in the market place.

Contributed papers – Deadlines

Conference attendees who wish to present a paper are required to submit a short abstract (100 words). When submitting the abstract/paper, authors can express a preference for the presenting their work in an oral session or in the poster session or no preference.
Authors whose abstract has been accepted will be asked to submit a full paper which will be peer-reviewed. The evaluation will be forwarded to the Authors by e-mail. All accepted papers (oral and poster) will be published with exactly the same format in the proceedings of the conference.

 

Deadlines for contributed papers are detailed below:

• Abstracts deadline: December 31, 2016
• Abstracts acceptance notification: January 31, 2017
• Full papers submission: March 31, 2017
• Paper acceptance notification: June 1, 2017
• Submission of papers final versions and payment of conference fees: July 15, 2017
• ICHS Conference: September 11-13, 2017

Themes and Topics

Behavior of Gaseous and Liquid Hydrogen and hydrogen mixtures
• Release, dispersion
• Ignition and auto-ignition
• Combustion: fire, deflagration, detonation, transitional effects.

 

Physical effects, consequence analysis
• Thermal, overpressure, missile effects
• Effects on humans and environments
• Incidents, accidents and near misses

 

Hydrogen effects on materials and components
• Embrittlement
• Permeation/blistering.

 

Risk/safety management
• Hazard identification and analysis
• Risk assessment (cost-benefit analysis, safety perception, acceptance and harm criteria, uncertainties, decision making, human factor)
• Risk-informed safety engineering
• Prevention and Mitigation (active, passive, sensors, safety distances)
• Insurance
• Safety solutions and implementation of H2 technologies
• “Outside-the-box” safety

 

Regulations Codes and Standard (RCS)
• Pre-normative research (needs, approaches, incorporation of QRA)
• Post normative experience (case studies)
• Comparison/compatibility with other fuels
• Sensors

 

Education, training, lessons learned and best practices
• First responders training
• Databases

 

Safety in H2 infrastructure
• Production
• Distribution and transport (pipelines, gaseous and liquid)
• Storage
• Handling and Use of H2 Infrastructure

 

H2 fueling stations deployment experience
• Safe design
• Indoor/outdoor fueling
• Permitting
• Public acceptance
• Mitigation practices
• Co-location with other fueling options

• Mixed / blended H2 fueling stations and vehicles

Fuel cells and electrolysers related safety issues
• Risk Assessment
• Safety of material
• Normative or Pre-normative

 

Safety in H2 vehicle /station interface and safety in H2 vehicles
• On-board storage
• Vehicle operation in tunnels and garages
• Public acceptance
• Material handling and operations in warehouses

 

H2 Safety aspects in other applications/industries/technologies
• Chemical plants
• Oil refinery
• Space-aircrafts – unmanned aerial vehicles (drones)
• Nuclear
• Maritime applications e.g., boats, submarines
• Mining industry
• Semiconductor/electronic industries, electrical generators, neutron beams and other fundamental experiments
• Other applications

 

Safety of energy storage
• H2 solid-storage materials
• Grid scale storage
• Power-to-gas / power-to-hydrogen

Author/ presenter instructions

Authors are required to register to the conference. There is a limit of two paper presentations for each registered author.

Each paper accepted for presentation is arranged in an appropriate session. The respective time slot of 20 min is split in 15 min presentation and 5 min reserved for questions/discussion. The session chairs will take care for keeping the time.

Please bring a USB stick with your presentation file(s) (recommended format *.ppt or *.pptx) to the conference and upload it (them) on the system provided there. The preferred format of the presentation is 16:9.
The name of file(s) shall start with the ID number followed by an underscore (like “ID123_Title_Author.ppt”). Further detailed instructions will be provided at the “Speakers Corner”.

Alternatively or additionally you may provide the presentation files before the conference simply by sending them to jordan@kit.edu your presentation

A subset of papers will be suggested for a special issue of the International Journal for Hydrogen Energy.