The report of the last Research Priorities Workshop, organised commonly by JRC, US DOE and HySafe in fall 2016 in Petten, The Netherlands, has been finalised and published via the JRC print services. After a preliminary presentation by Jay Keller at the ICHS2017 in Hamburg, the full document provides a …
Our colleague Edit Musci recovered an interesting article of Toyota in the web: https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/toyota-engineers-testing-limits-of-hydrogen-safety
On 12th of March the first time the European Hydrogen Safety Panel EHSP met for designing the first year actions in Brussels. The EHSP will develop a safety guidance document for FCH 2 JU funded projects, will analyse data collected in the European databases and will start further support actions …
Malaga (Spain), 14. March 2018 – The European Hydrogen Energy Conference 2018 (EHEC 2018) was opened today in the Convention Centre of the capital of the Costa del Sol in Spain. Javier Brey, head of the Spanish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, welcomed some 225 participants, of which some 75 …
The deadline for applications for PhD studies at Ulster University in the area of hydrogen safety is 19th of February 2018. Three topics of doctoral studies in hydrogen safety are published at Ulster University website: Prevention and Mitigation of Accidents with Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles in Confined Space (https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/237925) Safety of Liquified …
The pair years workshop will be organised this year in week 37 (September 10-14, 2018) in Buxton, UK. HSL will be the host. A more detailed open invitation will be provided soon by the chairperson of HySafe’s research committee, together with the final electronic version of the report of the …
The next meeting on 9th of February in Brussels will provide information on the new elected chair of the group. The PNR gap analysis and a survey of FCH JU projects will guide preparation of a priority list for PNR/RCS activities. There might be some updates on the European safety …
The European project dedicated to pre-normative research on the safe use of liquid hydrogen LH2 officially started on 1st of January 2018. The three years project will strive to fill current knowledge gaps with regard to dispersion, ignition and combustion of cryogenic hydrogen, LH2 respectively. The recent “hype” on hydrogen …
The call of the European FCH JU for “PNR for safety of hydrogen driven vehicles and transport through tunnels and similar confined spaces” is open! For details see http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/fch-04-1-2018.html Deadline for submitting proposals is 24 April 2018. Because of the limited budget a small preliminary consortium has been formed within HySafe …
In an article labelled “Megatrend fuel cell at the turning point” published in one of the major German newspapers (see https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/bilanz/article172713241/Brennstoffzellen-Ist-Wasserstoff-besser-als-Batterie.html ) the safety topic is addressed with the “HySafe conference”. Although there is a somehow strange summary of the conference findings (safety distance for HFS and investigated scenarios), the general notion …
