Poster

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NoE HySafeSafety of Hydrogen as an Energy
Carrier
www.hysafe.net coordinator_at_hysafe.net
Work Package and Clusters
Background
In Europe there are many research activities in
the field of hydrogen safety. These activities
are heterogeneous, fragmented, and not well
connected. Most of the experience and knowledge
is coming from nuclear safety, from gas and oil
and from aerospace industries. The largest
amounts of hydrogen are used safely in chemical
industries in a professional environment with
specially educated staff. However, experience
with hydrogen in a private environment is lacking
completely. Therefore the EC is supporting the
integration of the research activities with the
help of a new instrument, the Network of
Excellence (NoE). The NoE HySafe should provide
an integrated harmonised scientific basis for the
safe introduction of hydrogen as an energy
carrier, and shall contribute to the public
awareness by generating an excellent safety
culture.

• Internal Projects Following the Current HySafe
  Headlines
• Releases in (partially) confined spaces
• Detection and Mitigation

• Internal Project InsHyde
• Investigation of non-catastrophic releases in
  confined areas/rooms
• Determination of permeation and release limits
• Systematic assessment of sensor and mitigation
  requirements
• Related simulations and experimental verification
• Recommendations for electrical equipment,
  ventilation requirements, etc

HySafe Facts

• Goal long term integration of the EU research
  activities related to hydrogen safety
• Integration of experimental facilities, numerical
  tools and staff by coordinated joint research
  activities
• Creating public awareness and trust in the safety
  of hydrogen technologies
• Consortium 24 partners from 12 EU countries 1
  partner from Canada (5 universities, 7 industry
  partners and 13 public research labiratories)
• Co-ordinator Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
• HySafe is currently the only international IPHE
  ackowledged safety project
• Started 03/2004, 5 years co-financing by the EC
• Further details and publications on
  www.hysafe.net

Proposal for a news experiment to study
H2 behaviour in confined spaces

• Internal Project HyTunnel
• Tunnel accidents are in the public focus. The EC
  tunnel safety directive does not cover
• hydrogen issues. To save the heavy investments in
  tunnel equipment the requirements
• for future hydrogen driven land vehicles are
  assessed in this two step project.
• Step I
• Selection of critical, but broadly accepted
  scenarios
• Review of available experimental results and
  simulation analyses
• Qualitative evaluation of the efficiency and
  compatibility of existing mitigation
• measures (active ventilation, sprays, etc)
• Step II
• Experimental program (in cooperation with other
  EC tunnel projects)
• Proposal for an addendum to the EC Safe Tunnel
  Directive

Activity Matrix
Project funded by the European Commission
SES6-CT-2004-502630