Themes and Topics
Safety in H2 infrastructure
- Production
- Distribution and transport (pipelines, gaseous and liquid)
- Storage
- Handling and Use
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
- HCNG
Safety in H2 vehicle /station interface
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
Fuel cells and electrolysers related safety issues
- Risk Assessment
- Safety of material
- Normative or Pre-normative
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
- Public Acceptance
- “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
Education, training, lessons learned and best practices
- First responders training
- Databases