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Full project name
| HySafe "Safety of Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier"
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Project (geographical) scope and type
| European Network of Excellence
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Project acronym
| HySafe
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Project website
| http://www.hysafe.net
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Project main goal(s)
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The overall goal of HySafe is to contribute to the safe transition
to a more sustainable development in Europe by facilitating the
safe introduction of hydrogen technologies and applications.
The objectives of the network include:
- To contribute to common understanding and approaches for addressing hydrogen safety issues
- To integrate the European experience, knowledge hardware and software tools relevant to hydrogen safety
- To integrate and harmonise the fragmented research base
- To provide contributions to EU safety requirements, standards and codes of practice
- To contribute to an improved technical culture on handling hydrogen as an energy carrier
- To promote public acceptance of hydrogen technologies.
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Key issues
| The IPHE recognised HySafe network focuses on safety issues relevant to improving and coordinating the knowledge and understanding of hydrogen safety and to supporting the safe and efficient introduction and commercialisation of hydrogen as an energy carrier of the future.
The research activities are structured along all levels of safety control and along all relevant applications mainly in the private sector.
The required long term integration will be provided by the European Hydrogen Safety Centre, which will be founded by the HySafe consortium during the subsidised phase.
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Funding
| € 13 Mio total budget
including € 7 Mio EC funding (€)
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Project start
| 1 March 2004
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Project end
| 28 February 2009
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Coordinator contact details
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Dr.-Ing. Thomas Jordan
Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technologies IKET
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen/ Germany
Tel.: +49 7247 82 6105
Fax: +49 7247 82 4777
Email: coordinator@hysafe.net
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List of participants (organisation name, country)
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- Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH DE
- L’Air Liquide FR
- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing DE
- BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH DE
- Building Research Establishment Ltd UK
- Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique FR
- Det Norske Veritas AS NO
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft ICT DE
- Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH DE
- GexCon AS NO
- The United Kingdom’s Health and Safety Laboratory UK
- Foundation INASMET ES
- Inst. Nat. de l’Environnement industriel et des RISques FR
- European Commission - JRC - Institute for Energy NL
- National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos EL
- Norsk Hydro ASA NO
- Risø National Laboratory DK
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute RUS
- TNO NL
- University of Calgary CA
- University of Pisa IT
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ES
- University of Ulster UK
- VOLVO Technology Corporation SE
- Warsaw University of Technology PL
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Organisational structure
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15 Work Packages in 4 Clusters
Work package / project title Work-package / project no Lead contractor
Cluster Phenomena
Hydrogen release, mixing and distribution WP8 NSCRD
Hydrogen ignition and jet fires WP9 HSL
Hydrogen Explosions WP10 FZK
Mitigation WP11 NH
Material Compatibility and Structural Integrity WP18 INASMET
Cluster Tools
Integration of Experimental Facilities WP2 FZJ
Numerical Tools WP6 FZK
Risk assessment methodologies WP12 DNV
Cluster Dissemination
Biennial Report on Hydrogen Safety WP1 INERIS
Hydrogen Incident and Accident Database WP5 DNV
Conference on Hydrogen Safety WP14 UNIPI
E-Academy WP15 UU
Contribution to Standards and Legal Requirements WP16 INERIS
Cluster Management
Strategies WP7 CEA
Management (incl. PMO) WP17 FZK
Internal Projects
InsHyde IP.1 NCSRD
HyTunnel IP.2 BRE
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Technical approach
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Research fragments are reoriented and integrated in Internal Projects like “InsHyde” and “HyTunnel” following the research headlines:
Other activities (see http://www.hysafe.net/WPlist) are conducted in a highly collaborative manner grouped in activity clusters
Cluster “Tools”:
- Creation of a set of specialised research facilities
- Establishment of an open hydrogen incident and accident database
- Identification of a set of specialised complementary codes and models that can be used for consequence analyses and safety studies
- Developing, harmonising and validating methodologies for risk assessments
Cluster “Phenomena”
- Promoting fundamental research necessary to address hydrogen safety issues
- Extracting net outcomes from safety and risk assessment and the safety relevant experience gained in other EC funded projects
Cluster “Dissemination”
- Disseminating the results through a ‘HySafe’ website, the Biennial Report on Hydrogen Safety, and the Biennial International Conference on Hydrogen Safety (ICHS)
- Organising training and educational programmes on hydrogen safety, including on-line mode (e-Academy)
- Studies as input to EU-legal requirements, standards and codes of practice
Expected achievements/impact
- Progress in common understanding of hydrogen safety and risk
- Harmonised tools for safety and risk assessment, including a database for incidences and a Handbook for Hydrogen Safety
- Support the harmonisation of standards, by providing the unambiguous scientific basis, especially where the standards are designed for safe, robust and reliable solutions for hydrogen applications
- A framework for training and education
- A safety roadmap for future progress
All above integrated, maintained and disseminated by the European Hydrogen Safety Centre to be founded by the HySafe drivers.
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Results, achievements
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- Early IPHE recognition of HySafe
- On-line catalogue of all relevant European experimental facilities
- On-line Questionnaire, expert surveys and PIRT study to define research headlines and identify safety relevant knowledge gaps
- Handbook for Hydrogen Safety
- Huge online database for hydrogen industries (>1000 entries) and hydrogen safety bibliography
- Successful organisation and IPHE integration of the International Conference for Hydrogen Safety (300+ participants)
- Successful initiation of the First Hydrogen Safety Summer School HYCOURSE and early stage training network HYSAFEST
- 4 further proposals for new projects to the EC (e.g. HYPER, HYFIT)
- Incidence and accident database HIAD with more than 200 entries; tutorials etc.
- Organisation of 6 special workshops/information exchange meetings on experiments and instrumentation
- Highly dynamic website www.hysafe.net with several communication features
- 120 deliverables partially publicly accessible on http://www.hysafe.net/deliverable
- Founding the International Association for Hydrogen Safety IA HySafe
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