ExpectedOutcome:International regulations addressing CO2 emissions are forcing all industries to rethink their processes to become more sustainable. When it comes to the heavy-duty transport or shipping industry for instance, the use of liquified hydrogen (also referred to as liquid hydrogen or LH2) as an energy carrier and/or fuel appears essential in the short- to mid-term to reach the set objectives.
Transfer of LH2 and its technical handling is relatively well known for industrial gas or space applications. However, experience with LH2 in public and populated areas in new distribution applications, such as truck refuelling stations or port bunkering stations for example, is limited or non-existent.
Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
Detailed risk analysis (hazard identification, frequency and consequence assessment) for LH2 transferring operations for ships, trucks and stationary tanks fillings;Generic hazard (or safety) distances for LH2 transferring operations in the different applications, also addressing the possible presence of SimOps (Simultaneous Operations), to be implemented in codes...
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ExpectedOutcome:International regulations addressing CO2 emissions are forcing all industries to rethink their processes to become more sustainable. When it comes to the heavy-duty transport or shipping industry for instance, the use of liquified hydrogen (also referred to as liquid hydrogen or LH2) as an energy carrier and/or fuel appears essential in the short- to mid-term to reach the set objectives.
Transfer of LH2 and its technical handling is relatively well known for industrial gas or space applications. However, experience with LH2 in public and populated areas in new distribution applications, such as truck refuelling stations or port bunkering stations for example, is limited or non-existent.
Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
Detailed risk analysis (hazard identification, frequency and consequence assessment) for LH2 transferring operations for ships, trucks and stationary tanks fillings;Generic hazard (or safety) distances for LH2 transferring operations in the different applications, also addressing the possible presence of SimOps (Simultaneous Operations), to be implemented in codes and standards and to be suggested as first estimates for permitting;Guidelines for design of LH2 transferring facilities (safety barriers, mitigation devices, layout, fire protection, pad material, venting );Consensual loading procedures (hose connection & disconnection, purging, grounding, instrumentation, certification of personnel) for LH2 transferring operations;Disseminate the project outcomes to authorities (giving permits), notified bodies and other industrial actors; Provide science-based inputs to appropriate international standardisation activities. Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following objectives of the Clean Hydrogen JU SRIA: (especially for Cross-cutting issues - Area: Safety, Pre-Normative Research and Regulations, Codes and Standards):
Increase the level of safety of hydrogen technologies and applications;Support the development of RCS for hydrogen technologies and applications, with the focus on standards;Contribute to the SRIA KPIs for Safety, PNR & RCS, organising safety workshops (Targets: 2024 = 2 workshops/year, 2030 = 4 workshops/year);Contribute to the SRIA KPIs for Safety, PNR & RCS, providing inputs for developing Standards, Technical Specifications, or Technical Reports at the international level (Targets: 2024 = 0.9 No/ project, 2030 = 1 No/ project).
Scope:The risk management aspects concerning the transfers of LH2 are critical and need to be technically addressed to provide a solid basis for future standardisation and safety regulation. The project should provide practical outputs (as safe procedures and installation/implantation rules) based on the current LH2 hazards knowledge available and/or developed in previous projects, such us the FCH 2 JU PRESLHY and HyResponder projects[1] for instance.
Proposals should:
Define at least, but not limited to, 3 applications related to hydrogen mobility involving LH2 transfer such as filling a stationary tank, bunkering of ships or refuelling a truck;Define the LH2 transfer devices (hoses, vents) and operational conditions (mass flow rate, temperature, pressure);Perform a risk analysis of the operations for each application including the definition of the accidental scenarios, their quantification in frequencies and consequences;Propose safety barriers, suitable hazard zoning strategies and separation distances and validate their efficiency;Analyse the possible hazards and risks of co-activities and simultaneous operations and determine, if needed, additional validated barriers and separation distances;Disseminate risk-based recommendations and guidelines on LH2 transferring facilities; Develop and disseminate consensual loading procedures (hose connection & disconnection, purging, grounding, instrumentation, certification of personnel) for LH2 transferring operations;Provide science-based recommendations, guidelines and procedures to the concerned industry groups and standardisation committees. Proposals should identify and target the relevant standard(s) at the scope and activities should envisage links and synergies with existing platforms and/or projects on LH2 as well as means of collaboration with similar activities ongoing internationally. Proposals are encouraged to include a formal standardisation body within the consortium.
Proposals are expected to contribute towards the activities of Mission Innovation 2.0 - Clean Hydrogen Mission. Cooperation with entities from Clean Hydrogen Mission member countries, which are neither EU Member States nor Horizon Europe Associated countries, is encouraged (see section 2.2.6.8 International Cooperation).
The conditions related to this topic are provided in the chapter 2.2.3.2 of the Clean Hydrogen JU 2022 Annual Work Plan and in the General Annexes to the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021–2022 which apply mutatis mutandis.
[1]https://www.clean-hydrogen.europa.eu/projects-repository_en
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