Hydrogen Infrastructure Safety Technical Assessment and Research Results Gap Analysis.

摘要

Public acceptance of hydrogen as an energy carrier for transportation and power generation technologies will depend on confidence in the safety of vehicles and power systems, and supporting delivery and storage infrastructure. Ensuring safety of the infrastructure for transporting, storing, and delivering hydrogen will be critical to the successful implementation of a hydrogen economy. Industry is developing new packaging technologies and delivery systems to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of deploying hydrogen to consumer applications. Many technologies use new materials or operate at increased pressure over existing industrial applications of hydrogen. To enable successful introduction of hydrogen into the marketplace, the development of appropriate technical codes, standards, and regulations providing high levels of safety and environmental protection should proceed in parallel with the substantial pace of new technology development. If appropriate codes and standards are not developed in pace with new technology, the risks are twofold: 1. The lack of appropriate safety requirements could result in delayed technology introduction, lowered technology adoption rates, or unnecessary additional costs to deploy new technologies. 2. Technologies could be introduced and adopted which, to some degree, pose unnecessary safety and/or property risks. This report identifies gaps in the current hydrogen technology base, and recommends solutions to U.S. DOT for closing these gaps.