Statistics, lessons learnt and recommendations from analysis of HIAD 2.0 database
Jennifer X Wen ( University of Warwick)
Abstract
The Hydrogen Incidents and Accidents Database (HIAD) is an international open communication platform collecting systematic data on hydrogen-related undesired events (incidents or accidents). It was initially developed in the frame of HySafe, an EC co-funded Network of Excellence by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) and updated by JRC as HIAD 2.0 in 2016 with the support of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (FCH 2 JU). Since the launch of the European Hydrogen Safety Panel (EHSP) initiative in 2017 by FCH 2 JU, the EHSP has worked closely with JRC to enlarge and improve HAID and analyze them to gather statistics, lessons learnt and recommendations through Task Force TF3. The first report summarizing the findings of was published by FCH 2 JU in September 2019. Subsequently, the EHSP and JRC have continuously enlarged HIAD with newly occurred events as well as some historic events which were not previously uploaded to HIAD 2.0. This has facilitated the number of validated events in HIAD 2.0 to increase from 272 in 2018 to currently 593; and the overall quality of the published events has also been improved. Recently, EHSP has analyzed the lessons learnt and recommendation from the newly added events which were consolidated before July 2020 and conducted statistics analysis. While an updated report is being prepared by EHSP based on this analysis, this presentation summarizes the key findings.