Hydrogen Safety Task

• Development of a hydrogen safety integration model (or tool). 
• Development of risk management strategies to ensure safety implementation of hydrogen infrastructure.
• Collection of systems, subsystems, and components reliability (i.e., field failure) data and human error (HE) probabilities (i.e., human factors) to support quantitative risk analysis (QRA).
• Performance of consequence analysis to facilitate the accelerated adoption of hydrogen technologies.

• to develop a user-friendly integrated hydrogen safety model (tool) that facilitates system analysis and determines appropriate risk metrics.
• to provide a systematic approach to determine gaps in current basic and applied research.
• to provide focused activities for all subtasks.
• to provide a framework around which collaborative research programs can be conducted. 
• to collect information on effects of components failures on hydrogen systems and infrastructure
• The above-mentioned objectives are intended to support the overarching goal of enhancing safe implementation of hydrogen-based technologie

• Result/Output/Work Product: An alpha-tested integrated hazards and risk assessment tool kit.

• Result/Output/WorkProduct: Generic baseline system(s) design and configuration to be used for alpha testing and validation of the integrated tool kit (output of Subtask A). Examples include systems, accident scenarios, mitigations and prevention strategies, etc.

• Result/Output/WorkProduct: Validated engineering predictive models, test data (sub-scale or full-scale tests).

• Result/Output/WorkProduct: Identify and quantify human influence on operational safety (out-of-the-box thinking) of hydrogen infrastructure.

• Result/Output/Work_Product: Enhance understanding of hydrogen effects on material properties and mechanical strength by developing physics of failure (PoF) models (e.g., embrittlement modeling, tank liner integrity), testing (e.g., hydrogen permeation tests), and material surface characterization (e.g., XRD analysis …)