EHA Project Info

HyFacts is a “Coordination and Support Action (CSA)” and aims to develop and initiate dissemination of training material for Regulators and Public Safety Officials, which are responsible persons and work for entities, having to position themselves in the increasing number of upcoming installation of hydrogen-related technologies in public areas, companies, universities, research centers, fairgrounds, harbor sites and other places where fuel cell and hydrogen (FCH) installations and mobile applications shall be installed and operated in the near future.
EHA in collaboration with FAST, will assist in identifying target audience and facilitate the understanding of the needs of requirements of training material.

The project is focused on the development of educational programmes and training initiatives for technical professionals to secure the required mid- and long-term availability of human resources capable to properly operate the technologies safely.
This will be done for various educational levels, including several countries with different experiences on the matter.

Cooperation with other educational programs like Leonardo will be sought to launch new initiatives and projects which allow getting enough well-trained work force related to hydrogen technologies in a near future.

The EHA in collaboration with the Italian Federation of Scientific and Technical Associations, FAST, is supporting the dissemination of this project.

To provide a forum for debate and creative thinking regarding the opportunities of educational and training activities related to hydrogen technologies, improve public acceptance and perceptions of the hydrogen technologies and fuel cells, create a point to exchange knowledge, experiences and educational materials with stakeholders, building visibility.

The main aim of this project is to demonstrate the market readiness of fuel cell applied materials handling vehicles and associated hydrogen refuelling infrastructure. It will demonstrate 10 FC Fork Lift Trucks and associated hydrogen refueling infrastructure across 3 sites in Turkey, UK, and Spain. The science and technology objectives of this project are to compare incumbent  technologies (diesel, LPG and batteris) used in materials handling equipment (up to 50kW) to the performance of current State-o-Art (SoA) Fuel Cell and hydrogen equivalents.  These objectives will be achieved across targeted demonstrations in Europe.  The demonstration will be used to gather real experience and performance data to support future commercialization.  In addition it is proposed to  determine an optimum vehicle configeration (both OEMs supplied and retrofit vehicles) for use in future demonstrations as part of continuation plan to identify ten future sites with in Europe. The EHA in collaboration with the Italian Federation of Scientific and Technical Associations, FAST, will be supporting  the tasks of dissemination of results of the project to a wide number of key potential stakeholders, and to develop a Continuation Plan for wider commercialisation to include a further 10 site deployments, the first potentially being in Greece.

The project FC-HyGuide aims to develop a guidance manual for LCA of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen based systems and related training materials and courses. This will be in line with the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook. Together with specific examples this document will offer step by step guidance for LCA practitioners in industry as well as for researchers. The concept for this guidance document relates back to an international standardized procedure: the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) System (ISO 14025). Following this procedure a flexible and modular approach can be adopted. The EHA in collaboration with the Italian Federation of Scientific and Technical Associations, FAST,  is supporting the dissemination of this project. Improving the acceptance and applicability of the guidance document, during the project a strong and active involvement of relevant stakeholders and a public consultation is foreseen in April 2011. The EHA through its industry and national association members encourages the contribution of industry and research stakeholders to contribute actively to the development of this manual. Two multidisciplinary consortia with eleven specifically experienced partners lead by PE INTERNATIONAL and ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) run this project from October 2010 until [...]