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Safe Handling of Hydrogen – practice seminar

Start Date: 12 April, 2011 End Date: 14 April, 2011
Location: Ulm, Germany

The practical seminar “Security issues in dealing with hydrogen” organized by WBZU,  conveys important knowledge for the safe handling of hydrogen-powered fuel cell systems. The first two days of the three days of training provide the basics in theory and practice. The third day dealt with issues specific to the handling of hydrogen in vehicles.

The seminar is designed for people who deal with hydrogen in their everyday work.Safety aspects play an important role in all stages of product development. But even when the users play a vital security role. Therefore they must be accurate information on the specifics of hydrogen:

• Engineers, designers, engineers
• Researchers and Developers
• Process Engineer
• Safety experts
• user, such as artisans, service personnel

Topics

• Fundamentals of hydrogen and fuel cells
• Hydrogen: Properties and Hazards
• Production, storage and distribution of hydrogen
• Dealing with hydrogen in practice
• rules of conduct in case of failure: material and material selection
• Dealing with hydrogen in the working areas
• Transport of H ₂ -filled vehicles
• Explosion protection
• Internships: compression type and O-ring fittings, leakage test, embodiments based on test stands
• Security in hydrogen vehicles
• Legal regulations in Germany
• Draft ECE Directive
• Responsible person and professional
• Safety

More information: wbzu

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