Informal Report on ISO
TC 197 Plenary Meeting
Karen Hall, National Hydrogen Association
ISO
TC 197, Hydrogen Technologies, held its 2006 annual plenary on June 8 in
conjunction with the 16th World Hydrogen Energy Conference (WHEC). AFNOR, the
member body from France, hosted the meeting, along with meetings of working groups,
at its facility in Saint Denis, on the outskirts of Paris.
Very brief summary
reports for the work items are provided here. These are informal, and based on
my own notes taken at the Plenary meeting. Formal minutes will be provided to
member countries of ISO TC 197 at a later date. The key for abbreviations and
acronyms is as follows:
| CD:
Committee Draft | Cor: Corrigendum | | DIS:
Draft International Standard | DTC: Draft
Technical Corrigendum | | DTS:
Draft Technical Specification | FDIS: Final
Draft International Standard | | IS:
International Standard | TS: Technical
Specification | | WD:
Working Draft | WG: Working Group | | WI:
Work Item | |
The proposed dates
for publications of all work items are as follows:
WG1: WI 13985:
Liquid hydrogen - Land vehicle fuel tanks
FDIS: June 2006
IS:
December 2006
WG5: WI 17268: Compressed hydrogen surface vehicle
refuelling connection devices
CD due Dec 2006. No NWIP necessary to
begin revision work, as it is already part of the scope.
Current version is
mainly harmonized with the SAE J2600 standard published in October 2002. The revision
will include more recent changes to the SAE document.
Revision target dates:
CD:
December 2006
DIS: June 2007
FDIS: June 2008
IS: December 2008
WG6:
WI 15869: Gaseous hydrogen and hydrogen blends - Land vehicle fuel tanks
FDIS:
February 2007 based on the US request to extend circulation by 3 months (from
2 months to 5). This document had large number of comments. Addressing each properly
is anticipated to take some time. Therefore the US exercised the right of any
P-member country to request additional time for circulation.
IS August
2007
WG8: WI 22734: Hydrogen generators using water electrolysis
process
Part 1 Industrial and Commercial applications
FDIS:
January 2007
IS: July 2007
Part 2: Residential Applications
DIS: January
2007
FDIS: January 2008
IS: July 2008
The next WG 8 meeting is scheduled
to be held during the week of August 28, 2006 at Air Liquide in Paris
WG9:
WI 16110: Hydrogen generators using fuel processing technologies
WG9
met this week in Paris for two days, and made good progress. There are two parts
to this work - Safety and Performance. The WG discussed comments on the DIS for
Part 1 - Safety. There were 170 comments received. The draft FDIS is scheduled
to be sent to Secretary next week. Part 2 - Performance is still a Working Draft.
The WG made progress and finalized the work to be done. Critical issues were raised
by Japan with respect to the calculation of efficiency. This is a sensitive subject.
The WG decided to leave the efficiency equation out of the standard. How to determine
inputs and outputs will be addressed.
Part 1 safety:
FDIS: September
2006
IS: March 2007
Part 2 test methods for performance
CD: September
2006
DIS: March 2007
FDIS: March 2008
IS: September 2008
WG10:
WI 16111: Transportable gas storage devices - Hydrogen absorbed in reversible
metal hydrides
Ned Stetson reviewed what happened in Palm Springs -
the WG is preparing a TS concurrent with a DIS due to the need for a standard
that can be referenced. In May, the Central Secretariat sent word that TC 58 also
needed to approve the document. WG10 met yesterday to discuss comments received
from the 2nd CD circulation. Clean-up of the document based on these comments
is in progress. The Convener expects the draft should be sent to Secretary in
July. The goal of the Working Group is to have the TS approved before the next
meeting of the United Nations Subcommittee on Dangerous Goods.
DTS: July
2006
TS: December 2006
DIS: March 2007
FDIS: March 2008
IS: September
2008
WG11: WI 20012: Gaseous hydrogen- Fuelling stations
The
next meeting is planned for the week of August 28 in Paris.
DTS: February
2007
TS: August 2007
The Convener stated he anticipates the draft may need
a lot of editing work, based on WG8 editing comments, which are being considered
for this document
WG12: WI 14687: Hydrogen fuel - Product Specification
There are two work items in this Working Group: ISO/DTS 14687-2: Hydrogen Fuel
- Product Specification - Part 2: PEM fuel cell applications for road vehicles;
and
Cor 2 to ISO 14687:1999. The Corregendum is to remove PEM fuel cell for
road vehicles from ISO 14687:1999, and the draft T.S. is to define requirements
for these applications. The two work items are to be released simultaneously.
DTC:
July 2006
DTS: July 2006
TS: October 2006
CD: October 2007
DIS: October
2008
FDIS: October 2009
IS: April 2010
Sylvie Gingras sent her Editing
Committee comments on the draft TS to WG 12 and Karen Hall (also a member of the
Technical Editing Committee) simultaneously. Karen asked the procedure/mechanism
to resolve the issue that the editing isn't done, and the WG is working with a
document with incomplete editing. Sylvie and Karen are to work out any issues
with the Technical Editing changes received so far off-line. WG 12 should proceed
with best version possible at their meeting tomorrow.
WG13: WI 26142:
Hydrogen detectors
CD: September 2006
DIS: May 2007
FDIS:
May 2008
IS: September 2008
Many comments were received on the 2nd draft.
The WG didn't get through all of them yesterday. The 3rd meeting is planned for
the end of October. The document is expected to then move to the CD stage. The
WG generated a revision to their scope, which must be approved by TC 197. After
much discussion, the proposed changes were not supported. Some members of TC 197
suggested the scope focus on the function - multilevel sensing - rather than application.
The rationale was that it is not up to us to say where this standard is to be
applied, but to define requirements for a hydrogen-specific detector that indicates
levels of hydrogen. Other members suggested the scope be limited to hydrogen refueling
stations, as this work item was originally proposed, to avoid application spread.
TC 197 directed WG 13 to propose a new scope and title to make it clearer, taking
the discussion into account.
TC 31 and TC 197 are building a better relationship
and have an agreement for this WI.
CD: November 2006
DIS: May 2007
FDIS:
May 2008
IS: September 2008
Update on Published standards:
ISO 13984:1999
The recent systematic review has been completed. The result is that TC 197 will
reconfirm this IS.
ISO 14687:1999/Corr 2001 H2 Fuel Product Specification
- A systematic review is to be launched at same time as the DTS and proposed technical
corrigendum are circulated.
176268:2006 was published in April 2006.
There
were no new work item proposals.
Membership - The United Kingdom and India
joined TC 197 as P-members.
Ad hoc group on hydrogen components - estimated
completion date is 30 September 2006. The next step is a meeting of the ad hoc
group to approve the final report is next step.
ISO Round Table on Global
Harmonization of regulations, codes and standards (RC&S) for Gaseous Fuels
and Vehicles: This meeting is scheduled for January 2007 in Geneva. ISO is Inviting
400 participants - and expects about 60 to attend from automotive, industry and
regulatory organizations. See
the meeting announcement on the ISO website.
Next meeting: In conjunction
with the World Hydrogen Technologies Convention WHTC Nov 4-7 2007, Italy has invited
ISO TC 197 to Montecatini Terme (in Tuscany, between Florence and Pisa). In addition,
the 20th World Energy Congress & Exhibition will be held the week of Nov 11-15
in Rome. Italy proposed ISO meetings between these dates. Randy Dey proposed Nov
8 for the ISO TC 197 Plenary, and WG meetings throughout the week of Nov 4.
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