| | The joint
In-Person March/April meeting of the DOE Hydrogen Codes and Standards Coordinating
Committee, the USFCC Codes and Standards Working Group and the NHA Codes and Standards
Committee was the National Codes & Standards Workshop for Hydrogen and Fuel
Cells. The Workshop was convened by NHA in conjunction with its 2005 16th Annual
US Hydrogen Conference and Hydrogen Expo in Washington, DC during the period March
29 - April 1, 2005.
The three organizations have initiated the process
to establish what is being tentatively called the National Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
Codes & Standards Coordinating Committee.
Agenda and Summary of Discussions
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the agenda for the workshop (200Kb PDF)
1.0 Participants
Download the list of registered attendees (47Kb Excel
spreadsheet)
2.0 Review of Anti-Trust Policy
USFCC Codes
and Standards Working Group meetings begin with the reminder to review and follow
the anti-trust guidelines at the following web sites:
http://www.usfcc.com/members/ANTITRUST_GUIDELINES_REV.pdf
and
http://www.usfcc.com/members/Memo_on_Antitrust_Guidelines.pdf
3.0 Report and Feedback Session on the DOE/Sandia/NREL Risk
Assessment Workshop
Chris Moen (Sandia/Livermore) gave the presentation
on the results from the DOE/Sandia/NREL Risk Assessment Workshop held at NREL
on March 10, 2005.
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(425Kb PDF)
4.0 Report of the Work to Develop and International
Codes and Standards Template
Jim Ohi (NREL) reported on the effort to
develop a template for United States participation in international standards
and global technical regulations.
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the presentation (915Kb PDF)
5.0 Report on NHA Codes &
Standards Working Groups
Karen Hall (NHA) reported on the structure and
accomplishments of the working groups comprising NHA's Codes and Standards Committee.
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6.0 Hydrogen Quality/Overview
Jim Ohi (NREL) gave an overview
of the work of ISO TC/197 Working Group 12 (WG12) (Hydrogen Fuel - Product Specification)
to develop a draft ISO Technical Specification for hydrogen for PEM fuel cells
in road vehicles. The objective in developing the Technical Specification is to
establish hydrogen fuel quality specifications for fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) in
demonstration and testing and evaluating programs. It will be incorporated in
ISO 14687 (Hydrogen Fuel - Product Specification) so that it more adequately addresses
requirements for hydrogen-fueled PEM fuel cell road vehicles.
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the presentation (755Kb PDF)
7.0 Activities of the USFCC
Joint Hydrogen Quality Task Force
Bill Collins (UTC Fuel Cells) gave a
status report on the efforts of the USFCC Joint Hydrogen Quality Task Force to
generate a document establishing hydrogen fuel quality requirements for vehicles.
Bill's presentation is attached.
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the presentation (148Kb PDF)
8.0 SAE Activities
Ron Sims (chairman of the SAE Fuel Cell Standards Committee and Consultant to
NREL) reported on the work of SAE's Hydrogen Quality Task Force to develop an
evolving Hydrogen Quality Guideline for the vehicular refueling interface.
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9.0 California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) Actitivities
Adam Gromis (Program Specialist for CaFCP) gave a verbal report on CaFCP hydrogen
quality activities.
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(4504Kb PDF)
10.0 Report on Hydrogen Quality Test Plan
During the working lunch, Jim Ohi (NREL) gave a presentation on the strategy and
plan for testing for impurities in hydrogen for PEM fuel cells for vehicles.
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PDF)
11.0 USFCC Codes and Standards Priorities
Sondra
Ullman (chairperson of USFCC Codes and Standards Working Group) gave a presentation
on the organization's priorities.
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the presentation (32Kb PDF)
12.0 National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA) Activities
Carl Rivkin (NFPA) reported on the status
of NFPA hydrogen-related efforts.
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the presentation (254Kb PDF)
13.0 International Code Council
(ICC) Activities
Darren Meyers (ICC) reported on the status of ICC hydrogen-related
efforts. Of special significance is that ICC management is likely to terminate
the Ad Hoc Committee for Hydrogen Gas. The Committee was instrumental in: (i)
formulating most of the hydrogen-safety related requirements proposed for incorporation
into the ICC family of codes; and (ii) steering them successfully through the
ICC code development process.
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the presentation (214Kb PDF)
14.0 Additional Items of Discussion
14.1 Establishment of the National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Codes and Standards
Coordinating Committee
For the past several years, there have been
several organized hydrogen and/or fuel cell codes and standards coordinating activities
that addressed coordination of codes and standards development efforts across
various CDOs and SDOs and for various applications. Three such organized efforts
are as follows:
- DOE Hydrogen Codes and Standards Coordinating Committee
(HC&SCC)
- USFCC Codes and Standards Working Group
- NHA
Codes and Standards Committee.
For the past several months, the DOE HC&SCC
and the USFCC C&S Working Group have been successfully conducting joint monthly
meetings. The NHA has been involved with the DOE HC&SCC since inception. The
NHA has recently formed a C&S Steering Committee, who will also now participate
in the monthly telecons.
The three organizations are proposing consolidating
their efforts into a single entity that is tentatively being called the National
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Codes and Coordinating Committee. An initial action item
is development of a Mission Statement for the Committee. It might include:
- Working collaboratively to support and facilitate development of needed new
hydrogen and fuel cell codes and standards and/or facilitate incorporation of
safety requirements into existing codes and standards
- Supporting
and facilitating technical/operational consistency and harmonization among and
across codes and standards developed by different organizations
-
Promoting dissemination and sharing of codes and standards development information
- Promoting collaboration in order to facilitate codes and standards
development efforts and minimize needless duplications of efforts
Persons
that volunteered to serve on a task force to develop the Mission Statement were:
- Karen Hall (NHA)
- Russ Hewett (NREL)
- Darren Meyers (ICC)
- Susan
Townsend (Chairperson of the NHA C&S Committee)
- Sondra Ullman (Chairperson
of the USFCC C&S Working Group)
- Robert Wichert (USFCC)
The
starting point in developing the Statement will be the current Mission Statement
for the DOE HC&SCC.
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Statement (92Kb PDF)
Next Meeting
The next meeting of
the National Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Codes and Standards Coordinating Committee
will be a May teleconference meeting:
DATE: May 4th (First Wednesday)
TIME: 3:00 - 4:30 pm EST
2:00 - 3:30 pm CST
1:00 - 2:30 pm MST
Noon
- 1:30 pm PST
The call-in number and pass code (the numbers that USFCC
uses) and the draft agenda will be provided in the FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT in late
April. Likely agenda items will include:
1. How to best utilize the meetings
- with respect to topics to be covered
2. Mission Statement
3. Possibilities
for next In-Person meeting (or workshop)
Next US Tag Team Meeting
The next US TAG Team meeting will be conducted on July 18 - 19, 2005 at the SAE
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