Hydrogen Monitoring Requirements in the Global Technical Regulation on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Preprint

William Buttner, Matthew Post, Lois Boon-Brett, Kevin Hartmann, Max Bubar, L. Bloomfield, Pietro Moretto, Eveline Weidner, Carl Rivkin, Robert Burgess

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Abstract

The United Nations Global Technical Regulation (GTR) Number 13 (Global Technical Regulation on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles) is the defining document regulating safety requirements in hydrogen vehicles, and in particular fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV). GTR Number 13 has been formally implemented and will serve as the basis for the national regulatory standards for FCEV safety in North America (Canada, United States), Japan, Korea, and the European Union. The GTR defines safety requirement for these vehicles, including specifications on the allowable hydrogen levels in vehicle enclosures during in-use and post-crash conditions and on the allowable hydrogen emissions levels in vehicle exhaust during certain modes of normal operation. However, in order to be incorporated into national regulations, that is, in order to be binding, methods to verify compliance to the specific requirements must exist. In a collaborative program, the Sensor Laboratories at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States and the Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy and Transport in the Netherlands have been evaluating and developing analytical methods that can be used to verify compliance to the hydrogen release requirement as specified in the GTR.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages12
StatePublished - 2016
EventInternational Conference on Hydrogen Safety - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 19 Oct 201521 Oct 2015

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Hydrogen Safety
CityYokohama, Japan
Period19/10/1521/10/15

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5400-64074

Keywords

  • fuel cell vehicle
  • global technical regulation
  • hydrogen sensors
  • safety

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