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Safety-barrier diagrams as a tool for modelling safety of hydrogen applications

Type of Publication
Year of Publication
2009
Authors

N.J. Duijm; F. Markert

Abstract

Safety-barrier diagrams have proven to be a useful tool in documenting the safety measures taken to prevent incidents and accidents in process industry. Especially during the introduction of new hydrogen technologies or applications, as e.g. hydrogen refuelling stations, safety-barrier diagrams are considered a valuable supplement to other traditional risk analysis tools to support the communication with authorities and other stakeholders during the permitting process. Another advantage of safety-barrier diagrams is that they highlight the importance of functional and reliable safety barriers in any system and here is a direct focus on those barriers that need to be subject to safety management in terms of design and installation, operational use, inspection and monitoring, and maintenance. Safety-barrier diagrams support both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The paper will describe the background and syntax of the methodology and demonstrate the usefulness of such diagrams for hydrogen technologies. (C) 2009 International Association for Hydrogen Energy. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

DOI

10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.02.002

Volume

34

Notes

Times Cited: 4 2nd International Conference on Hydrogen Safety Sep, 2007 San Sebastian, SPAIN 5

Pagination

5862-5868

Number
14
ISSN Number

0360-3199

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