Study investigating the safety of hydrogen as fuel on ships

Date

Published
10.07.2024
Updated
14.11.2024
Biofuels_cover_V0.3.pngPart 1 of the report includes an analysis of hydrogen’s main characteristics to frame which safety hazards, system threats and risks to be considered and mitigated when using hydrogen as ship fuel. Natural gas – for which the IGF Code has put internationally recognised safety barriers in place to ensure its safe use – is used as a benchmark. Established principles for mitigation and control, and lessons learned from hydrogen accidents are briefly reviewed. Hydrogen modelling techniques and tools are validated. Statutory regulations and classification rules, standards, and best practices relevant to hydrogen-fuelled ships are reviewed to identify hazards and risks considered and mitigated in existing rules and regulations.
Biofuels_cover_V0.3.pngPart 2 reports on the results of the reliability and safety analysis of equipment and safety-critical systems used in hydrogen-fuelled ships. The results of this analysis, including the identification of potential failure modes, are used to develop a framework for modelling risks in hydrogen-fuelled ships that will be the basis for the following tasks in the study.