TY - CONF A1 - Askar, Enis T1 - HICON Experimental Campaign 3 - Ignition of Hydrogen due to Single Impact N2 - The experimental campaigns within HICON aim to obtain quantitative and qualitative data through experiments for statistics and understanding of ignition probabilities. Based on that hydrogen ignition models are developed transfering the risk-based models from the natural gas applications. Within the presented experimental campaign the focus was on impacts with gravel and with contaminated surfaces. It was found that the ignition probabilty of hydrogen atmospheres by mechanical impacts can be highly increased when gravel is involved and when surfaces are contaminated with oil or with fine sand (sandblasted surfaces), while natural gas atmospheres cannot be ignited under similar conditions. T2 - FABIG Fire and Blast Information Group 111th UK Technical Meeting CY - London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland DA - 24.03.2026 KW - Explosion protection KW - Ignition sources KW - Mechanical sparks KW - Natural gas KW - Safety KW - Risk assessment PY - 2026 AN - OPUS4-65783 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Semenova, Aleksandra A1 - Spitzer Sra, Stefan H. A1 - Dvorakova, Barbora A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Funnemann, Patrick A1 - Hermanns, Roy T.E. A1 - Jankuj, Vojtech A1 - Vignes, Alexis A1 - Kuracina, Richard A1 - Szabova, Zuzana A1 - Norman, Frederik A1 - Gabel, Dieter A1 - Danzi, Enrico A1 - Makarova, Ekaterina A1 - Lorenzon, Ivan A1 - Toman, Adrian A1 - Adamus, Wojciech A1 - Hessels, Conrad T1 - Towards standardized safety protocols for iron-based energy carriers: International alignment through round robin testing on safety characteristics N2 - Background Iron powder appears to be a promising solution for long-term energy storage and (inter-) continental transport, as it is safe to store and does not require energy to maintain its state, unlike, for instance, liquefied hydrogen. However, while the fundamental research is well underway, large-scale implementation is still in its early stages, with a growing number of promising demonstrators emerging. Methods This article contributes to the large-scale implementation of iron as an energy carrier by presenting a round-robin test of four iron powders currently used in research and larger-scale demonstrators. These powders were tested on their safety characteristics in the standard 20 L apparatus across eight European countries. Results The resulting data are intended to support future standardization efforts using different iron samples as standardized fuel. All tested powders were classified either as non-explosible or as belonging to the category of marginally explosible dusts (Class 1). This provides a clear picture of the level of explosion protection measures that need to be considered for the safe use of iron powders in energy carrier applications. Conclusions Along with that, the study detected variations in the results and pointed to shortcomings in the current standards that may cause such discrepancies. These findings emphasize the importance of improving testing procedures to support standardization and ensure the safe use of iron powder as an energy carrier using an a-priori-approach rather than subsequent testing. KW - Explosion protection KW - Energy carrier KW - Safety characteristics PY - 2026 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-655761 DO - https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.22839.1 SN - 2732-5121 VL - 6 SP - 1 EP - 20 PB - F1000 Research Ltd AN - OPUS4-65576 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Askar, Enis T1 - BAM - Short Presentation N2 - The activities of the competence center H2Safety@BAM are presented. In more detail the testing facilities at Technical Test Site TTS are shown as well as recent testing activities in the field of hydrogen safety. T2 - 5th In-Person IEA Task 43 Meeting - Safety and RCS of Large Scale Hydrogen Energy Applications CY - Minneapolis, MN, USA DA - 26.09.2024 KW - Explosion protection KW - Consequence analysis KW - H2safety@BAM KW - Living Lab PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-61746 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Askar, Enis T1 - Safety of Electrolyzers N2 - After a short introduction on the BAM activities, the development of the electrolyzer technology is shown briefly. Then future challenges for the safety of hydrogen technologies are discussed and the general safety issues in the electrolysis system are presented. Finally, accidents in context with electrolyzers are discussed and the legal framework is summarized. T2 - Hydrogen Europe - Workshop on safety standards for electrolysers CY - Online meeting DA - 01.10.2024 KW - Explosion protection KW - Process & plant safety KW - Hydrogen production PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-61745 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Askar, Enis T1 - Ignition Behaviour and Challenges for Hydrogen Safety N2 - The presentation is divided in two parts. In the first part the significance of mechanical impacts as ignition source for hydrogen containing atmospheres is shown and recent results of a research project evaluating ignition probabilities under different conditions is presented. In the second part future challenges in the field of hydrogen safety are discussed. Finally, the German National Hydrogen Safety Alliance is introduced. T2 - Hydrogen Online Workshop 2024 CY - Online meeting DA - 05.06.2024 KW - Explosion protection KW - Mechanical impacts KW - Ignition source KW - German National Alliance for Hydrogen Safety PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-60288 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jordan, T. A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Holtappels, Kai A1 - Jopen, M. A1 - Stoll, U. A1 - Reinecke, E.-A. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Beyer, M. A1 - Markus, D. T1 - Fuels – Introduction | Hydrogen safety N2 - The introduction of hydrogen as a safe energy carrier needs a robust knowledge base, tools for the design and safety assessment of hydrogen technologies built on it, and an internationally harmonized set of standards and regulations. Many of the innovative technologies imply hydrogen at high pressures and/or cryogenic temperatures, with which private users come into contact for the first time in distributed applications. In order to avoid over-conservative, expensive safety solutions, while at the same time demonstrating the usability and safety of hydrogen applications and maintaining acceptance for the technology, safety research must also keep pace with, or better yet anticipate, trends in technological development. Thus, this overview article describes not only the current state of knowledge and technology regarding hydrogen safety, but also its further development. KW - Explosion protection KW - Accidental scenarios KW - Hazard and risk assessment KW - Regulations codes and standards (RCS) KW - Ignition KW - Hydrogen storage KW - Energy carrier PY - 2024 SN - 978-0-1240-9547-2 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96022-9.00195-X VL - 2nd Edition SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-59940 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Askar, Enis T1 - Experimental Study on the ignition of hydrogen containing atmospheres by mechanical impacts N2 - In this presentation the results of the Project HySpark are shown. Mechanical impacts are among the important possible ignition sources to be considered in explosion protection. Hydrogen is particularly prone to be ignited by mechanical impacts compared to natural gas. The effectivity of mechanical impacts as ignition source is dependent from different parameters. In this work the effectivity of impacts as an ignition source for hydrogen containing atmospheres was studied experimentally depending on the inhomogeneous material pairing of the impact. Moreover it was studied, how the effectivity of mechanical impacts as ignition source changes when hydrogen is added to natural gas. T2 - International Conference on Hydrogen Safety (ICHS) 2023 CY - Quebec City, Canada DA - 19.09.2023 KW - Explosion protection KW - Ignition sources KW - Natural gas KW - Safety KW - Mechanical sparks PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58514 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Grunewald, Thomas T1 - Experimental Study on the ignition of hydrogen containing atmospheres by mechanical impacts N2 - Mechanical friction, impact or abrasion is one of the ignition sources that must be avoided in hazardous zones with explosive atmospheres. The effectiveness of mechanical impacts as ignition source is dependent from several parameters including the minimum ignition energy of the explosive atmosphere, the properties of the material pairing, the kinetic impact energy or the impact velocity. By now there is no standard procedure to determine the effectiveness of mechanical impacts as ignition source. In this work the effectiveness of mechanical impacts with defined and reproducible kinetic impact energy as ignition source for hydrogen containing atmospheres was studied systematically in dependence from the inhomogeneous material pairing considering materials with practical relevance like stainless steel, low alloy steel, concrete, and non-iron-metals. It was found that ignition can be avoided, if non-iron metals are used in combination with different metallic materials, but in combination with concrete even the impact of non-iron-metals can be an effective ignition source if the kinetic impact energy is not further limited. Moreover, the consequence of hydrogen admixture to natural gas on the effectiveness of mechanical impacts as ignition source was studied. In many cases ignition of atmospheres containing natural gas by mechanical impacts is rather unlikely. No influence could be observed for admixtures up to 25% hydrogen and even more. The results are mainly relevant in the context of repurposing the natural gas grid or adding hydrogen to the natural gas grid. T2 - International Conference on Hydrogen Safety (ICHS) 2023 CY - Quebec City, Canada DA - 19.09.2023 KW - Explosion protection KW - Hydrogen transport in pipelines KW - ATEX KW - Hazardous areas KW - Mechanical sparks KW - Ignition source PY - 2023 SN - 979-12-210-4274-0 SP - 82 EP - 93 AN - OPUS4-58515 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Askar, Enis T1 - H2Safety@BAM - Overview of hydrogen research activities N2 - In this presentation the capabilities and different research activities at BAM in the field of hydrogen safety are outlined. A deep dive focussing the transport of hydrogen in pipelines adressing issues on material compatibility, gas quality and test methods is presented. Another deep dive is presented focussing on safety aspects of liquid hydrogen adressing issues of rapid phase transition (RPT) and Boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion (BLEVE). Finally a brief overview on other safety related research activities is given. T2 - Research priorities workshop of IA HySafe 2022 CY - Quebec, Canada DA - 21.11.2022 KW - Hydrogen safety KW - Hydrogen transport in pipelines KW - Liquid hydrogen (LH2) KW - Hydrogen quality KW - Explosion protection PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-57067 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Holtappels, Kai T1 - Fire and explosion safety for hydrogen technologies N2 - The presentation gives an overview about the research and testing activities of H2Safety@bam in the field of process and plant safety. T2 - HYDROGENIUS BAM Joint Hydrogen Symposium CY - Online meeting DA - 06.07.2021 KW - Explosion protection KW - LH2 KW - Jet-fires KW - Test area PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-53720 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Abdelkhalik, A. A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Markus, D. A1 - Brandes, E. A1 - El-Sayed, I. A1 - Hassan, M. A1 - Nour, M. A1 - Stolz, T. T1 - Explosion regions of propane, isopropanol, acetone, and methyl acetate/inert gas/air mixtures N2 - The explosion regions for propane, isopropanol, acetone, and methyl acetate with air in the presence of nitrogen, argon, helium, and carbon dioxide were determined experimentally according to EN 14756/EN1839, method T. Except for propane, all the measurements were executed at 323 K and 1 bar. Propane experiments were carried out at 293 K and 1 bar. The results show that for the same type of inert gas, propane, isopropanol, and acetone have great closeness concerning the concentration of the inert gas at the apex of the explosion envelope in a ternary diagram with air as oxidizer. This leads to consistency in the limiting oxygen concentration (LOC) and minimum required amount of inert gas (MAI) values. Concerning methyl acetate, the apex was always reached at higher percentages of inert gases compared with the other fuels. This can be attributed to the presence of two oxygen atoms inside the chemical structure. Calculation of the explosion regions was carried out based on calculated adiabatic flame temperature (CAFT) method. The flame temperatures for the experimentally determined fuel/air/N2 mixtures were calculated. Then, these temperatures were used to predict the explosion limits of similar mixtures with other inert gases than nitrogen. The modeling results show reasonable agreement with the experimental results. KW - Flammability limits KW - Model of constant adiabatic flame temperatures (CAFT) KW - Inertisation KW - Explosion protection PY - 2016 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2016.04.001 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 2016/43 SP - 669 EP - 675 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Oxford, UK AN - OPUS4-37996 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Schröder, Volkmar A1 - Seemann, A. A1 - Schuetz, S. T1 - Power-to-Gas: Safety Characteristics of Hydrogen/NaturalGas-Mixtures N2 - Safety characteristics for explosion protection of natural gas/hydrogen mixtures relevant in connection with the Power2Gas technology were studied in this work. Lower explosion limits (LEL) and upper explosion limits (UEL), limiting oxygen concentrations (LOC), maximum experimental safety gaps (MESG), maximum explosion pressures (pmax) and maximum rates of pressure rise (dp/dt)max were determined experimentally in dependence of the hydrogen fraction. Adding hydrogen did mainly effect the UEL, LOC, MESG and (dp/dt)max. The mixtures become more "critical" concerning the explosion hazards with increasing hydrogen fraction. However, the dependency of the safety characteristics from the hydrogen fraction is mainly not linear. Adding up to 10% hydrogen to natural gas had nearly no effect on the safety characteristics. More significant effects on the safety characteristics were observed at hydrogen fractions of more than 25%. For example the explosion group changes from IIA to IIB. Considering the huge explosion region and very high (dp/dt)max of hydrogen compared to natural gas, even adding 50% hydrogen to natural gas has a rather small effect on these characteristics. Furthermore pmax of hydrogen/natural-gas mixtures can be calculated with good accuracy assuming ideal adiabatic conditions. EL and LOC of natural gas/hydrogen mixtures in ternary systems with inert gas and air were calculated in dependence of the type of inert gas with the so called “model of constant adiabatic flame temperature profiles”. KW - Explosion protection KW - Hydrogen safety KW - Hydrogen enriched natural gas KW - Energy storage PY - 2016 SN - 78-88-95608-39-6 DO - https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1648067 SN - 2283-9216 VL - 2016/48 SP - 397 EP - 402 PB - AIDIC AN - OPUS4-36788 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schröder, Volkmar A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Acikalin, Hatice Aydan A1 - Steinbach, J. T1 - Chemically unstable gases - flammability of ethylene oxide mixtures in sterilization processes N2 - For the assessment of explosion hazards by industrial sterilization processes with ethylene oxide (EO), the flammability regions of 3-component systems EO/nitrogen/air, EO/carbon dioxide/air and EO/water vapor/air were determined. The tests were performed at temperatures of 20 °C and 100 °C and at pressures of 40 kPa and 100 kPa in accordance with the standard test method EN 1839-B. The observed flammability regions are similar in shape and typical for mixtures with ethylene oxide. According to the molecular heat capacities the regions get larger with nitrogen and smaller with carbon dioxide. They become larger with increasing pressure and increasing temperature. Using experimental data a semi-empirical model was created that allows the calculation of flammability limits of process gases in sterilization processes. Such process gases can consist of EO, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapor and air. The model is based on the assumption that the adiabatic flame temperatures along the boundary curves of a flammability region have a certain temperature profile that is nearly independent of the type of the inert gas. The adiabatic flame temperatures were calculated by using the “Gaseq” Code. Using a temperature profile calculated from only one experimental system EO/inert gas/air it is possible to predict the flammability limits of systems with other inert gases or of process gases containing several inert gases. T2 - AIChE 100 - Spring National Meeting CY - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA DA - 2008-04-06 KW - Explosion protection KW - Process safety KW - Sterilization KW - Flammability limits KW - Gas mixtures PY - 2008 SN - 978-0-8169-1023-6 N1 - Serientitel: P / AIChE, American Institute of Chemical Engineers – Series title: P / AIChE, American Institute of Chemical Engineers IS - 247 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - AIChE CY - New York AN - OPUS4-17483 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -