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Understanding fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen is an important step on the road to commercialization. CaFCP offers this information as introductory education for fire and life safety professionals. Materials found on this website include basic hydrogen properties and handling, fuel cell vehicle and bus safety systems and items you need to be aware of during fuel cell vehicle and hydrogen emergency response.
CaFCP members worked closely with local fire departments, the Office of the California State Fire Marshal, national fire and life safety training experts, and the expertise of our members to develop the material on this web site.
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Santa Monica Hydrogen and Fuel Cell
Vehicle Workshop
CaFCP staff, along with representatives from Honda, Toyota, and Air Products & Chemical, Inc. conducted a Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicle Workshop.The Santa Monica City Yard houses a Fire Training Tower Classroom and an Air Products hydrogen fueling station.
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HYDROGEN FACT |
Q: What happens if the relief valve fails?
A: For hydrogen handling, safe FCV design maintains two objectives:
1. Locking the high pressure hydrogen in the safest place, inside onboard vehicle storage tanks, during all non-fire vehicle safety incidents (or when the vehicle is off) – by employing in-tank solenoids that default to a closed position
2. Evacuating all the high pressure hydrogen quickly under conditions where it is unsafe to store, such as during fires - by employing a tank-integrated temperature activated pressure relief device (PRD/TRD)
Modern PRD/TRDs, integrated into all hydrogen tanks mounted on light-duty FCVs and FC buses, are the result of decades of learning from the CNG vehicle tank industry and consensus-based standards development organizations such as the Compressed Gas Association (CGA) and CSA America. The PRD/TRD consists primarily of a fusible metal plug made of material engineered to melt at a certain temperature (108 °C for 350 bar tanks). Design characteristics, such as the use of a low melting temperature metal, produce PRD/TRDs that open under high temperature conditions, such as a fire engulfing the tank, during which the fusible plug melts causing the PRD/TRD to open and rapidly release the contents of the tank. |
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| INFORMATION AVAILABLE |
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Introductory information is available to all website visitors. If you have attended a CaFCP ER Workshop, please log in to the Members Only Section below for additional detailed information.
To schedule a workshop, speak with your captain or training officer. CaFCP conducts workshops in California communities that have fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen stations. |
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| CONTACT INFORMATION |
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California Fuel Cell Partnership
3300 Industrial Blvd.
Suite 1000
West Sacramento, CA 95691
(916) 371-2870
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