Resilience assessment of pilot Hydrogen facility for production, storage and distribution to support safer green energy transition in Ireland

  • Estrada-Lugo, Hector (PI)

Project Details

Description

This project focuses on assessing the safety conditions in the design of a hydrogen production, storage, and distribution pilot project in collaboration with ESB. It follows a resilience-by-design approach, starting with hazard identification and established countermeasures to follow in case of accidents, according to international standards.

A resilience assessment of the hydrogen facilities is being conducted to study recovery procedures in case of mishaps. A dynamic model based on Bayesian and credal networks is being built to map and assess scenarios that reflect the system’s performance over time in response to disruptive events.

The analysis includes:

- Assessment of critical components in the pilot system

- Analysis of interactions between subsystem failures related to hydrogen production, storage, and refueling

- Examination of cascading effects on overall system performance

- Consideration of human and organizational factors

The hazard study outputs will be graphical risk maps to facilitate communication with stakeholders. The resulting model will create different resilience profiles, assisting decision-makers in formulating effective resource management plans. Scenarios identified can be further used for training and emergency planning simulations.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/09/2330/08/25

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