Hydrogen Safety Fundamentals and Assessment Methods
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2027
- Latest edition
- Editors: Faisal Khan, Rouzbeh Abbassi, Md Tanjin Amin
- Language: English
Hydrogen Safety Fundamentals & Assessment Methods is an essential guide to understanding and managing the safety challenges associated with hydrogen as a clean energy source… Read more
Description
Description
This book combines the latest scientific research with practical safety practices, making complex topics accessible to researchers, engineers, policymakers, and industry professionals. It covers hydrogen's physical and chemical properties, leak detection and management, dispersion modeling, fire and explosion hazards, and material impacts. Its structured progression moves from fundamental concepts through specific hazard phenomena to system-level safety considerations across the value chain, with an in-depth chapter on advanced risk assessment methods serving as both a foundational reference and a guide to state-of-the-art practices.
The book covers safety considerations during hydrogen production, transportation, and usage, featuring risk assessment methods such as fault tree analysis, Bayesian networks, and AI-based approaches, alongside cyber-physical security aspects relevant to hydrogen infrastructure. Real-world case studies and current experimental data support safe hydrogen deployment across research, engineering, policy development, and industrial applications, helping bridge critical knowledge gaps in the field.
Key features
Key features
- Addresses hydrogen-specific risk assessment methodologies, including advanced techniques such as bowtie analysis and Bayesian networks, to support safety evaluation, design, and maintenance of hydrogen infrastructure
- Presents dispersion, fire, and explosion modeling tools accompanied by practical case studies to demonstrate their application in real-world scenarios
- Provides comprehensive insights into material degradation processes and their implications for infrastructure integrity, facilitating informed material selection and safety enhancements
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1.1. Atomic and molecular structure of hydrogen
1.2. Physical properties (e.g., density, flammability limits)
1.3. Thermodynamic behavior
1.4. Chemical reactivity and ignition potential
1.5. Minimum ignition energy and autoignition temperature
1.6. Flammability and explosivity limits in air
1.7. Behavior under high pressure and cryogenic conditions
1.8. Regulatory and practical boundary limits (e.g., pressure, temperature, concentration)
2. Hydrogen leak identification, assessment, and management
2.1. Causes of hydrogen leaks
2.2. Leak frequency data & assessment methods
2.3. Leak detection methods & technologies
2.4. Leak rate estimation and consequences
2.5. Leak isolation and emergency response
2.6. Case studies of hydrogen leak incidents
2.7. Preventive strategies
3. Hydrogen dispersion modeling methods
3.1. Introduction to gas dispersion
3.2. Hydrogen plume behavior
3.3. Dispersion in confined vs open environments
3.4. Gaussian and integral models for quick assessment
3.5. CFD modeling tools
3.6. Model validation and benchmark experiments
3.7. Real-time dispersion monitoring systems
4. Hydrogen fire assessment and management
4.1. Fire triangle
4.2. Jet fires, pool fires, and flash fires
4.3. Radiation effects and heat flux estimates
4.4. Modeling hydrogen fire
4.5. Fire detection and suppression techniques
4.6. Case studies
4.7. Fire scenario planning in plant safety design
5. Hydrogen explosion types and their assessment and management
5.1. Introduction to deflagration, detonation, VCE, BLEVE
5.2. Conditions for transition from fire to explosion
5.3. Modeling tools (shockwave models, TNT-equivalent, CFD)
5.4. Confined vs open explosion hazards
5.5. Structural impact and vulnerability mapping
5.6. Explosion venting and suppression systems
5.7. Case studies
6. Hydrogen’s impact on metals and materials
6.1. Hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms
6.2. Material degradation
6.3. Compatibility of structural metals
6.4. Hydrogen permeation and diffusion rates
6.5. Safe material selection and testing standards
6.6. Case examples of hydrogen-related failure
7. Hydrogen production safety
7.1. Overview of production methods (e.g., SMR, DRM, electrolysis)
7.2. Hazards in each method
7.3. Equipment-specific risks (reactors, separators, compressors)
7.4. Fire/explosion risk at production sites
7.5. Safety instrumentation and interlocks
7.6. Safe layout and zoning
8. Hydrogen transportation safety
8.1. Introduction to transportation modes
8.2. Safety of major hydrogen carriers
8.3. Pressure and temperature management during transport
8.4. Leak and rupture detection systems
8.5. Embrittlement and fatigue in transport pipelines
8.6. Loading/unloading safety practices
8.7. Passive and active protective systems
9. Safety of hydrogen as a fuel
9.1. Applications in vehicles, power plants, and industry
9.2. Hydrogen storage in vehicles
9.3. Fuel cell hazards and mitigation
9.4. Refueling station risk assessment
9.5. Community risk perception and education
10. Hydrogen risk assessment methods
10.1. Introduction to risk assessment frameworks (QRA, LOPA, HAZOP)
10.2. Fault tree and event tree methods
10.3. Bowtie analysis for hydrogen systems
10.4. Frequency-consequence modeling
10.5. ALARP and risk tolerability criteria
10.6. Use of Bayesian networks
10.7. CFD & integral models
10.8. AI-based assessments
10.9. Land use planning
10.10. Setback distance calculation
10.11. Risk assessment case studies
11. Cyber-physical security of hydrogen systems
11.1. Difference between safety and security threats
11.2. Impact of security events on hydrogen safety
11.3. Historical trends from general process industries
11.4. QRA formulation for security risk assessment
11.5. Vulnerability assessment frameworks
11.6. Risk assessment frameworks
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 1, 2027
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
Faisal Khan
Faisal Khan is a Chemical Engineering Professor and Director of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center and the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI), Texas A&M University. He is the founder of the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety Engineering (C-RISE), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering. His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. Dr. Khan is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries in addressing safety and asset integrity issues. He also served as the Safety and Risk Advisor to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He continues to serve as a subject matter expert to many organizations, including Lloyd's Register EMEA, SBM Modco, Intecsea, Technip, and Qatar Gas. He served as a Visiting Professor of Offshore and Marine Engineering at the Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania, Australia, where he led the development of the offshore safety and risk engineering group and initiated global engagements with numerous international institutions.
Dr. Khan is the recipient of the President's Outstanding Research Award of 2012–13 at Memorial University, the President's Outstanding Research Supervision Award of 2013–14 at Memorial University, the CSChE National Award on Process Safety Management of 2014, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers award for his contribution to Health, Safety, and Risk Engineering. He has authored over 500 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on safety, risk, and reliability engineering. He has authored five books on the subject area. He is the Editor of the Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Safety in Extreme Environment, and ASME Part A (Risk and Uncertainty Analysis). He regularly offers training programs/workshops on safety and risk engineering in various locations, including St. John's, Chennai, Dubai, Beijing, Aberdeen, Cape Town, Doha, and Kuala Lumpur.
Rouzbeh Abbassi
Rouzbeh Abbassi is a Professor of Risk and Safety Engineering in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on safety and risk engineering for complex energy and process systems, with particular emphasis on dynamic risk assessment, asset integrity, and emerging energy technologies. He has led and contributed to major national and international research initiatives, authored and edited several books, holds editorial roles with leading journals, and has collaborated with various industry partners on the safety, reliability, and resilience of engineering systems