Burbank, CA – (Sept. 15, 2017) At the 2018 Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Energy Summit Pooya Mahmoudian, a Product Engineer with Haskel International, will be a featured event speaker. During his presentation of "Design approaches to prevent H2 induced crack growth in pressure vessels and the related changes in the ASME PVC Sec VIII, Div 3,” Mahmoudian will unveil a new technology developed to address specific industry challenges.
Haskel, a longstanding player in the hydrogen market, is highly invested in compression technology research, as well as research on the hydrogen refueling process, arguably the most challenging aspect of fuel cell technology. The company's engineers, including Mahmoudian, developed a new innovative technology in conjunction with the U.S. Army as part of a Collaborative Technology and Research Agreement.
Because it solves a major issue for many manufacturers, this project has the potential to dramatically impact costs for those developing and operating hydrogen refueling stations.
Under current regulations, hydrogen refueling station manufacturers must run tests to ensure and certify that equipment and the corresponding refueling process do not result in hydrogen embrittlement. Haskel engineers dedicated over six months of development to solving this challenge and were able to design a new pressure vessel to mitigate H2 embrittlement without costly exotic and hard to source metal alloys, which are preferred and often specified in this type of application.
At the 2018 Summit, Mahmoudian will share details of the vessel design as well as explain the changes that the ASME, the U.S. regulatory body for the pressure vessel market, has made to its testing and audit protocols as a result of the new technology. By eliminating the need for repeated testing and required alloys for the metallurgical prevention method of H2 embrittlement, Haskel's new vessel design could greatly reduce manufacturers' costs across the U.S. – with hope of seeing similar regulatory changes across Europe and Asia over the next year.
Haskel is excited to have a member of the its engineering team speaking at the 2018 summit, which takes place in Brussels, Belgium January 24-25, 2018. To learn more about the Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Energy Summit, visit http://www.wplgroup.com/aci/event/hydrogen-and-fuel-cells-energy-summit/.
