Hydrogen Newsletter Winter 1998: Hydrogen Corridors

Hydrogen Clusters and Corridors

By Jay Keller, Sandia National Laboratories

The second working meeting of the Hydrogen Clusters and Corridors (H2CC) was held 6 March 1998, following the National Hydrogen Association’s Annual Meeting. The meeting was well attended by standing members of H2CC and by several new faces making a total of 23 present. We welcome Bill Clapper from SunLine Services Group, Richard Cromwell III from SunLine Transit Agency, Peter Lehman from Schatz Energy Research Center, and Roxanne Dempsey from the DOE’s Office of Advanced Transportation Technologies Clean Cities Program.

Discussions during our business meeting yielded several significant outcomes. Briefly, the results are:

A standing executive committee was formed to assume the responsibility and ensure the smooth continued operation of H2CC. The current members of this committee are Bill Summers, Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Susan Naughton, Bechtel Nevada, Peter Lehman, Schatz Energy Research Corp, and Jay Keller, Sandia National Laboratories. The committee will operate as a unit without specific job descriptions or titles given to its members. Sandia National Laboratories, under the DOE’s hydrogen corridor program, will continue to sponsor the H2CC meetings.
A committee was formed to formalize procedures and qualifications for membership into H2CC. This committee is chartered with drafting guidelines for prospective H2CC members and appropriate qualifying criterion. James Brandmueller at the Nevada State Energy office is chairing the committee with membership from Dave Bruderly (Bruderly Engineering Associates), Randy Brown (Southern California Gas Company), Bill Clapper (SunLine Transit Agency), Roxanne Dempsey (DOE’s Office of Advanced Transportation Technologies Clean Cities Program), Jay Keller (Sandia National Laboratories), George Kervitsky (Sentech), Susan Naughton (Bechtel Nevada), Venki Raman (Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.), Paul Shillcock (City of Palm Desert), and Bill Summers (Westinghouse Savannah River Company).
In light of Addison Bain’s research on the Hindenburg, the H2CC felt that the hydrogen community is in a strong defensible position to correct the negative image of hydrogen’s role in this accident. As such, the H2CC chartered the NHA to provide leadership in correcting the textbooks on this event. The H2CC has agreed to provide support as needed.

As a growing H2CC tradition the meeting concluded with brief presentations from three of our charter hydrogen cluster sights. Proposed activities at Las Vegas were presented by Susan Naughton, the findings from the Florida group were presented by David Bruderly, and Peter Lehman discussed the activities at Palm Desert. Jay Keller presented a brief note outlining potential opportunities at Denali National Park. The next meeting will be in conjunction with the Fall Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel’s (HTAP) meeting. The time and location are currently undetermined.

For further information contact Jay Keller at +1.925.294.3316 or jokelle@sandia.gov.

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