H2SENSE's quality policy focuses on providing cost-effective and reliable hydrogen sensors to promote the safe use of hydrogen. Here are several key points of its quality policy:
1. Reliability and Safety: The goal of the H2SENSE project is to support and unite stakeholders including sensor manufacturers, end-users, certification bodies, and independent sensor assessors to ensure the optimal use of low-cost and high reliability hydrogen sensors.
2. Performance requirements: Hydrogen sensors must meet specific performance requirements in order to be safely used. These requirements include response time, selectivity, robustness, and lifespan, as well as maintenance and capital costs.
Technological innovation: H2SENSE has driven the development of hydrogen sensor technology, verifying sensor performance through experiments, identifying gaps between sensor performance and user expectations, and proposing research and development activities to address these gaps.
3. International Cooperation: The H2SENSE project collaborates with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the US Department of Energy to share knowledge on the development, deployment strategies, and commercialization of hydrogen sensor technology.
4. Market and Standards: The project evaluated the hydrogen sensor market, identified potential obstacles to commercialization and widespread deployment of hydrogen sensors, and proposed methods to overcome these obstacles. In addition, a survey on hydrogen sensor related standards has been prepared, and recommendations for implementing new RCS activities at the national and global levels have been put forward.
5. Environmental and social benefits: The H2SENSE project reduces the release of hydrogen into the atmosphere by supporting the safe use of hydrogen and the transition to a hydrogen economy, promoting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and enhancing the hydrogen sensor market, thereby creating employment opportunities.
6. Performance improvement: The H2SENSE project identified the performance gap between current sensors and user needs and expectations, and proposed focused areas of research and development activities to address specific performance issues directly related to sensor users.
These policy points reflect H2SENSE's commitment to providing high-quality and reliable hydrogen sensors, as well as its positive role in promoting safe use of hydrogen and technological innovation.
