RHA - Hydrogen Transportation and Distributed Energy Systems Risk Assessment for Airport Facilities - A collaboration between PNNL, Sandia and Portland International Airport

Join RHA to hear Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia)  present a unique risk assessment and case study for hydrogen transportation and emergency power at Portland International Airport (PDX).

 This work investigates the possibility of operating a fleet of 28 fuel cell electric buses, and the role FCEB could play after a seismic event or large-scale power outage. It also assesses the risks associated with deploying a hydrogen fueling infrastructure to support bus operations.

 This research is key for the deployment of hydrogen systems at airports. Utilizing the unique benefits of hydrogen infrastructure for multiple roles will demonstrate the versatility of hydrogen as an energy-carrier to a wider market.

AGENDA

 Contributors & Speakers

 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Dr. Arun Veeramany specializes in the risk, reliability, and resilience of engineering systems across multiple domains. He has been a senior risk and data scientist at PNNL for the past 10 years and has a PhD in reliability of nuclear power plant systems from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is the PNNL PM and PI for risk-informing the use of FCEB at airport facilities.  
• Brooke Marten is a Systems Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with expertise in evaluating complex systems and navigating competing priorities. With a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder, she specializes in using tools like life cycle assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis to balance tradeoffs. Brooke has a proven track record of turning data-driven insights into actionable solutions for managing waste, energy, and infrastructure challenges efficiently. 

 Sandia National Laboratories

• Melissa Louie is a Chemical Engineer for the Risk and Reliability Analyses group at Sandia, where she works on quantitative risk assessment for hydrogen and alternative fuel applications using HyRAM+ and reviews hydrogen safety codes and standards for DOE HFTO, DOE VTO, DOE FECM, and DOT FRA for alternative fuel vehicles, rail locomotives, storage infrastructure, tunnels, and underground hydrogen.
• Marina Miletic is a chemical engineer in the Risk and Reliability Analyses group at Sandia National Laboratories.  She leads projects in hydrogen qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, safety modeling, and reviews of codes and standards with a variety of industrial and federal sponsors.  Her projects span the areas of safety assessments of hydrogen composite tanks, rail maintenance, underground storage, computational fluid dynamics modeling of releases, fuel cell electric buses, and other topics.  She holds bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering from Purdue and a master’s and PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.
• Bryan Wofford is an Electrical Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. He has a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Central Arkansas and a master’s electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Bryan worked to support life extension projects for the nation’s nuclear stockpile from 2015 to 2022.  Since then, he has worked to support technical analyses for safety codes and standards for hydrogen fuel, advanced first responder CONOPS through lithium-ion battery fire testing and leveraged machine learning to classify signals for hazardous material protection.
• Brian Ehrhart is a Chemical Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. He has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a master’s and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 2017, Brian has worked to support technical analyses for safety codes and standards for alternative fuels, particularly hydrogen. His current and past work has focused on assessing risk for hydrogen vehicles, rail, and infrastructure; developing software codes for assessing various fire and thermal scenarios, including the HyRAM+ software; and serves on the Technical Committee for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 2 Hydrogen Technologies Code.

Port of Portland

• Andrea Caudill
• Danelle Peterson

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