DOE gives awards for hydrogen codes and standards.
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Serving as Chief Engineer responsible for product reliability and safety at UTC Power and as Manager of ONSI Engineering for United Technologies, Glenn Scheffler has helped develop codes and standards for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Dr. Chris Sloane, advocate for incorporation of science and performance-based requirements in regulations, codes, and standards, has served as technical resource for DOE in on-going development of Global Technical Regulations for hydrogen vehicle systems.
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DOE Gives C&S Awards
The U.S. Department of Energy recently gave out awards to two individuals who have proven invaluable in the field of hydrogen safety, codes and standards.
Glenn Scheffler
For more years than he probably would like to recall, Glenn Scheffler has been an indispensable technical resource and champion in the hydrogen and fuel cell safety, codes and standards community. With invaluable technical expertise in fuel cell technology engineering and development, including serving as Chief Engineer responsible for product reliability and safety at UTC Power and as Manager of ONSI Engineering for United Technologies, Glenn has applied this expertise and devotion to product safety in service of numerous technical committees and working groups developing codes and standards for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. For example, Glenn serves as Chair of the Safety Working Group and Vice-Chair of the Fuel Cell Vehicle Committee for the SAE. Under his guidance, SAE developed and recently published J2579, performance-based requirements for verification of design prototype and production of hydrogen storage and handling systems for hydrogen vehicles, which, among other things, is dramatically changing and improving storage tank testing protocols in other countries and is now being incorporated under Global Technical Regulations for hydrogen vehicle systems. Glenn also chairs the U.S. Technical Advisory Groups for both ISO TC197 (Hydrogen Technologies) and IEC TC22/SC21 (Electrically Propelled Road Vehicles) and serves as a technical resource for numerous other important standards and codes development and coordination activities. The outstanding progress that the hydrogen and fuel cell codes and standards community has made over the past decade owes much to service and dedication of experts and champions like Glenn Scheffler.
Chris Sloane
Dr. Chris Sloane is a force of her own in the hydrogen and fuel cell technical community and a highly effective advocate for the incorporation of science and performance-based requirements in regulations, codes and standards. Chris has championed this approach in all critical domestic and international forums, and the codes and standards community owes much to her tireless effort that is based on impeccable technical credentials and experience. Chris has served as Director of Environmental Policy and Programs for General Motors Corporation, responsible for global climate issues and for mobile emission issues involving advanced technology vehicles, including hybrid-electric, fuel cell, and advanced compression-ignition vehicles. Chris also served as Chief Technologist for the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) where she was responsible for guiding and implementing the development of energy conversion and materials technologies for use in the Precept, GM's 80 mile-per-gallon 5-passenger concept car. More recently, Chris has served as an invaluable technical resource for the Department of Energy in the on-going development of Global Technical Regulations (GTR) for hydrogen vehicle systems. Chris personifies the all too rare combination of technical expertise and a common sense approach to problem solving that characterizes her devotion and service to the safety of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
