Engineering Research Center, Tongji University and Gexcon sign a strategic agreement

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On 21 November, a memorandum of strategic cooperation was signed between Tongji Universality, the Shanghai Hydrogen Energy Research Centre and Jessica Software (Shanghai) Ltd. (Gexcon) in the same town. Mr. Wei Xu Chul, Vice-President of the Associative Automotive Institute, Mr. Liu Shaojun, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Research Centre for Hydrogen Energy Use, and Mr. CEO Sturle H Pedersen, Gexcon, signed on behalf of the three parties, respectively.

The signing of the memorandum of understanding was aimed at strengthening tripartite cooperation in research, training lectures, advisory services, etc. on hydrogen energy safety technologies, conducting quantitative risk analysis studies for hydrogen energy vehicles and hydrogen-added stations based on the FLACS software, and jointly promoting the conversion and application of international standards relating to hydrogen-filling stations in China. Gexcon will provide an academic version of the hydrogen-gas module of the software to the Centre for Research on Hydrogen Energy Applications in Tongji and Shanghai to study the quantitative risk assessment and security optimization design of hydrogen-energy vehicles and their infrastructure. The technical support of Gexcon will enable Tongji University and the Shanghai Research Centre for Hydrogen Energy Use to maintain a technological lead in hydrogen safety research.

Gexcon, based in Norway, is a leading global company in the field of safety risk management and complex spill, explosion and fire simulations. The three-dimensional fire explosion simulation software, FLACS, is a industry sticker in the field of global explosion simulations. Since the 1980s, the development of the hydrogen gas module of the FLACS software has led to the testing of hundreds of different scenarios and scales, such as tunnels, high congestion platforms, open spaces, hydrogen-filling stations, geometric barriers, etc., and is a three-dimensional simulation tool for leading industrial hydrogen leakage, diffusion, explosion, etc.

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