Representation by Inoventech Ltd (Inoventech Ltd)
- Date submitted
- 9 January 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
My Specialist area is Safety engineering in relation to hydrogen as a transport fuel. This is due to a) become a big issue for goods vehicles using the Dartford crossings and b) become an essential way of decarbonising the construction process as JCB has started to convert its fleet of construction vehicles to hydrogen. The work my company does is facilitating the use of hydrogen in these areas by improving the safety aspects. I am strongly involved in reducing explosion risk of this light gas and I am acutely aware that it will not be possible for the existing two Dartford tunnels to take hydrogen vehicles due to inherent construction but that the LTC does not suffer these problems due to its design. It will be essential to divert hydrogen powered vehicles to the new tunnel and ban them in the existing tunnels until the approach roads at Dartford are completely remodeled, to keep hydrogen vehicles exclusively on the QE2 bridge, My company is working with others to facilitate JCB's green conversion which will be essential to the provision of hydrogen bowsers for fueling construction plant for the 23km of approach roads - reduce the carbon footprint of the project