Involvement of the Notifying Body in the innovative development environment: Lessons learnt from the development of green alternative cryogenic fuelling systems in multinational work groups

To reduce emissions alternative innovative fuel technologies like the usage of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) are focused on, which are not mature yet and there is a high level of uncertainty. The Notifying Body, which shall accept the design, is narrowing the envelope further by applying conservative approaches to protect the end users. There are several international parties involved in different stages of the development process. Motivated by these circumstances, an innovative development environment for high-tech industrial products has been proposed, incorporating the active participation of both the Notifying Body and the Customer, which validation is accomplished by a case study in the development of an alternative cryogenic LNG fueling system.