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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 44, Issue 18, Pages 9466-9483Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.04.193
Keywords
Hydrogen safety; Hydrogen refuelling stations; Hydrogen mixtures with air; Repeated pipe congestion; Overpressure; Explosions
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- Shell Alternative Energies, Hydrogen, BP Gas Marketing Limited
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Experimental studies were conducted with the objective of gaining a better understanding of the potential explosion hazard consequences that could be associated with a high-pressure leak from a hydrogen vehicle refuelling system. The first part of the study, described in this paper, was a series of experiments designed to establish hydrogen-air explosion overpressures in a well-defined and well understood 3 m x 3 m x 2 m (high) repeated pipe congestion. The results of the experiments are discussed in terms of the conditions leading to the greatest overpressures. It is concluded from the study that stoichiometric ratio in the range of 1.2-1.3 gives highest overpressure. Moreover, it was observed that increasing the congestion from 4-gate to 9-gate congestion leads to significant increase in the overpressure. In addition, it was concluded that, explosion in a hydrogen-air mixture is significantly more severe than the explosion in an ethane-air, methane-air or propane-air mixtures. This is attributed to higher laminar flame speed of hydrogen-air mixtures. Crown Copyright (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. All rights reserved.
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