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Hydrogen safety in confined spaces
Unwanted hydrogen releases in confined spaces can be significantly more dangerous compared to open-air scenarios. The transmission towards a zero-emission system results in a growth of hydrogen-driven vehicles which increases hazards and risk of accidents. Implementing hydrogen technologies into applications that are available to the public needs investigations of the many possible accidental scenarios. The knowledge should be disseminated to specialists, first responders and end-users. The experimental campaigns presented in this study are part of a pre-normative research project to develop a recommendation for Regulation, Codes, and Standards (RCS) and an engineering tool for hydrogen safety engineers. Four experimental campaigns were conducted during this work to investigate the results from hydrogen releases in the worse case scenarios. The large and full-scale experimental setups were designed to investigate ignited and unignited hydrogen releases. The 15 m3 explosive chamber was used to investigate overpressures – from Pressure Peaking Phenomena in an enclosure similar to private garages. The 40 ft ISO container was used for the investigation of hydrogen dispersion and thermal effects from hydrogen jet fires in enclosures similar to carparks. The hydrogen releases were performed with mass flow rates from 1.4 g/s to 13 g/s from reservoir pressures from 27 bar to 700 bar through nozzle diameters 0.5 mm – 4.0 mm, depending on the experiments and experimental campaign. The first two campaigns investigated the Pressure Peaking Phenomena from unignited and ignited releases. The experimental results were in good agreement with the developed analytical models, where the perfect mix assumption was confirmed. The model allows estimating the minimum ventilation area for the given mass flow rate and conversely. For the unignited hydrogen releases, the mass flow rate had to be relatively high and the ventilation area relatively small to observe the Pressure Peaking Phenomena. For the ignited releases the much lower ...
Hydrogen safety in confined spaces
Unwanted hydrogen releases in confined spaces can be significantly more dangerous compared to open-air scenarios. The transmission towards a zero-emission system results in a growth of hydrogen-driven vehicles which increases hazards and risk of accidents. Implementing hydrogen technologies into applications that are available to the public needs investigations of the many possible accidental scenarios. The knowledge should be disseminated to specialists, first responders and end-users. The experimental campaigns presented in this study are part of a pre-normative research project to develop a recommendation for Regulation, Codes, and Standards (RCS) and an engineering tool for hydrogen safety engineers. Four experimental campaigns were conducted during this work to investigate the results from hydrogen releases in the worse case scenarios. The large and full-scale experimental setups were designed to investigate ignited and unignited hydrogen releases. The 15 m3 explosive chamber was used to investigate overpressures – from Pressure Peaking Phenomena in an enclosure similar to private garages. The 40 ft ISO container was used for the investigation of hydrogen dispersion and thermal effects from hydrogen jet fires in enclosures similar to carparks. The hydrogen releases were performed with mass flow rates from 1.4 g/s to 13 g/s from reservoir pressures from 27 bar to 700 bar through nozzle diameters 0.5 mm – 4.0 mm, depending on the experiments and experimental campaign. The first two campaigns investigated the Pressure Peaking Phenomena from unignited and ignited releases. The experimental results were in good agreement with the developed analytical models, where the perfect mix assumption was confirmed. The model allows estimating the minimum ventilation area for the given mass flow rate and conversely. For the unignited hydrogen releases, the mass flow rate had to be relatively high and the ventilation area relatively small to observe the Pressure Peaking Phenomena. For the ignited releases the much lower ...
Hydrogen safety in confined spaces
Lach, Agnieszka Weronika (author)
2022-09-02
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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