Hydrogen fuel-cell forklift vehicle releases in enclosed spaces
| Autor: | Erik Merilo, William G. Houf, Isaac Ekoto, Mark Groethe, Gregory H. Evans |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Hydrogen
Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Nuclear engineering Enclosure Energy Engineering and Power Technology chemistry.chemical_element Computational fluid dynamics Condensed Matter Physics Overpressure law.invention Warehouse Ignition system Fuel Technology chemistry law Storage tank Deflagration Environmental science business Computer Science::Databases |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 38:8179-8189 |
| ISSN: | 0360-3199 |
| Popis: | Sandia National Laboratories has worked with stakeholders and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to develop scientific data that can be used to create risk-informed hydrogen codes and standards for the safe operation of indoor hydrogen fuel-cell forklifts. An important issue is the possibility of an accident inside a warehouse or other enclosed space, where a release of hydrogen from the high-pressure gaseous storage tank could occur. For such scenarios, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations have been used to model the release and dispersion of gaseous hydrogen from the vehicle and to study the behavior of the ignitable hydrogen cloud inside the warehouse or enclosure. The overpressure arising as a result of ignition and subsequent deflagration of the hydrogen cloud within the warehouse has been studied for different ignition delay times and ignition locations. Both ventilated and unventilated warehouses have been considered in the analysis. Experiments have been performed in a scaled warehouse test facility and compared with simulations to validate the results of the computational analysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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