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Numerical Study on the Strength Safety of High Pressure Gas Cylinder  

Kim, Chung-Kyun (Research Center for Tribology, Mechatronics and Energy Technology Hongik University)
Kim, Seung-Chul (Research Center for Tribology, Mechatronics and Energy Technology Hongik University)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas / v.14, no.2, 2010 , pp. 1-6 More about this Journal
Abstract
The strength safety of high pressure gas cylinder has been analyzed by using a finite element method. In this study, the internal gas pressures of a steel bombe include a service charging pressure of $9kg/cm^2$, high limit charging pressure of $18.6kg/cm^2$, high limit of safety valve operation pressure $24.5kg/cm^2$, and hydraulic testing pressure of $34.5kg/cm^2$. The computed FEM results indicate that the strength safety for a service charging pressure of $9kg/cm^2$ and high limit charging pressure of $18.6kg/cm^2$ is safe because the stress of a gas cylinder is within yield strength of steel. But the stress for a hydraulic testing pressure of $34.5kg/cm^2$ sufficiently exceeds the yield strength and remains under the tensile strength. If the hydraulic testing pressures frequently apply to the gas cylinder, the bombe may be fractured because a fatigue residual stress is accumulated on the lower round end plate due to a plastic deformation. The computed results show that the concentrated force in which is applied on a skirt zone does not affect to the lower round end plate, and the most weak zone of a bombe is a middle part of a lower round end plate between a bombe body and a skirt for a gas pressure. Thus, the FEM results show that the profile of a lower round end plate is an important design parameter of a high pressure gas cylinder.
Keywords
liquefied petroleum gas; pressure cylinder; bombe; skirt; lower round end plate; FEM;
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