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http://dx.doi.org/10.7842/kigas.2012.16.1.15

Hazard Distance from Hydrogen Accidents  

Jo, Young-Do (Dept. of Gas Safety R&D Center, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas / v.16, no.1, 2012 , pp. 15-21 More about this Journal
Abstract
An analysis was completed of the hazards distance of hydrogen accidents such as jet release, jet fire, and vapor cloud explosion(VCE) of hydrogen gas, and simplified equations have been proposed to predict the hazard distances to set up safety distance by the gas dispersion, fire, and explosion following hydrogen gas release. For a small release rate of hydrogen gas, such as from a pine-hole, the hazard distance from jet dispersion is longer than that from jet fire. The hazard distance is directly proportional to the pressure raised to a half power and to the diameter of hole and up to several tens meters. For a large release rate, such as from full bore rupture of a pipeline or a large hole of storage vessel, the hazard distance from a large jet fire is longer than that from unconfined vapor cloud explosion. The hazard distance from the fire may be up to several hundred meters. Hydrogen filling station in urban area is difficult to compliance with the safety distance criterion, if the accident scenario of large hydrogen gas release is basis for setting up the safety distance, which is minimum separation distance between the station and building. Therefore, the accident of large hydrogen gas release must be prevented by using safety devices and the safety distance may be set based on the small release rate of hydrogen gas. But if there are any possibility of large release, populated building, such as school, hospital etc, should be separated several hundred meters.
Keywords
hazard distance; hydrogen jet fire; hydrogen jet dispersion; hydrogen explosion; hydrogen filling station; safe distance;
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