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http://dx.doi.org/10.7316/KHNES.2019.30.6.499

A Study on Safety Assessment of Hydrogen Station  

PYO, DON-YOUNG (Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency)
KIM, YANG-HWA (Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
LIM, OCK-TAECK (School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society / v.30, no.6, 2019 , pp. 499-504 More about this Journal
Abstract
Due to the rapid spread and low minimum ignition energy of hydrogen, rupture is highly likely to cause fire, explosion and major accidents. The self-ignition of high-pressure hydrogen is highly likely to ignite immediately when it leaks from an open space, resulting in jet fire. Results of the diffusion and leakage simulation show that jet effect occurs from the leakage source to a certain distance. And at the end of location, the vapor cloud explosion can be occurred due to the formation of hydrogen vapor clouds by built-up. In the result, it is important that depending on the time of ignition, a jet fire or a vapor cloud explosion may occur. Therefore, it is necessary to take into account jet effect by location of leakage source and establish a damage minimizing plan for the possible jet fire or vapor cloud explosion. And it is required to any kind of measurements such as an interlock system to prevent hydrogen leakage or minimize the amount of leakage when detecting leakage of gas.
Keywords
Hydrogen station; FLACS (flame acceleration simulator); Computational fluid dynamics;
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