The ignition of a hydrogen-air mixture that has engulfed a typical set of ambient vaporizers (i.e., an array of finned tubes) may result in a deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT). Simplified curve-based vapor cloud explosion (VCE) blast load prediction methods, such as the Baker-Strehlow-Tang (BST) method, would predict a DDT given that typical ambient vaporizerswould be rated as medium or high congestion and hydrogen is a high reactivity fuel (i.e., high laminar burning velocity).
Natural gas was first used as a vehicle fuel as far back as the 1930s. The first natural gas vehicles, which ran on uncompressed natural gas, were called “gas bag” vehicles and were used to combat gasoline shortages during World War I [1]. During and after World War II, compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles using fuel tanks mounted on the roof gained popularity in France and Italy [2]. Today, there are more than 24 million CNG vehicles in service worldwide, including CNG buses that continue the early tradition of mounting fuel tanks on the roof.
The HSP has reviewed many safety plans for gaseous hydrogen. An emerging trend is the use of liquid (cryogenic) hydrogen in the commercial market, potentially near residential areas, for fueling hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Finding a “qualified” person to determine liquid hydrogen code compliance is difficult, and the skills necessary of such an individual are not well defined in the codes and standards.
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Quenching limits of hydrogen diffusion flames on small burners were observed. Four burner types,with diameters as small as 8 m, were considered: pinhole burners, curved-wall pinhole burners, tubeburners, and leaky fittings. In terms of mass flow rate, hydrogen had a lower quenching limit and a higherblowoff limit than either methane or propane. Hydrogen flames at their quenching limits were the weakest
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