TY - GEN
T1 - Design of safe hydrogen refueling stations against gas-leakage, explosion and accidental automobile collision
AU - Suwa, Yoshihide
AU - Miyahara, Hideo
AU - Kubo, Keiji
AU - Yonezawa, Kenji
AU - Ono, Yoshiyuki
AU - Mikoda, Kenji
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - An establishment of safe application ware is now the most important problem to generalize the use of hydrogen energy. This paper describes the result of research project performed as one of the NEDO projects during 2003 to 2004. Accident potentials of hydrogen refueling stations were analyzed based on the case research, and we found that the explosive accident brings significant disasters such as fatal accidents. In the next stage, measures against the explosion accidents were studied, and the way to design more effective protective walls was investigated. As for the damage of walls or the building structures by the blast, explosion tests were performed and the response and damage of reinforced concrete construction was observed. Finally, protection against the collisions by recklessly driven or miss-operated vehicles was studied. These results are applicable to realize safe design of hydrogen refueling stations.
AB - An establishment of safe application ware is now the most important problem to generalize the use of hydrogen energy. This paper describes the result of research project performed as one of the NEDO projects during 2003 to 2004. Accident potentials of hydrogen refueling stations were analyzed based on the case research, and we found that the explosive accident brings significant disasters such as fatal accidents. In the next stage, measures against the explosion accidents were studied, and the way to design more effective protective walls was investigated. As for the damage of walls or the building structures by the blast, explosion tests were performed and the response and damage of reinforced concrete construction was observed. Finally, protection against the collisions by recklessly driven or miss-operated vehicles was studied. These results are applicable to realize safe design of hydrogen refueling stations.
KW - Accident potential
KW - Accidental automobile collision
KW - Explosion
KW - Hydrogen gas
KW - Safety
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875606167
SN - 9781622765409
T3 - 16th World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2006, WHEC 2006
SP - 458
EP - 466
BT - 16th World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2006, WHEC 2006
T2 - 16th World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2006, WHEC 2006
Y2 - 13 June 2006 through 16 June 2006
ER -