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Indexed by:期刊论文

Date of Publication:2019-04-23

Journal:INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY

Included Journals:SCIE、EI

Volume:44

Issue:21

Page Number:11247-11258

ISSN No.:0360-3199

Key Words:Hydrogen storage; Composite cylinders; Conjugate heat transfer; Large eddy simulation; Decomposition

Abstract:To improve the current design standards of the hydrogen composite cylinders, it is essential to understand the thermal response of the hydrogen composite cylinders subjected to fire impingement. In the present study, a fully coupled conjugate heat transfer model based on a multi-region and multi-physics approach is proposed for modelling the transient heat transfer behaviour of composite cylinders subjected to fire impingement. The fire scenario is modelled using the in-house version of FireFOAM, the large eddy simulation (LES) based fire solver within the frame of OpenFOAM. Three dimensional governing equations based on the finite volume method are written to model the heat transfer through the regions of composite laminate, liner and pressurized hydrogen, respectively. The governing equations are solved sequentially with temperature dependent material properties and coupled interface boundary conditions. The proposed conjugate heat transfer model is validated against a bonfire test of a commercial Type-4 cylinder and its transient heat transfer behaviour is also studied. (C) 2019 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.