Consequence assessment of the BBC H2 refuelling station using the ADREA-HF code

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2573-2581

  Papanikolaou, E ^a,c   Venetsanos, A G ^a   Schiavetti, M ^b   Marangon, A ^b   Carcassi, M ^b   Markatos, N ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CFD; Consequence assessment; Hydrogen; Quantitative Risk Assessment; Refuelling station; Simulations

Indexed keywords

CFD; CONSEQUENCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; REFUELLING STATION; SIMULATIONS;

HYDROGEN; RATING; RISK PERCEPTION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79551617744     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.04.088     Document Type: Article

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