CFD simulations on small hydrogen releases inside a ventilated facility and assessment of ventilation efficiency

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2597-2605

  Papanikolaou, E ^a,c,d   Venetsanos, A G ^a   Cerchiara, G M ^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)

^d Institute for Energy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ATEX; CFD; Enclosure; Experiments; Fuel cell; Hydrogen; Ventilation assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION EFFECTS; ADREA-HF; ATEX; CFD; CFD SIMULATIONS; EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE; FUEL CELL SYSTEM; HYDROGEN RELEASE; NATURAL VENTILATION; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SENSOR LOCATION; TECHNICAL GUIDELINES; VENTILATION EFFICIENCY; VENTILATION SYSTEMS;

ENCLOSURES; EXPERIMENTS; FUEL SYSTEMS; HYDROGEN; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE REGULATORS; RATING; VENTILATION;

FUEL CELLS;

EID: 79551618172     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.04.119     Document Type: Article

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