Releases from hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in tunnels

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 715-719

  Houf, William G ^a   Evans, Greg H ^a   Merilo, Erik ^b   Groethe, Mark ^b   James, Scott C ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Deflagration; Dispersion; Experiments; Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle; Modeling; Tunnel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DEFLAGRATION; FUEL CELL VEHICLES; HYDROGEN CLOUDS; HYDROGEN FUEL CELL VEHICLES; HYDROGEN FUEL-CELL VEHICLE; HYDROGEN TANK; IGNITION DELAY TIME; IGNITION LOCATION; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING APPROACH; MODELING STUDIES; OVERPRESSURE; ROAD SURFACES; SCALE FACTOR; THERMAL PRESSURE; TUNNEL TEST;

ACCIDENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); EXPERIMENTS; FUEL CELLS; FUELS; HYDROGEN FUELS; MODELS; TUNNELS; VEHICLES;

HYDROGEN;

EID: 84655170200     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.09.110     Document Type: Article

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