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Experimental Study of the Mitigation of Hydrogen-Air Explosions by Inhibiting Powder

Abstract

The development of hydrogen production technologies and new uses represents an opportunity to accelerate the ecological transition and create a new industrial sector. However, the risks associated with the use of hydrogen must be considered. Mitigation of a hydrogen explosion in an enclosure is partly based on prevention strategies such as detection and ventilation and protection strategies such as explosion venting. Even if applications involving hydrogen probably are most interesting for vented explosions in weak structures, the extreme reactivity of hydrogen-air mixtures often excludes the use of regular venting devices, such as in highly constrained urban environments. Thus, having alternative mitigation solutions can make the effects of the explosion acceptable by reducing the flame speed and the overpressure loading or suppressing the secondary explosion. The objective of this paper is to present experimental studies of the mitigation of hydrogen-air deflagration in a 4 m3 vented enclosure by injection of inhibiting powder (NaHCO₃). After describing the experimental set-up, the main experimental results are presented for several trial configurations showing the influence of inhibiting powder in the flammable cloud on flame propagation. An interpretation of the mitigating effect of inhibiting powder on the explosion effects is proposed based on the work of Proust et al.

Related subjects: Safety
Countries: France
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2024-11-21
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