Explosion Characteristics of Hydrogen for CFD Modelling and Simulation of Turbulent Gas Flow

Renewable energies became more and more important in the last years. Hydrogen as a promising energy carrier is a perfect candidate to supply the energy demand of the world. The state of the hydrogen gas (turbulences and point concentrations) has a significant impact on the gas explosion indices. A gas cloud is formed by a partial-pressure method in gas explosion experiments in the spherical 20.0∙10 -3 m 3 chamber. Gas in the chamber reaches an uniform state beyond in hundreds of ms. The absolute pressure for gas dispersion should be higher than 0.01 MPa for the H 2 of concentration larger than 30 vol. % of fuel. The initial temperature also influences turbulent gas flow before ignition, especially in the case of the gases lighter-than-air.