Explosion protection for mixtures of hydrogen and natural gas

The effects of hydrogen admixture to natural gas on explosion regions, explosion group classification, explosion severity and on areas with explosive mixtures in case of gas release was studied experimentally. With increasing hydrogen fractions the mixtures become mainly more "critical", but up to 10 mole% hydrogen the influence on the safety characteristics are very low. By using appropriate calculation methods some of the safety characteristics could be calculated with good accuracy.