Hydrogen cars
, two vehicles were parked approximately 0.85 m apart and the spread of fire from the HFCV to the gasoline vehicle was investigated. The experiment revealed that when the TPRD of the HFCV is activated by a gasoline fire a fireball of more than 10 m diameter is formed. The fire spread from a gasoline vehicle to a HFCV was investigated to address scenarios when different types of vehicles are catching fire in a car collision or natural disaster like an earthquake. A small storage vessel of 36 litres volume at pressure 70 MPa was used. Molkov, in Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicle Technologies for Improved Environmental Performance, 2014 22.10.3 Some large-scale experimental resultsĪ HFCV was equipped with a TPRD with a vent pipe internal diameter of 4.2 mm. This analysis unveils not only the characteristics of the “revival” of an innovation after the disappointment, but also the strategies that have been followed to again gain visibility and come back to create the car of the future.ī.G. The chapter analyzes the main obstacles posed by the establishment of a network of refueling stations and examines the strategies that have been followed by countries to deal with these barriers in particular, in California, Japan, and Germany, where experience has shown how important cooperation is between actors (e.g., automakers, fuel suppliers, technology providers), as well as the support from public authorities to the installation of the early infrastructures. This chapter reviews the challenges raised by the investment in infrastructure after the previous “hype” about hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have the potential to address both the environmental and oil dependency problems in transportation, but the construction of an infrastructure is a major issue that remains to be solved. Bento, in Compendium of Hydrogen Energy, 2016 Abstract