Advances in Hydrogen Safety
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A5: Hydrogen Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 19725
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Concern for global warming and climate change has shifted the philosophy of energy production from economic deployment to clean and sustainable utilization. In this regard, hydrogen is deemed as one of strong clean energy candidates that can eliminate CO2 emission and other harmful byproducts. Numerous technical developments are underway to produce, store, and transport hydrogen to compete with conventional energy resources such as coal, natural gas, solar, wind, and nuclear energy.
Hydrogen is an apparently clean and attractive source of energy as long as its safety concerns can be eliminated. Unlike development of hydrogen energy techniques, however, the potential safety issues of hydrogen have not been addressed in sufficient detail. Hydrogen is very sensitive and explosive under a wide range of thermodynamic and structural conditions, under which various hydrogen combustion modes such as deflagration, deflagration-to-detonation, and detonation may develop. This potential threat is expected to hinder its practical employment to the public domain if the foregoing issues are not sufficiently resolved.
This Special Issue, therefore, seeks to contribute to resolving the safety issues associated with hydrogen energy. Suggested topics may include research on various aspects of hydrogen combustion risk, such as flammability limit, peak flame temperature, and prediction of combustion modes in a local and global system domain. We invite any studies relevant to the safety of hydrogen in terms of regulatory policy, technical assessment, analytical modeling, as well as innovative concepts to improve the safety in utilizing hydrogen energy.
Prof. Dr. Sung Joong Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Prediction and modeling of lower and upper flammability limit
- Experimental and numerical study on hydrogen combustion modes: deflagration, deflagration-to-detonation (DDT), detonation
- Modeling and simulation of laminar and turbulent flame propagation
- Safety and economic production of hydrogen using electrochemical and thermochemical processes
- Regulatory frame making to improve the safety culture on hydrogen applications
- Review and issue reports on hydrogen safety in various disciplines.
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