Liquid Hydrogen Management and Application

Dear Colleagues,

Liquid hydrogen is a traditional carrier of energy as well as a competitive hydrogen storage scheme. “Traditional” means it has been widely used in human aerospace explorations for over 60 years. Owing to its incomparable specific impulse advantage, liquid hydrogen has been selected as the launch vehicle fuel since 1960s, and a lot of aerospace missions have been implemented on the basis of successful management and application of liquid hydrogen. In this field, great techniques of liquid hydrogen have been accumulated and could be relied on for civil and commercial applications. In modern society, hydrogen attracts great attention in the energy area due to its inherent clean and high-energy density features, and techniques in the hydrogen chain involving hydrogen production, storage, transfer, and applications are urgently needed and are being developed. In this field, liquid hydrogen still plays a vital role, especially in hydrogen storage and transfer. The growing requirements of liquid hydrogen in the aerospace and civil energy fields have pushed forward research in the area of mechanisms and modeling, high-efficient storage, reliable transfer, and safety management associated with liquid hydrogen.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to theory, modeling, application, management, safety in the complete liquid hydrogen chain.

Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:

• Theoretical analysis and modeling of liquid hydrogen systems;
• Hydrogen liquefaction;
• Liquid hydrogen storage and transfer;
• Liquid hydrogen devices including heat exchanger, vessel, valve, sensors, and so forth;
• Liquid hydrogen thermal insulation techniques;
• Liquid hydrogen safety techniques;
• liquid hydrogen applications in transportation, industrial, commercial, and aerospace.

Dr. Lei Wang
Guest Editor

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