Hydrogen Safety and Combustion in Energy Systems
A special issue of Hydrogen (ISSN 2673-4141).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 169
Editors
Interests: hydrogen safety; hydrogen-blended fuels; combustion dynamics; heat transfer analysis; fire risk assessment
Interests: heat transfer; hydrogen safety; ventilation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: hydrogen accident prevention; storage and transportation safety; explosion mechanism; hydrogen tank failure
Interests: hydrogen safety; gas explosion protection; vented explosion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydrogen is widely recognized as a key clean energy carrier for the transition toward low-carbon and sustainable energy systems. However, its intrinsic properties, including wide flammability limits, low ignition energy, and high diffusivity, introduce significant safety challenges across production, storage, transportation, and end-use applications. In particular, accidental hydrogen releases may lead to combustion and explosion hazards, posing serious risks to modern energy infrastructure.
Despite significant advances in hydrogen technologies, there remains a need for a deeper understanding of hydrogen safety and combustion phenomena under realistic and complex conditions. Key scientific challenges include hydrogen leakage and dispersion, ignition and flame evolution, turbulent combustion behavior, and fire and explosion dynamics in practical energy systems. Improving knowledge of these processes is essential for developing effective risk mitigation strategies and ensuring the safe deployment of hydrogen-based energy technologies.
This Special Issue aims to advance research on hydrogen safety and combustion in energy systems under realistic and complex conditions, bridging fundamental mechanisms and engineering applications.
We invite original research articles and reviews addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Hydrogen leakage and dispersion;
- Hydrogen combustion and explosion phenomena;
- Turbulent combustion and flame dynamics;
- Jet fire behavior and flame evolution;
- Fire and explosion prevention and mitigation;
- Quantitative risk assessment of hydrogen systems;
- Accidental release and hazard analysis;
- Hydrogen storage and transportation safety;
- Hydrogen end-use safety applications;
- Experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies of hydrogen safety phenomena.
We look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Zhenhua Wang
Dr. Lu He
Dr. Yunhao Li
Dr. Yong Cao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogen safety
- combustion and explosion
- turbulent combustion
- jet fire
- leakage and dispersion modeling
- fire and explosion prevention
- quantitative risk assessment
- hydrogen storage and transportation
- end-use applications
- hydrogen energy systems
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