A review of hydrogen-air cloud explosions: The fundamentals, overpressure prediction methods, and influencing factors

Q Hu, X Zhang, H Hao - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is one of the most promising renewable energies that has been observing rapid
development over the past years. Recent accidental explosion incidents and the associated …

Numerical investigation of the mechanism behind the deflagration to detonation transition in homogeneous and inhomogeneous mixtures of H2-air in an obstructed …

MHS Saeid, J Khadem, S Emami - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2021 - Elsevier
The accidental release of hydrogen into enclosures can result in a flammable mixture with
concentration gradients and possible deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT). This …

Numerical analysis of hydrogen release, dispersion and combustion in a tunnel with fuel cell vehicles using all-speed CFD code GASFLOW-MPI

Y Li, J Xiao, H Zhang, W Breitung, J Travis… - international journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrogen energy is expanding world-widely in recent years, while hydrogen safety issues
have drawn considerable attention. It is widely accepted that accidental hydrogen release in …

Research on hydrogen risk prediction in probability safety analysis for severe accidents of nuclear power plants

SUN Jing, SHI Xueyao, LIN Shengsheng… - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The risk of hydrogen combustion after the Fukushima nuclear accident has always been a
topic of concern for the nuclear power industry. In the hydrogen risk assessment of …

3D simulation of hydrogen distributions affected by a passive auto-catalytic recombiner in an oxygen-starved condition

JS Park, Y Kim, K Lim - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we simulated the change in hydrogen behavior according to a Passive
Autocatalytic Recombiner (PAR) under oxygen depletion conditions and compared the …

Effect of composition gradient on detonation initiation in fuel-rich hydrogen-air mixtures in an obstructed channel

J Fan, M Li, H Xiao - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations were performed to study the effect of composition gradient and
obstacle arrangement on detonation initiation in fuel-rich hydrogen-air mixtures. A third …

Analysis of the gases distribution during a severe accident by coupling the MELCOR and FLUENT in WWER1000 containment

R Gharari, H Kazeminejad, NM Kojouri… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is necessary to evaluate the released gases distribution (especially hydrogen) to avoid
hydrogen accumulation and maintain containment integrity against the pressure loads due …

Numerical investigation of self-sustaining modes of 2D planar detonations under concentration gradients in hydrogen–oxygen mixtures

Q Song, Y Han, W Cao - international journal of hydrogen energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Self-sustaining modes of detonations in non-uniform mixtures for hydrogen and oxygen are
numerically studied. Concentration gradients are set vertical to the direction of detonation …

A review on PAR operating characteristics and impact on hydrogen behaviors in containment of PWRs

T Man, Y Feng, X Zhou, Z Guo, M Ding - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2025 - Elsevier
Passive autocatalytic recombiners (PARs), owing to its excellent hydrogen removal
capability and passive characteristic, have been widely utilized to prevent the potential …

Application of a severe accident code to the sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of hydrogen production in the WWER1000/V446

R Gharari, H Kazeminejad, NM Kojouri… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
An uncertainty analysis based on the Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) method and
MELCOR code for hydrogen production during a SA in WWER1000 nuclear reactor is …