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Cryogenic Hydrogen Jet and Flame for Clean Energy Applications: Progress and Challenges
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Zhaoxin Ren
Energies, Volume: 16, Issue: 11, Start page: 4411
Swansea University Authors:
Jac Clarke, Wulf Dettmer , Zhaoxin Ren
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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/en16114411
Abstract
Industries across the world are making the transition to net-zero carbon emissions, as government policies and strategies are proposed to mitigate the impact of climate change on the planet. As a result, the use of hydrogen as an energy source is becoming an increasingly popular field of research, p...
| Published in: | Energies |
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| ISSN: | 1996-1073 |
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MDPI AG
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65250 |
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Industries across the world are making the transition to net-zero carbon emissions, as government policies and strategies are proposed to mitigate the impact of climate change on the planet. As a result, the use of hydrogen as an energy source is becoming an increasingly popular field of research, particularly in the aviation sector, where an alternative, green, renewable fuel to the traditional hydrocarbon fuels such as kerosene is essential. Hydrogen can be stored in multiple ways, including compressed gaseous hydrogen, cryo-compressed hydrogen and cryogenic liquid hydrogen. The infrastructure and storage of hydrogen will play a pivotal role in the realisation of large-scale conversion from traditional fuels, with safety being a key consideration. This paper provides a review on previous work undertaken to study the characterisation of both unignited and ignited hydrogen jets, which are fundamental phenomena for the utilisation of hydrogen. This includes work that focuses on the near-field flow structure, dispersion in the far-field, ignition and flame characteristics with multi-physics. The safety considerations are also included. The theoretical models and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) multiphase and reactive flow approaches are discussed. Then, an overview of previous experimental work is provided, before focusing the review on the existing computational results, with comparison to experiments. Upon completion of this review, it is highlighted that the complex near-field physics and flow phenomena are areas lacking in research. The near-field flow properties and characteristics are of significant importance with respect to the ignition and combustion of hydrogen. |
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cryogenic hydrogen; heat transfer; multiphase flow; reacting flow; turbulent flow; experiment; numerical simulation; computational fluid dynamics |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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This research received no external funding. |
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11 |
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4411 |