TY - CONF A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Grunewald, Thomas T1 - Experimental Study on the ignition of hydrogen containing atmospheres by mechanical impacts T2 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrogen Safety 2023 N2 - Mechanical friction, impact or abrasion is one of the ignition sources that must be avoided in hazardous zones with explosive atmospheres. The effectiveness of mechanical impacts as ignition source is dependent from several parameters including the minimum ignition energy of the explosive atmosphere, the properties of the material pairing, the kinetic impact energy or the impact velocity. By now there is no standard procedure to determine the effectiveness of mechanical impacts as ignition source. In this work the effectiveness of mechanical impacts with defined and reproducible kinetic impact energy as ignition source for hydrogen containing atmospheres was studied systematically in dependence from the inhomogeneous material pairing considering materials with practical relevance like stainless steel, low alloy steel, concrete, and non-iron-metals. It was found that ignition can be avoided, if non-iron metals are used in combination with different metallic materials, but in combination with concrete even the impact of non-iron-metals can be an effective ignition source if the kinetic impact energy is not further limited. Moreover, the consequence of hydrogen admixture to natural gas on the effectiveness of mechanical impacts as ignition source was studied. In many cases ignition of atmospheres containing natural gas by mechanical impacts is rather unlikely. No influence could be observed for admixtures up to 25% hydrogen and even more. The results are mainly relevant in the context of repurposing the natural gas grid or adding hydrogen to the natural gas grid. T2 - International Conference on Hydrogen Safety (ICHS) 2023 CY - Quebec City, Canada DA - 19.09.2023 KW - Explosion protection KW - Hydrogen transport in pipelines KW - ATEX KW - Hazardous areas KW - Mechanical sparks KW - Ignition source PY - 2023 SN - 979-12-210-4274-0 SP - 82 EP - 93 AN - OPUS4-58515 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -