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The paper provides a summary of safety characteristics of hydrogen and hydrogen fuel gases. The inves-tigations focus on water electrolysis, the feeding of hydrogen into the natural gas grid and the use ofhydrogen for the fermentation process in biogas plants. The safety characteristics of hydrogen such as avery low minimum ignition energy, very large explosion range and high flame velocity with the resultingrapid pressure increase of hydrogen explosions are of particular importance for explosion protection andthey differ strongly from those of natural gas. Explosion ranges of hydrogen-methane-carbon dioxidemixtures have been measured for the use of hydrogen in biomethane production. The paper also showsand discusses explosion ranges of hydrogen and hydrogen-natural gas mixtures. Pressure and tempera-ture dependencies of the explosion limits of mixtures were investigated. Furthermore, pressure rise rates(KGvalues) were measured with regard to constructive explosion protection. The maximum experimen-tal safe gaps were determined for the classification of the mixtures and assignment to explosion groupsaccording to the European ATEX directives. It was found that admixture of 10% hydrogen to natural gashas only a minor influence on the safety characteristics of gas explosions.
The flammable hydrogen-blended methane–air and natural gas–air mixtures raise specific safety and environmental issues in the industry and transportation; therefore, their explosion characteristics such as the explosion limits, explosion pressures, and rates of pressure rise have significant importance from a safety point of view. At the same time, the laminar burning velocities are the most useful parameters for practical applications and in basic studies for the validation of reaction mechanisms and modeling turbulent combustion. In the present study, an experimental and numerical study of the effect of hydrogen addition on the laminar burning velocity (LBV) of methane–air and natural gas–air mixtures was conducted, using mixtures with equivalence ratios within 0.90 and 1.30 and various hydrogen fractions rH within 0.0 and 0.5. The experiments were performed in a 14 L spherical vessel with central ignition at ambient initial conditions. The LBVs were calculated from p(t) data, determined in accordance with EN 15967, by using only the early stage of flame propagation. The results show that hydrogen addition determines an increase in LBV for all examined binary flammable mixtures. The LBV variation versus the fraction of added hydrogen, rH, follows a linear trend only at moderate hydrogen fractions. The further increase in rH results in a stronger variation in LBV, as shown by both experimental and computed LBVs. Hydrogen addition significantly changes the thermal diffusivity of flammable CH4–air or NG–air mixtures, the rate of heat release, and the concentration of active radical species in the flame front and contribute, thus, to LBV variation.