
doi: 10.3390/fire8080328
Mixing hydrogen into natural gas pipelines for transportation is an effective solution to the imbalance between the supply and demand of hydrogen energy. Studying the influence of bent pipes in hydrogen-mixed natural gas explosion accidents can enhance the safety of hydrogen energy storage and transportation. Through experiments and LES, the influence of pipe spacing configuration on the vented explosion of this mixed gas in pipes with a large length-to-diameter ratio was analyzed. The maximum explosion pressure (Pmax) of the straight pipe is 21.7 kPa and the maximum pressure rise rate ((dp/dt)max) is 1.8 MPa/s. After adding the double elbow, Pmax increased to 65.2 kPa and (dp/dt)max increased to 3.7 MPa/s. By increasing the distance (D1) from bent pipe-1 to the ignition source, the flame shape changes from “finger-shaped” to “concave-shaped” to “wrinkled-shaped.” When D1 is at its minimum, the explosion reaction is the most intense. However, as D1 increases, each characteristic parameter decreases linearly and the flame propagation speed significantly reduces, the flame area decays more severely, and the flame acceleration effect is also suppressed. When the distance between the two bent pipes (D2) was gradually increased, the flame transformed from “finger-shaped” to “tongue-shaped” to “wrinkled-shaped”. The flame area curve exhibited a unique evolutionary process of “hitting bottom” to “rebounding” to “large-scale flame backflow”. This paper explores the development process of various characteristic parameters, which is of great reference value for preventing explosions in hydrogen-blended natural gas pipelines in underground pipe galleries.
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