A flow visualization facility for hydrogen explosion safety research

申请资金用于氢气爆炸安全性研究的流动可视化激波管装置。氢是最环保的燃料，水是唯一的燃烧产物。这使得它在运输部门的广泛应用非常有吸引力。然而，它的易燃性在其生产、销售、储存和消费者使用过程中可能导致灾难性的爆炸场景。由于使用氢气的新颖性，目前在加拿大和世界范围内缺乏政府安全法规。由于事故情景范围很广，而且进行一套详尽的安全试验不现实，国际社会采取的共同办法是开发必要的建模工具，以处理涉及氢气的爆炸情景。拟议的设施将允许通过实验研究与氢气爆炸安全相关的问题，并满足PI和其他参与加拿大氢气研究的爆炸科学家的需求，通过控制良好的实验室实验验证他们的数值模拟。

Funds are requested for a flow visualization shock-tube facility for hydrogen explosion safety research. Hydrogen is the most environmentally-friendly fuel, with water as the sole product of combustion. This makes it very attractive for widespread usage in the transportation sector. However, its ease of ignition can lead to disastrous explosion scenarios during its production, distribution, storage and consumer usage. Due to the novelty of using hydrogen, governmental safety regulations are presently lacking in Canada and worldwide. Because of the wide range of accident scenarios and impracticality of conducting an exhaustive set of safety tests, the common approach adopted by the international community is to develop modeling tools necessary to address explosion scenarios involving hydrogen gas. The proposed facility will permit to study problems associated with hydrogen explosion safety experimentally and address the needs of the PI and other explosion scientists involved in the study of hydrogen research in Canada to validate their numerical simulations using well controlled laboratory experiments.