Fire and explosion accidents often occur in storage tanks leading to great economic loss and serious casualties during the working, operation and maintenance. This paper established a reduced-scale storage tank experimental system, and then the explosion characteristics of gasoline-air mixture in storage tank were studied. The experimental results show that several parameters (such as concentra...

Hydrogen has been attracting attention as a fuel in the transportation sector to achieve carbon neutrality. storage liquid form is preferred locomotives, ships, drones, and aircraft, because these require high power but have limited space. However, hydrogen must be cryogenic state, wherein thermal insulation core problem. Inner materials, including glass bubbles, multi-layer (MLI), vacuum, vapo...

The Space Shuttle Integrated Main Propulsion System (IMPS) consists of the External Tank (ET), Orbiter Main Propulsion System (MPS), and Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs). The IMPS is tasked with the storage, conditioning, distribution, and combustion of cryogenic liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LO2) propellants to provide first and second stage thrust for achieving orbital velocity. ...

Abstract Phase change materials (PCMs) applied to photovoltaic (PV) panels are a promising solution recover the large share of energy from incident radiation, not converted into electricity. PCMs can store huge amount energy, exploiting solid-liquid phase change, which occurs at nearly constant temperature. In addition, reducing temperature PV panel increases its electric conversion efficiency....