Investigation on Cool-Down Behavior and Thermal Stress of Cryogenic Tank During Saturated Hydrogen Gas Filling Process[J]. 2014, 48(5): 1-7.
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Investigation on Cool-Down Behavior and Thermal Stress of Cryogenic Tank During Saturated Hydrogen Gas Filling Process[J]. 2014, 48(5): 1-7.DOI: 10.7652/xjtuxb201405001.
Investigation on Cool-Down Behavior and Thermal Stress of Cryogenic Tank During Saturated Hydrogen Gas Filling Process
A numerical study is performed on the cool-down behavior and thermal stress of a cryogenic tank during the saturated hydrogen gas filling process. CFD simulation is carried out to obtain the flow and temperature distributions inside the tank and the temperature distribution of the tank wall under a specific filling rate. Then the flow and cooling characteristics of the tank during the filling process are analyzed. The thermal stress in the tank wall under three different constraints of the inlet and outlet is calculated with unidirectional fluid-solid coupling method
and the spatial distribution and transient behavior of the thermal stress are revealed. In addition
the rationality of applying elastic supports to the inlet and outlet is demonstrated
and the integrated stress in the tank wall is calculated with the pressure variation in the tank taken into account. Numerical results show that the filling process can be divided into three steps
where the flow and temperature distributions inside the tank are governed by the forced convection from the inlet or the natural convection near the wall in the first and second steps
and by both of them in the third step. The maximum thermal stress appears at the inlet and outlet of the tank under any of the three constraints. For radial elastic support on the inlet and outlet
the maximum thermal stress increases gradually to a steady value and takes up about 15% of the maximum integrated stress in steady state.
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