Re:Hyundai Nexo sets new world record 887.5 km travelled on ...
by JimTheMan on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @02:37AM
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I work with a guy who was involved in a near miss incident with these cannisters. They are not risk free, although you could argue that the accidents are rare and potentially worth the risk?
https://www.busnews.com.au/industry-news/1201/gas-bus-explos...
https://www.ctif.org/news/cause-stockholm-cng-bus-explosion-...
https://hal-ineris.archives-ouvertes.fr/ineris-00976180/docu...
“More than a gasoline bomb, hopefully. Gasoline is more dangerous.”
Citation needed. How is gasoline more dangerous? While gasoline is very dangerous, gasoline is a liquid and will not burn until vaporized; Gasoline is dangerous because it vaporizes quickly. H2 is already a gas and has a ridiculously low spark energy. Furthermore H2 is under pressure.
Gas does have a lower auto-ignition T than H2, that’s no fun, but overall H2 scores worse than gasoline.
“Do you ride on a CNG city bus?”
CNG stands for Compressed Natural Gas; i.e. methane. Methane is a lot easier and safer to use than H2 because it:
- Packs a lot more energy vs. P so the tanks don’t have to be as strong - Doesn’t embrittle the container - Much higher spark energy (in fact, CH4 is kinda hard to light) - Smaller flammability range (i.e. mixture with air that will ignite) - lower auto-ignition T
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammability_limit