Turbulent flame propagation in large unconfined H2/O2/N2 clouds

Jérôme Daubech (1) , Christophe Proust (1) , Guillaume Lecocq (1)

1 INERIS - Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques

Turbulence is a key aspect in hydrogen explosions. Unfortunately, only limited experimental data is available and the current understanding of flame turbulence interactions is too limited to permit safe predictions. New experimental data are presented in which the flame trajectory and pressure history are interpreted for unconfined explosions of H2/O2/N2 clouds of 7 m3. The intensity of the turbulence is varied between 0 and 5 m/s and the integral scale of the turbulence is on the order of 10 cm which is at least an order of magnitude larger than lab scale.

Domains: Environmental Sciences; Environmental Engineering

Jérôme Daubech, Christophe Proust, Guillaume Lecocq. Turbulent flame propagation in large unconfined H2/O2/N2 clouds. 6. International conference on hydrogen safety (ICHS 2015), Oct 2015, Yokohama, Japan. ⟨ineris-01863832⟩