Overview
- Offers readers essential insights into the current approval requirements and relevant safety assessment methods for gas cylinders, with a focus on composite cylinders for storing compressed natural gas and hydrogen
- Discusses safety as a property of service life and as an issue of degradation
- Addresses problems including the quality of production, degradation prediction using destructive sample tests parallel to operation, retesting periods and correcting for under- and overestimates of safe lifetime
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Featuring a detailed analysis of current approval requirements and the relevant safety assessment methods for gas cylinders in general and with main focus on composite cylinders for storing compressed natural gas and hydrogen, this book demonstrates how current regulations and standards limit the ability to reduce cost and weight. Based on this data, it then highlights the potential offered by the proposed approval procedure based on probabilistic safety assessment
After addressing the economic potential of probabilistic safety assessments, the book details working procedures and improving cycles and (slow) bursts as methods for assessing residual strength. It then discusses methods for statistically evaluating test data, as well as sample- size and distribution-character considerations. A definition of sample strength is elaborated in terms of the performance sheets developed by the author. On this basis, it discusses safety as a property of service life and interpreted as an
issue of degradation, and explores aspects of artificial aging for simulating the end-of-life reliability level. Lastly, the book considers control and inspection aspects: quality of production, degradation prediction using destructive sample tests parallel to operation, retesting periods and correcting for under- and overestimates of safe lifetime.
Presented in schematic diagrams, illustrations and tables, this information enables manufacturers and operators to use this new approach in practice and supports the improvement of current regulations and standards.
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Book Title: Safety Assessment of Composite Cylinders for Gas Storage by Statistical Methods
Book Subtitle: Potential for Design Optimisation Beyond Limits of Current Regulations and Standards
Authors: Georg W. Mair
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49710-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49708-2Published: 29 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84220-2Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49710-5Published: 10 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 369
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 231 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Storage, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials, Light Construction, Steel Construction, Timber Construction