STUDY ON FUEL LEAKAGE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM OF FUEL CELL VEHICLES

Recently, the fuel cell vehicles (FCV) are actively developed in the world. JARI has been done and examined the basic data for FCV standardization as the entrustment of NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) from 2000. The safety evaluation methods of fuel leakage at the normal usage condition and the collision condition were examined, so that FCV use the compressed hydrogen gas as the fuel source. The crash test was performed using the moving barrier as simulated FCV to examine the fuel leakage measuring method, as one of the safety evaluation methods of FCV. The fuel leakage detection was examined using the flow meter measurement method, as one of the fuel leakage measurement methods. The result showed that the sample fuel cell stack is not scattered, and that in the measurement with the flow meter, the gas leakage was undetectable. For the covering abstract see ITRD E825082.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  MINISTRY OF ECONOMY, TRADE AND INDUSTRY OF JAPAN

  1-3-1, KASUMIGASEKI, CHIYODA-KU
  TOKYO,   Japan  100-8901
• Authors:
  • MITSUISHI, H
  • Tamura, Y
  • SUZUKI, J
  • OSHINO, K
  • WATANABE, S
• Publication Date: 2003-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 6 p.
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF 18TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON THE ENHANCED SAFETY OF VEHICLES, HELD NAGOYA, JAPAN, 19-22 MAY 2003
  • Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternate fuels; Conferences; Design; Evaluation and assessment; Fuel cells; Fuels; Gases; Hydrogen; Pollutants; Vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 1315: Battery; 8525: Conference; 9011: Design (overall design); 2442: Emission; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 3850: Fuel; 6734: Gas; 7187: Hydrogen; 2417: Renewable energy; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Design; Energy; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00987379
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 3 2005 12:00AM