To support the UK’s transition to a hydrogen economy, the National Composites Centre (NCC) is supporting a UK-based tank testing program designed to optimise tank design and construction.
The result is a design tool that optimises hydrogen cryogenic tank design based on a customer’s unique requirements.
The tool is designed around critical parameters such as hydrogen mass, boil-off rate, and dormancy – the amount of time from the refuelling of a tank to the need to vent a gas pressure build-up, if the aircraft was stationary overnight.
With no clear existing industry standards for aerospace cryogenic tanks, the ability to analyse a range of designs is essential.
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