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Hydrogen System Safety Features and Properties

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What happens here

Hydrogen, being the lightest and smallest molecular structure, tends to escape through traditional fuel lines. To prevent this, specialized quarter-inch wall stainless steel fuel lines are used to maintain the integrity of the hydrogen system. Additionally, the system incorporates two safety valves that automatically vent if internal pressure becomes too high. When ignited, hydrogen burns cleanly and rapidly, typically self-extinguishing after rising quickly into the atmosphere. This underscores the project's commitment to safety and reliability, especially given the common misconception surrounding hydrogen's dangers (e.g., the Hindenburg, which was due to paint, not hydrogen).

Goal: Implement robust safety measures and highlight hydrogen's unique properties.

Tools and materials

  • Safety Valves — Automatically venting excess hydrogen pressure
  • Hydrogen Gas — Fuel for testing and operation

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as fast as it can travel right if I use traditional like stainless fuel lines like we use in cars or hot rods it will permeate right through it yeah to keep that hydrogen inside a stainless line it has to be quarter inch wall yeah right so every piece you have to look at that way that tank went full is 350 bars so 5074 PSI yeah okay it's got two safety valves if it were to actually have something happen it'll Bend itself if you set hydrogen on fire it it we did a test with Bosch where we created a hydrogen leak and actually lit it it goes up so fast it mixes where the atmosphere put itself yeah right so there's a lot of misinformation everybody thinks about the Hindenburg you know because that was the paint that was burning not the stuff inside wasn't it well in Hindenburg they took a cloth balloon because they needed it light but the hydrogen permeated right through the cloth so they used seven chemicals and then coated it with aluminum so when they hit the power line the aluminum create a short blew a hole through it there are very few pictures that I had when that happened to the Hindenburg but the hydrogen you can see it escape and it goes straight up right big flame but it puts itself out it burns three times as fast as gasoline as far as we know no one into Hindenburg died from the fire they died from a crashing it got a lot of bad press still the number one question that people ask me today right yeah Hindenburg but this tank is DLT approved been through all the testing with the Department of Transportation well you mentioned the buses and I think about we were in California not long ago to do that video they'd think and they actually have public buses sure in L.A that run on hydrogen and they probably use those exact tanks they do yeah they make them in different sizes obviously but this one is uh it holds just over three kilograms of hydrogen yeah so and it's been that way for a while I know there's a from where edelbrock's building was in Torrance down the street there was a Shale hydrogen station it's been there for years yeah yeah it probably at least five or six more more years California is the only state currently where they have commercial punks that you just pull up to and buy hydrogen there's a lot going on with it they're building a bunch of them and it's coming I know in this channel we typically do history videos this is more current but I believe that this is history in the making like we said before a lot of the popular videos on…

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