Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of Hydrogen. Part 4. Hydrogen safety.

By Bjorn Fehrm

August 14, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our series on hydrogen as an energy store for airliners we are closing in on the design problems for a hydrogen-fueled airliner.

One of the aspects we must understand before discussion aircraft solutions are the safety aspects of hydrogen as a fuel in aircraft. Another is the requirements for the storage of liquid hydrogen, LH2.

Figure 1. The Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst in May 1937. Source: Wikipedia.

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