Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are expected to come into widespread use in the near future. Accordingly, manyhydrogen carrying vehicles will begin to pass through tunnels. It is therefore important to predict whetherrisk from leaked hydrogen accidents in tunnels can be avoided. CFD simulation was carried out on diffusionof leaked hydrogen in tunnels. Three areas of tunnels were chosen for study. One is the typical longitudinaland lateral areas of tunnels, and the others are underground ventilation facilities and electrostatic dustcollectors which were simulated with an actual tunnel. The amount of hydrogen leaked was 60m3(approximately 5.08 kg), which corresponds to the amount necessary for future fuel cell vehicles to achievetheir desired running distance. Analytical periods were the time after leaks began until regions of hydrogenabove the low flammability limit had almost disappeared, or thirty minutes. We found that leaked hydrogenis immediately carried away from leaking area under existing ventilation conditions. We also obtained basicdata on behavior of leaked hydrogen.
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