Analysis has shown that liquid hydrogen will be significantly safer than liquid methane and synjet, the other alternative fuels for aircraft. With LH2 there will be less risk of a major spill occurring in event of a crash in which passengers can survive the impact. If fuel is spilled, and assuming ignition does not occur, LH2 will not spread as far before it vaporizes, becomes buoyant, and dissipates in the atmosphere. If the spilled fuel is ignited,as will occur more than 80 percent of the time with any of the fuels, the resulting hydrogen fire will be of such short duration and will be confined to such a small area that the passenger survival rate can be expected to be much higher. (Wassmann)


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    Title :

    Will hydrogen-fueled aircraft be safe?


    Additional title:

    Werden Flugzeuge mit Wasserstoffantrieb sicher sein?


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1982


    Size :

    5 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 9 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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