Stationary Flat Steel Ribbon Wound Vessels for Storage of High Pressure Hydrogen

High pressure gaseous hydrogen (HPGH₂) storage offers the simplest solution in terms of infrastructure requirements and has become the most popular and highly developed method. HPGH₂ storage vessel is the key equipment for HPGH₂ storage system. China issued the first national standard on HPGH₂ storage vessel named “stationary flat steel ribbon wound vessels for storage of high pressure hydrogen” in 2011. Some crucial technical points are involved in this standard, such as material selection, design method for the shell’s thickness, mehod for determining the winding parameters and detection techniques for the attaching quality between the flat steel ribbon layers. In this paper, a brief introduction is given to the aforementioned technical points.