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Bunding of Large LH2 Spills Cover

Bunding of Large LH2 Spills

Open Access
|Dec 2025

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Figure 1

Example of bunding for liquid storage tanks, image source (South Australian Guidelines).

Figure 2

Potential consequences of LH2 release; elements of considered scenario highlighted with grey background.

Figure 3

Scenario with initial spilling phase (left) and evaporation phase (right).

Figure 4

Iso-concentration profiles of the pre-mixed cloud of NASA spill test #6 (Witcofski and Chirivella, 1984).

Table 1

Maximum overpressure of fireball with flammable mass mf as a function of the distance R from the centre of the fireball.

Figure 5

Hazard distance as function of pool surface area and limiting pressure load.

Figure 6

LH2 storage at HRS without bund walls (left); bund walls design for the smallest pool surface area (right).

Figure 7

Double containment tank for LNG; image source EN14620.

Language: English
Page range: 174 - 183
Submitted on: Aug 1, 2025
Accepted on: Nov 2, 2025
Published on: Dec 15, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2025 Thomas Jordan, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Stuart Hawksworth, published by KIT Scientific Publishing
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.